أرشيف الوسم : killed

On Wednesday, Pakistani jets crushed Taliban targets in North Waziristan district near the Afghani border, leaving at least 60 people dead in the attacks. According to officials, the targets in the district, a stronghold of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, were taken down in the early hours of Wednesday. A few insurgent commanders were also killed in the strikes. The military’s …

Defense for Children Palestine (DCI-Palestine) this past week released a shocking video which clearly showed that two young Palestinian men were killed by IDF soldiers last Thursday while they were walking near the Nakba Day protest site outside Ofer Prison in West Bank. Previously, IDF officials maintained that the Palestinian teens had thrown firebombs and stones at the IDF soldiers, …

The Syrian Air Defense Chief General Hussein Ishaq was killed on Sunday in a military offensive against rebels near Damascus. General Ishaq was wounded on Saturday during the military’s assault on the town Mleiha to the east of Damascus, and succumbed to his wounds on Sunday. The military offensive aims to increase the area near the capital under the President’s …

Six Ukrainian military troops were killed by separatist forces near the city Krematorsk in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Eight more soldiers were wounded in the separatist “ambush” in the outskirts village of Oktyabrske near the city Krematorsk. The statement, released on the Defense ministry’s website, said that the attack was “cynical and dangerous”, and had occurred …

Eleven people were killed in violence as the Iraqi Armed Forces on Friday launched an operation to regain control of areas in the proximity of the militant-held city Fallujah. Anti-government forces have been in control of the city, not far from Baghdad, and parts of the provincial capital Ramadi, since January. The operation is being considered as preparation for a …

An attack on the Yemeni Presidential Palace by suspected Al-Qaeda militants triggered a fierce gunfight and led to the deaths of five guards, as the militants hit back after the launch of an army offensive aimed to crush them. President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi was not in the palace when the gunmen attacked at a checkpoint outside the compound. Hadi only …

The Yemeni army took control of the important al-Qaeda stronghold Azzan in the Shabwa province as its offensive against them entered its tenth day on Thursday. The army’s offensive had begun on April 29th in the country’s central and southern provinces, where US drone strikes have killed several al-Qaeda suspects in the last month. In its statement, the Defense Ministry, …

On Tuesday, New York-based Human Rights Watch called for the UN Security Council to stop the supply of weapons to the Syrian regime, which it said was launching attacks with “barrel bombs”. The Human Rights Watch said that it had documented 85 aerial attacks by the Syrian regime against the opposition in areas they control, like the Aleppo province, since …

دعا السودان يوم الأحد إلى التحقيق في اغتيال مواطنين سودانيين في بلدة نفطية جنوب السودان حيث اتهمت الأمم المتحدة في وقت سابق المتمردين بقتل عدة مئات من المدنيين. و قالت وكالة الأنباء السودانية الرسمية في رسالة قصيرة إن ” وزارة الخارجية تدين اغتيال المواطنين السودانيين في “بنتيو” وتدعو إلى التحقيق العاجل ” , فيما قالت بعثة الأمم المتحدة في جنوب …

قال مسؤولون أنه يوم الخميس هاجمت طائرات مقاتلة  باكستانية عدة مخابئ لحركة طالبان في الحزام القبلي شمال غرب البلاد  اللتي ينعدم فيها القانون ، مما أسفر عن مقتل ما لا يقل عن اثني عشر من المتشددين المشتبه فيهم . وهذه هي المرة الأولى التي يشن الجيش غارات جوية على طالبان منذ اتفاق وقف إطلاق النار و محادثات السلام في 1 …