At least 22 civilians were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province over the weekend, an official said, blaming the attacks on an armed group led by Ugandan rebels. The killings happened in Eringeti, a town 55km north of the regional hub Beni, a city plagued by a[…]
Only a day after the evacuation of Aleppo residents began, numerous reports emerged that a convoy of at least 800 civilians was taken hostage by pro-Assad militias near Ramoussa on Friday. “A group of cars carrying hundreds of people out of east Aleppo was stopped by tanks belonging to Shia[…]
Thousands of civilians and rebels are still waiting to leave the last remaining rebel-held pockets of eastern Aleppo under an evacuation deal that will allow Syria’s government to take full control of the city after years of fighting. The operation launched on Thursday and is expected to take several days.[…]
As more South African’s wake up to the dire situation in Aleppo, Islamic Relief is responding to displaced civilians in these areas. The Syrian conflict is now in its 5th year and is one of the worst human disasters and catastrophes, unparalleled since World War 2. Hundreds of thousands of[…]
An agreed evacuation of rebels and civilians from the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo has been delayed, according to activists in besieged parts of the city and a monitor. Bus-loads of people were set to begin leaving on Wednesday morning as part of a deal with the government , whose[…]
Over the past 24 hours, several videos have been released by the men, women and children of Aleppo as the regime forces of President Bashar Al-Assad mercilessly bombard almost 100,000 civilians who are stuck in a two kilometre squared pocket and have nowhere to flee to. The United Nations has[…]
The Syrian army and its allies captured Sheikh Saeed district in Aleppo in overnight fighting, a war monitor and a Syrian official said early on Monday, amid the most intense bombardment in days, leaving insurgents in only a tiny pocket of the city. Sheikh Saeed lies in the south of[…]
Syria’s government resumed air strikes on remaining rebel-held territory in east Aleppo on Friday, a day after ally Moscow announced a “pause” in the assault, an activist group said. The apparent resumption came hours after Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Syria’s army was halting its three-week[…]
Jamana al-Ahmed turns her tap and nothing comes out. She flicks the light switch and remains in darkness. She hides in her makeshift home in central Aleppo from bombs and patrols of shabiha – the feared pro-government paramilitary force – who seek out and abduct those they suspect of collaboration[…]
At least 45 civilians were killed Sunday in heavy bombardment of a Syrian rebel stronghold east of Damascus that also struck a school, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rockets fired by regime forces rained down on the towns of Douma, Harasta, Saqba and Arbin[…]
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