Wide-Area Impact Report
2 Mar 2016Yemen case study: bombing of the al-Asadi home
Zaid al-Asadi was killed by a falling concrete column. Two of Ali’s children inside the house, 18-month-old Buthanyal and seven-year-old Bilal, also died.
1 Mar 2016Case study: Mortar and other inaccurate weapon use on the Jordanian/Syrian border
At 1pm on the ninth day of Ramadan in 2015 – 5 June – a mortar hit the al-Horani coffee shop in the centre of Ramtha, Jordan.
1 Mar 2016Explosive weapons with large destructive radius: air-dropped bombs (the Mark 80 series and Paveway attachments)
Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen are thought to be making extensive use of aerial bombs with wide area impacts, including JDAM (GPS-guided) and Paveway (laserguided) aerial bombs.
26 Feb 2016Video – Wide-Area Impact: multiple -rocket launch systems in use in Ukraine
On 24 January 2015, a barrage of Grad rockets hit the sleepy streets of Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine. At least 30 people were killed in the blasts. This video highlights the harm.
26 Feb 2016Video – Wide-Area Impact: mortar fire on the Jordanian/Syrian border
AOAV’s field investigations in September 2015 charted 15 explosive weapon strikes that crossed the Syrian border into Jordan between 2012 and 2015. This video records their impact.
2 Feb 2016Video: air-dropped bombs in Yemen
In 2015, Yemen saw more civilian victims of air-dropped bombs than anywhere else in the world.
29 Jan 2016Journalist Iona Craig talks about Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen and their impact
In Yemen, 93% of victims of explosive weapons when used in populated areas have been civilians.