BAQUBA, Iraq, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — An Iraqi civilian was killed and two others were wounded in gunfire attack and roadside bomb explosion in Iraq’s volatile province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad on Friday, a provincial police source said.
IRAQ: Civilian killed in Iraq’s Diyala violence
Posted by warvictims on November 6, 2009
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AFGHANISTAN: Killing civilians triggers demonstration in S Afghan province
Posted by warvictims on November 6, 2009
KABUL, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — A crowd of Afghans came to the streets of Helmand’s provincial capital Lashkargah in south Afghanistan Thursday and denounced what they described arbitrary killing of civilians.
“Around 100 people carrying some dead bodies in Lashkargah Thursday morning accused NATO-led forces of killing nine civilians and calling on the government to investigate and punish those responsible,” a protestor and demonstrator Hajji Hafizullah Khan told Xinhua.
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IRAQ: Three killed in Iraq’s violence
Posted by warvictims on November 5, 2009
Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Three people were killed, including a senior police officer and his wife, and nine others wounded in bomb and gunfire attacks near Baghdad and the volatile province of Diyala on Wednesday, police said.
A roadside bomb detonated near the car of Colonel Shalal al-Zoubaie, a deputy police chief of Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, killing him and his wife, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
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Trapped civilians caught up in shelling in Pakistan’s war
Posted by warvictims on November 2, 2009
rapped civilians caught up in shelling in Pakistan’s war
29 Oct 2009 10:44:00 GMT
Written by: Nita Bhalla
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) – Tens of thousands of civilians in northwest Pakistan need protection from fighting between government forces and Taliban militants and dozens are being injured by shelling and bombardments every day, aid workers said on Thursday.
The army assault in the ethnic Pashtun tribal region of South Waziristan on the Afghan border has so far forced almost 200,000 people from their homes, most of whom have fled since the fighting officially began on Oct. 17.
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Pakistan: 250,000 displaced in Pakistan’s Waziristan offensive
Posted by warvictims on November 2, 2009
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:52:13 GMT
Press TV
Pakistan’s military offensive against pro-Taliban militants in a northwestern tribal area has forced nearly 250,000 civilians to flee their homes.
As Islamabad’s military operation against pro-Taliban militants in South Waziristan entered its third week, Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmad, chief of the government’s Special Support Group, told reporters on Sunday that between 244,000 and 250,000 people living in the region have migrated to the neighboring towns of Dera Ismail Khan and Tank for their lives. Read the rest of this entry »
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