Posted in Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Iraq, Middle-East, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Gunfire, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East on September 13, 2011 |
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, 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.
Posted in Air Strike, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Government, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, Property Damage, tagged air strikes, civilian casulaties, gaddafi, Libya, Nato, Zlitan on August 11, 2011 |
BBC | Matthew Price | August 11, 2011
The Libyan government has taken correspondents to Zlitan, to see the aftermath of a Nato strike that it says killed 85 civilians. Nato says it hit a military staging base. The BBC’s Matthew Price went along to weigh the competing claims.
A photocopied version of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea lay in the rubble. Next to it were school books, their pages fluttering in the light breeze. (more…)
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Middle-East, Military, Property Damage, Protesters, Shelling, Syria, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Turkey, tagged Bashar al-Assad, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Protesters, Ramadan, security forces, Syrian unrest, Turkey on August 10, 2011 |
REUTERS | Khaled Yacoub Oweis | August 10, 2011
Syrian tanks stormed two northwestern towns near the border with Turkey on Wednesday, expanding a military offensive to crush protests, local residents said a day after Ankara pressed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end killings of civilians.
Posted in Africa, Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Diplomacy, Government, Insurgents, Libya, NATO/Allies, North Africa, Property Damage, United States, tagged air strikes, civilian casulaties, gaddafi, Libya, Libyan rebels, National Transitional Council, Nato on August 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
AFP | Herve Bar | August 9, 2011
BENGHAZI, Libya — The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive against Libya among African nations as Tripoli accused NATO of a “massacre” of 85 villagers in air strikes in support of rebels.
American diplomats are visiting several African countries as part of efforts to urge leaders to press Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi to leave power immediately, officials in Washington said on Tuesday. (more…)
