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By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 03 February 2006 A wounded man is brought to a hospital after an early morning bomb attack, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq At least 16 people were killed in two car b
By Al Pessin Pentagon 26 June 2007 In the wake of a series of high-profile incidents in which U.S. and NATO attacks have killed Afghan civilians, a senior American officer with responsibility for both forces says allied procedures for avoiding civili
By Daniel Schearf Irbil 01 March 2008 The Iraqi government says the number of civilians who were killed rose by a third in February, reversing a six-month trend that came with security improvements. A U.S. military spokesman says violence is still do
By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 27 October 2006 watch Iraq US Casualties The number of American troops killed in Iraq this month continues to rise, reaching the highest monthly total in a year. U.S. military authorities say the most recent casualties
Fighting escalated in Gaza a day after an Israeli ground offensive into the Palestinian territory. Israel confirms one of its soldiers has been killed and 30 wounded, and medical officials in Gaza say more than 30 Palestinians have been killed since
The United Nations says the number of civilians killed during 2008 in Afghanistan rose 40 percent from the year before. The 2,118 civilians reported killed last year is the highest number since the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban government in
Red Cross officials are backing local reports that U.S.-led airstrikes in western Afghanistan earlier this week killed dozens of civilians. The U.S. military is sending investigators to the scene and President Hamid Karzai has pledged to take up the
Government security forces stormed a protest camp in the Yemeni capital Sana'a early Saturday. Protesters say at least one person was killed and at least 300 injured. At least two more people were reported killed during protests elsewhere in the capi
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday that his country is determined to carry on with its combat mission in Afghanistan despite a rise in casualties and skepticism in domestic opinion polls. Miliband discussed the Afghan situation
The Pentagon says no civilians were killed in an air strike Sunday in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan, which local officials say killed 27 people who were walking to a wedding. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. U.S. military officials
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 10 April 2007 Aid agencies and Somali elders are coming to terms with the after-effects of recent violence in Somalia's capital that has been described as the worst fighting since civil war broke out in 1991. Cathy Majtenyi
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 16 July 2006 Police and Zaka religious rescue workers wheel a dead Israeli from the site of a rocket attack by Hezbollah guerrillas at train station in Haifa, July 16, 2006 Israel's prime minister on Sunday threatened far-rea
By Meredith Buel Washington 08 May 2007 A U.S. military commander in Afghanistan has apologized for American Marines that killed and wounded innocent Afghan civilians following a suicide bombing earlier this year. VOA Correspondent Meredith Buel has
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 03 July 2007 NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the alliance must do everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties in Afghanistan. But he warned that NATO opponents in Afghanistan cannot be put on the
An Afghan government commission says a U.S. airstrike this week that American commanders claimed had targeted militants instead killed 47 civilians. The reports of civilian casualties come as American commanders say they are trying to counter the gr
When we are warned about the dangers of food, it usually relates to food allergies or food poisoning. The image of killer biscuits has never quite come into peoples minds. Millions of people reach for a biccy whenever they pour a cup of tea and it se
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 09 May 2007 Local officials in southern Afghanistan say an air strike has killed at least 21 civilians, including women and children. The U.S. military says it was fighting Taleban insurgents in the area, but it has not con