2017 Mosul airstrike

2017 Mosul airstrike
Part of the Battle of Mosul
Iraqi Army firing at ISIL positions in western Mosul, 17 March 2017
2017 Mosul airstrike (Iraq)
Location	Mosul, Iraq
Coordinates	36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13
Date	17 March 2017 (2017-03-17)
Attack type	Airstrike
Deaths	200-300[1][2][3][4]
Injured	Unknown
Perpetrators	United States

The 2017 Mosul airstrike, was an American bombing in the al-Aghawat al-Jadidah neighborhood in western Mosul on 17 March 2017 that killed between 200 and 300 civilians.^[1][2][3][4] The incident was the largest single death toll inflicted by a coalition air strike since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. forces.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][excessive citations]}

Some residents of the al-Jadida neighborhood say the airstrike hit an explosive-filled truck, detonating a blast that collapsed buildings packed with families.^[12] A Pentagon investigation concluded that a US aircraft delivered a single precision-guided bomb (GBU-38 JDAM) with the intention of targeting two ISIL snipers on the second storey of a structure in al-Jadida neighborhood. But the bomb also caused a large cache of ISIL explosives to detonate, leading to the catastrophic collapse of the building that had civilians sheltering downstairs, officials said.^{[13][14][15][16]}