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, Gunfire, Middle-East, Uncategorized, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilians wounded, Gunfire, innocent civilians, innocent victims, Middle-East, Pakistan, Taliban on September 13, 2011|
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, 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.
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.
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