Showing posts with label airstrikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airstrikes. Show all posts

Monday, February 29, 2016

UN chief calls for "prompt, impartial" probe into deadly airstrike on Yemeni market

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for "a prompt and impartial investigation" into the Saturday airstrike on a market in Yemen that killed at least 32 civilians.

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Pentagon Admits to Eight More Civilians Killed in Iraq, Syria Airstrikes

In a significant shift from Centcom’s long-standing policy of blanket refusals to admit to civilian deaths in airstrikes against ISIS targets, the Pentagon today issued a statement admitting to eight civilians killed in the second quarter of 2015 in three separate incidents.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

MSF condemns latest deadly strike on clinic in Yemen

A missile strike on a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Yemen killed at least four people Sunday, the group said, condemning what it called a "worrying pattern" of such attacks.

Monday, November 16, 2015

French warplanes launch airstrikes against ISIS/ISIL so called capital in Syria

French warplanes carried out over 30 airstrikes against positions of the Islamic State (IS) de facto capital of al-Raqqa in northern Syria late Sunday, a monitor group reported.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

UK's Hammond Backs More Saudi Arms Sales, Says They Create 'British Jobs'

UK Foreign secretary Philip Hammond has been criticized for suggesting that Britain should sell more weapons to Saudi Arabia, despite Riyadh's military offensive in Yemen, which has led to allegations of Saudi war crimes.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

MSF Report: Afghan Hospital Attack Had No Military Purpose

The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders says an internal review of last month's airstrikes by U.S. forces on its hospital in northern Afghanistan shows no reason why the facility should have come under attack.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Yemen MSF hospital hit by Arab coalition air strikes

A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was hit by a series of Arab coalition air strikes, the group said, the latest bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month air campaign in Yemen.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

US to pay condolence payments to victims of airstrikes on Afghan hospital

The United States will make "condolence payments" to the civilian victims injured and killed in the deadly airstrike on a hospital run by an aid agency in Kunduz, Afghanistan last week, the Pentagon said here on Saturday.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Saudi-led Coalition airstrike kills 26 at Yemen wedding

Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding celebration in Yemen's southwestern province of Dhamar Wednesday night, killing 26 civilians and wounding dozens, medical sources told Xinhua.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Intl community condemns deadly air raid on Afghan hospital, investigation under way to ensure accountability

A suspected US airstrike on a charity hospital in north Afghanistan killed at least 19 people Saturday, an attack US President Barack Obama described as a "tragic incident" and the UN condemned as "inexcusable."

Friday, June 12, 2015

UNESCO condemns air strike on heritage site in Yemen capital

UNESCO condemned an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on Old Sanaa Friday, a heritage site in Yemen's capital it described as "one of the world's oldest jewels" of Islamic culture.