“The Secretary-General reminds all sides that any indiscriminate targeting of civilian and media structures violates international law and must be avoided at all costs,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in the statement on behalf of Guterres. Guterres was particularly “dismayed by the increasing number of civilian casualties, including the death of …
Read More »Civilian killed by shrapnel after rockets from Gaza hit Tel Aviv suburbs (VIDEO)
A video by RT’s Middle East Bureau Chief Paula Slier shows damaged buildings and first responders on the street. A parked vehicle was destroyed and others were damaged. Rocket warning sirens were again heard in Tel Aviv and other cities across southern and central Israel. Projectiles launched from Gaza fell …
Read More »At least 1 dead in reported Israeli strike on ‘civilian plastic warehouse’ in Syria’s Latakia
SANA named the targets of “Israeli aggression” as Al-Haffah, a town just northeast of Latakia, and Masyaf, located halfway between Tartus and Hama. The attack took place shortly after 3 am local time on Wednesday. SANA reported that the Israeli missiles struck a “civilian warehouse of plastic materials” in the Latakia …
Read More »Pakistan deploys TROOPS to help civilian authorities cope with Covid-19 infections
Soldiers “will go to every corner of Pakistan to ensure the protection of citizens,” military spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar told reporters on Monday, adding that the primary purpose of the deployment “is to help civil institutions and law enforcement agencies.” In this testing time, Pakistan Army will use all …
Read More »Space sweepstakes: 2 lucky winners selected for first ALL-CIVILIAN SpaceX flight into orbit
The historic flight was the idea of billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who is privately funding the launch as part of a campaign to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a leading pediatric cancer center in Memphis, Tennessee. Isaacman pledged $100 million towards the hospital and invited others to …
Read More »EVERY FIFTH PERSON: The USSR’s loss of civilian and military life during World War II – our Great Patriotic War
March 3, 1943 saw the city of Rzhev liberated from the Nazi occupation. Out of the 50,000 people who used to live there before the war, only about 300 survived. Two days before the city was recaptured, German troops gathered the survivors in an old church and rigged it with …
Read More »Myanmar sees largest protest in over a decade as supporters of ousted civilian leadership demand generals reverse coup
The incident, which reportedly happened in the border town of Myawaddy on Sunday, shows the fragility of the situation. The mass protests – the largest Myanmar has seen since the 2007 crisis – have so far been largely peaceful, but the country remains in a volatile state since the start …
Read More »Sickening 300% rise in civilian casualties shows Afghanistan still has nothing to show for 20 years of US warmongering
It’s been almost 20 years now since the United States and its allies entered Afghanistan as part of the ‘war on terror’, but even after all that time, it shows no signs of ending. Nor, arguably, has there been any respite for Afghanistan’s people, despite a commitment towards peace between …
Read More »‘Testament to transparency’? Pentagon reveals data on ‘confirmed’ civilian casualties of intervention against IS in Syria & Iraq
The UK-based conflict monitoring group Airwars said “more than three years of extensive engagement” with the US military allowed it to obtain the “most accurate and comprehensive data ever publicly revealed” by the Pentagon about civilian casualties inflicted by the US-led coalition operations in Syria and Iraq over the last …
Read More »Armenia tells Azerbaijan to brace for ‘HARSH RESPONSE’ as civilian bus hit & set on fire in cross-border strikes
Azeri forces targeted non-combatants in the small Armenian border town of Vardenis on Tuesday, according to Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the Armenian Defense Ministry representative. The official uploaded to social media what he said was photographic documentation of the aftermath of a strike by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The images circulated …
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