Recent Work
11 Jun, 2025
Collection

Trump’s military record

Documenting civilian harm in the president’s second term
4 Mar, 2025
Film

Three stories of displacement

Two videos of the same Gaza road – before the war and during a ceasefire
14 Mar, 2025
Policy

Major breakthrough in Dutch military accountability

Findings released to parliament follows multiyear engagement
19 Apr, 2025
Award

Airwars wins Overseas Press Club of America award

Judges praised the “innovation brought to the field of digital storytelling”

Documenting civilian harm

Channelling the power of open source techniques to document harm in conflict by listening to civilians' voices

Casualty Recording →

The Airwars archive documents the deaths of 75,162 civilians in 12,144 incidents: a unique public record of harm from 11 conflicts

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Investigating those responsible

Ground-breaking investigations pushing civilian harm onto the international agenda and identifying perpetrators

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What the chats signal about Trump’s Yemen bombing campaign
April 3, 2025
The Killings They Tweeted
October 9, 2024
One Name, Two Lists
July 24, 2024
The bombing of Quala 4131
March 7, 2024
Killed in a press vest – evidence of Israeli responsibility for attack on journalists in Lebanon
December 7, 2023
A year of the Shahed
September 8, 2023
The hidden casualties of Britain’s war
March 21, 2023

Pushing for change

Using the evidence base to push governments, militaries and others to better protect civilians in conflict

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Tools

Cutting-edge tools to enhance transparency, accountability, and civilian protection
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Open Source Munitions Portal

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Civilian Protection Monitor

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Airwars News

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19 Apr, 2025
Update
Palestinian territories

Airwars wins Overseas Press Club of America award

Airwars’ documentation and investigations into civilian harm in Gaza won a prestigious Overseas Press Club of America award on Thursday. The Kim Wall Award recognised the “best story or series of stories in any medium on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques.” In a statement the judges, chaired by Mary Rajkumar, Pulitzer-winning […]
15 Apr, 2025
Policy, Update

Airwars and PAX launch major new assessment tool for state efforts to protect civilians

Civilian Protection Monitor offers new framework to assess how states protect civilians from their military actions

In the News

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4 Jun, 2025
Citation

Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime

Human Rights Watch issued a June 2025 investigation into the U.S. bombing of the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, concluding that the strike should be investigated as a war crime. Airwars was consulted during the HRW research, which cited Airwars’ original documentation of the incident in which at least 84 victims of the strike […]
26 May, 2025
Citation

‘Nothing left to bomb’: Yemen’s civilians bear brunt of US airstrikes on Houthis

The Guardian cited Airwars in a May 2025 piece documenting civilian harm from the United States’ spring military campaign targeting the Houthis.