Bir Mahali (or Birmahle) is a village in the eastern part of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, south of the Syrian Kurdish enclave Kobani and near the town of Sarrin.
The fishing and farming village on the banks of Euphrates is predominantly Arab-populated with some 4000 inhabitants.
United States led airstrike 2015
Between 30 April and 1 May 2015, air strikes led by the United States, said to target the Islamic State, killed at least 64 civilians: 31 minors, 20 women and 13 men.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described the event as a "massacre" and said the attack on the village constitutes the highest civilian losses from an attack by US and allied Arab forces since the launch of their air campaign against ISIS on September 23, 2014.
A United States Central Command spokesperson commented on 2 May 2015 "We currently have no information to corroborate allegations that coalition airstrikes resulted in civilian casualties. Regardless, we take all allegations seriously and will look into them further."