AFP|September 13 2011
RAMADI, Iraq — Gunmen killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria late Monday in a desert region of Iraq’s western province of Anbar, police general Haider Rzayj told AFP.
“Some armed men stopped the bus coming from Syria Monday around 9:30 pm (1830 GMT), they made the 22 passengers get off the bus and killed them with automatic weapons,” he said.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Iraq, Middle-East | Tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Gunfire, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East |
AP|Riaz Kahn|September 13 2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Taliban gunmen attacked a school van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing four children and the driver in an assault they said was carried out to punish local tribesman for resisting the insurgent movement.
At least 14 other children and two female teachers were wounded in the attack in Matani on the outskirts of the main northwestern city of Peshawar, said police officer Ejaz Khan.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Middle-East, Uncategorized | Tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilians wounded, Gunfire, innocent civilians, innocent victims, Middle-East, Pakistan, Taliban |
At least 26 people were killed during armed clashes on Sunday between pro-government militias and Islamist insurgents near the Somali-Kenya border, Radio Garowe reports.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Military | Tagged Somalia |
The Telegraph|September 8 2011
Baha Mousa, an innocent civilian, welcomed the British forces who occupied his hometown of Basra in April 2003, because their arrival signalled the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
But less than half a year later the 26 year-old father-of-two had suffered a brutal, humiliating death at the hands of a small number of British soldiers he saw as liberators.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, Uncategorized | Tagged civilian deaths, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, war victims |
As Yemen’s political crisis entered its seventh month, the situation further deteriorated Tuesday as Yemen’s ruling party postponed a vote to approve “a modified Gulf-brokered power transition plan which aims to pull…[Yemen]…out of its bloody political deadlock.”
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Middle-East, Military | Tagged bombings, Government, transition, Yemen |
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