Showing posts with label deaths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deaths. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Friday, September 23, 2016

UN chief slams deadly airstrikes in Yemeni port city. At least 25 people have been killed and 70 others wounded

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday condemned the multiple airstrikes by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition on Sept. 21 in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Yemen, which killed and injured dozens of people, including children and women.

Monday, August 22, 2016

Turkey: UN chief condemns terrorist attack on wedding party that kills at least 50 people

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned yesterday's terrorist attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep – an act that was reportedly carried out by a suicide bomber and killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens of others.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Terror in Turkey: Major Suicide Bomb Rocks Wedding - 30 Dead, 94 Injured

The death toll from the terror attack that struck the Turkish city of Gaziantep has risen to 30 dead with 94 civilians wounded according to the city's Governor reports Sputnik News Wire.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Afghanistan's Hazara minority : ISIS-claimed blasts kill dozens in Kabul

Twin explosions targeting a large demonstration by members of Afghanistan's ethnic Hazara minority in Kabul have killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 230, officials have said.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

German police say 10 dead in Munich, including lone shooter

Friday's assault at a Munich shopping mall was "probably" the work of a lone assailant who took his own life after fatally shooting nine people, German police said.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Friday, July 15, 2016

At least 80 dead in France truck attack in Nice

An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.

Monday, June 6, 2016

Arab-led coalition rejects censure in U.N. report on Yemen

The Arab-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen rejected Sunday a U.N. report that placed it on an annual blacklist over the deaths of hundreds of children in airstrikes.“The report is imbalanced and does not rely on credible statistics, nor does it serve the Yemeni people,” coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri told the official Saudi Press Agency.

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.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Paris attacks to bring Syrian conflict into Europe (Italian analyst)

The terror attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris on Friday indicated an attempt by terrorists to bring the Syrian battlefield into Europe, an Italian analyst said on Saturday.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Death toll surges to 153 in Paris gunfire and blasts

France has decided to close its borders, declare a nation-wide state of emergency, and deploy its army in and around Paris after at least 153 people were killed and dozens injured in multiple shootings, a 100-person hostage crisis, and explosions rocked the French capital late on Friday.

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.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Dozens of refugees found dead in truck in Austria

Up to 50 refugees have been found dead in a truck in Austria, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Balkan leaders gathered in Vienna to decide on how to collectively tackle the biggest refugee crisis to hit Europe since World War II.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Mediterranean migrant deaths in 2015 pass 2,000 (IOM)

More than 2,000 people have died so far this year trying to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday, making it the world's most dangerous migrant route.