Oct 07 Ukrainian village shattered by precision missile strike on cafe hosting fallen soldier’s wake By Hanna Arhirova, Lori Hinnant, Associated Press The Ukrainian village of Hroza has been plunged into mourning by a missile strike on a cafe that killed more than 50 people. Almost every household in the village had sent someone to a soldier’s wake that was held at… Continue reading
Oct 06 10-year-old boy and his grandmother killed in Russian missile attack in eastern Ukraine By Hanna Arhirova, Associated Press Officials said preliminary information indicated the Kremlin’s forces used two Iskander missiles in the attack, the same as in the previous day’s attack on the eastern village of Hroza that killed 51. Continue reading
Apr 23 Diplomats, foreign nationals flee violence in Sudan as citizens struggle to escape By Associated Press While world powers like the U.S. and Britain airlifted their diplomats from the capital of Khartoum, Sudanese desperately sought to flee the chaos. Many risked dangerous roads to seek safer spots or crossed the northern border into Egypt. Continue reading
Nov 03 How Russian soldiers ran a ‘cleansing’ operation in Bucha, Ukraine By Erika Kinetz, Oleksandr Stashevskyi, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Associated Press It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine. By nightfall, at least nine men would walk to their deaths at 144 Yablunska street, the nerve center of Russian violence that would shock the world. Continue reading
Aug 27 Deadly clashes kill 13 civilians in Libya’s capital By Samy Magdy, Associated Press Deadly clashes broke out Saturday in Libya's capital between militias backed by its two rival administrations, portending a return to violence amid a long political stalemate. Continue reading
Mar 01 Zelensky calls Russia’s deadly strike on center of Kharkiv a ‘war crime’ By Associated Press A Russia military strike on Tuesday hit the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least six people as it badly damaged the symbolic Soviet-era regional administration building. Continue reading
Sep 17 Kabul air strike killed 10 civilians including up to 7 children, Pentagon admits By Robert Burns, Associated Press The Pentagon announced Friday that an internal review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not an Islamic State extremist as first believed. Continue reading
Oct 06 Anger grows at civilian deaths by US, Afghan forces By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Increasing civilian deaths in stepped-up U.S. airstrikes and operations by Afghan forces highlight the conundrum the U.S. military and its Afghan allies face, 18 years into the war: How to hunt down their Islamic State group and Taliban enemies, while… Continue reading
Feb 24 UN: 3,804 Afghan civilians died last year, highest count ever By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press More civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year than in any of the previous nine years of the increasingly bloody conflict, according to a U.N. report released Sunday, which blamed the spike in deaths on increased suicide bombings by the… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch 7:16 ‘Systemic shortfalls’ obscure true civilian cost of U.S. airstrikes against ISIS The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria released its latest estimate of civilians killed by U.S. airstrikes since 2014. Over the past four years, 1,139 civilians were killed by accident. But how was this figure calculated, and is… Continue watching