VILCHA, Ukraine — Thousands more civilians have fled Russia‘s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar fire, officials said Sunday. The intense battles have forced at least one Ukrainian unit to withdraw in the Kharkiv region, capitulating more land to Russian forces across […]
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces began a renewed ground assault in Ukraine‘s northeast, killing and injuring several people and forcing more than 1,700 civilians to evacuate from the Kharkiv region, officials said Saturday. Artillery, mortar, and aerial bombardments hit more than 30 different towns and villages, leaving at least three people dead and five others […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 100,000 people to flee north, a United Nations official said Friday. Israel‘s plans for a full-scale invasion of Rafah appear to be […]
BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike Sunday in the town of Mays al Jabal in south Lebanon killed four civilians and wounded several others, Lebanese state media and the town’s municipality reported. Lebanon‘s state-run National News Agency reported that the strike took place “while a number of the town’s residents were inspecting their homes and shops […]
Russian missile and drone strikes led to a 20% spike in Ukrainian civilian casualties in March versus the previous month, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said this month. U.N. monitors have verified that at least 604 civilians were killed or injured throughout Ukraine in March. The casualties were mainly due to attacks […]
Russian mercenaries from the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group working alongside Mali’s armed forces have killed dozens of civilians in the West African country since December. The killings include those from drone strikes during a wedding celebration and later a funeral in February that resulted in the death of at least 14 people, including four children, Human […]
It was a story that for Al Jazeera was too good to be true. In the end, that’s exactly what it proved to be. Al Jazeera, the Qatari-based news network, ran a shocking story about IDF soldiers raping women in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The same woman who made the rape allegation also […]
Musician Kid Rock was condemned on social media for urging Israel to threaten to kill tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians as part of an aggressive campaign to compel the release of hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. The Grammy winner (real name: Robert James Ritchie) made the remarks during a […]
In a phone call Thursday, President Joe Biden again cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against moving forward with a military operation in Rafah without a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians. Early the next day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to reject “international dictates” on a long-term resolution of Israel’s conflict with […]
NABATIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese state media reported Thursday, making the previous day the deadliest in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate for Wednesday’s strikes, which hit in the city of […]
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