At least 23 Afghan civilians killed in US air strike – UN
A United Nations investigation has found that at least 23 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in a US airstrike in...
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Russia and US air strikes ‘caused mass civilian deaths in Syria’
Air strikes by Russia and a US-led coalition killed civilians in Syriaon a large scale last year, while the Assad government carried out unlawful chemical weapon...
Turkish forces shell convoy headed to Syria’s Afrin region
The Turkish army struck a convoy entering Syria’s Kurdish-held Afrin region, which Ankara said carried fighters and weapons but Kurdish forces said was made up...
Saudi-led air strikes ‘kill at least 20 Yemeni civilians’
At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials...
Civilians flee as Iraqi forces attack last IS redoubt in Mosul
Iraqi government forces attacked Islamic State’s remaining redoubt in Mosul‘s Old City on Friday, a day after formally declaring the end of the insurgents’ self-declared caliphate...
Philippines says beheaded civilians found in rebel-held town
Five decapitated civilians were found in a Philippine city occupied by Islamist rebels on Wednesday, the military said, warning the number of residents killed by...
Air strike in east Syria kills 35 civilians – Observatory
An air strike on Thursday evening killed at least 35 civilians, including family members of Islamic State fighters, in al-Mayadin, a town held by the...
Drone strike kills 3 civilians, four militants in Yemen – residents
Three Yemeni civilians were killed when a drone attacked four suspected al Qaeda militants travelling in a vehicle in the southern part of the country,...
The vanishing civilians of Aleppo
Did it cross your mind occasionally, in the past week, to wonder where all of the “250,000 civilians trapped in eastern Aleppo” have gone? As...
Truck bomb attack on soldiers kills 18 in southeast Turkey (Update 2)
Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a five-tonne truck bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near...
