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.
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Somalia: 26 killed in insurgent fighting near Kenya border
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Military, tagged Somalia on September 12, 2011 |
IRAQ: Baha Mousa, Innocent Father Who Suffered Brutal Death in UK Military Custody
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, Uncategorized, tagged civilian deaths, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, war victims on September 8, 2011 |
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.
YEMEN: Yemen’s Continued Political Deadlock Threatens Further Violence
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Middle-East, Military, tagged bombings, Government, transition, Yemen on September 7, 2011 |
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.”
SYRIA: Heavy gunfire in central, north Syria; 11 killed
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Gunfire, Middle-East on September 7, 2011 |
BEIRUT (AP) — A barrage of gunfire by security forces that left residents cowering in their homes killed at least nine people and wounded several others Wednesday in Homs, a hotbed of opposition to President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime, activists and residents said. Two others were shot dead during raids in Sarameen, in northern Syria.
In a step the opposition says shows the regime is intractable, a planned visit by the Arab League secretary general Wednesday to push Assad to make major concessions to defuse the 6-month-old crisis was called off at the last minute at the government’s request.
YEMEN: Yemeni Regime Hits Mosque, Killing 7
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Military, tagged Civilian Casualties, Yemen on September 6, 2011 |
PressTV | September 6, 2011
Yemeni government’s fighter jets have mistakenly attacked a mosque in the country’s southern province of Abyan, killing at least seven civilians and injuring five others.
Air-force planes reportedly carried out two strikes over Abyan province, one of which mistakenly hit the Hamza mosque, its nearby hospital, and a police station in the town of Jaar on Monday, AP reported.
