The conflict in Yemen has killed nearly 400 children since the end of March, and a similar number of children have been recruited by armed groups, according to a new report by the UN children’s agency. UNICEF’s report released on Wednesday, says that 398 children have been killed and 377[…]
Almost a quarter of a million people, including nearly 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it broke out in March 2011, a UK-based activist group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said it had documented the deaths of 240,381 people, up from its tally[…]
At least four Palestinians from the same family have been killed, and 43 people were injured, in the Gaza Strip after Israeli military ordnance left over from last summer’s 50-day war exploded, a Palestinian health official has said. Ashraf al-Qidra, a Gaza health ministry spokesman, said on Thursday that the[…]
In January 2011, in the wake of the Arab spring that swept across the Middle East and North Africa, anti-government demonstrations began in Syria. Syria’s government responded with violent crackdowns against protesters. From those crackdowns rebel groups were formed whose main aim back then was to depose of the government[…]
“Yemen’s war is one that can be stopped, but it needs some sort of pressure to guarantee peace keeping. There are however many ways in which a truce can still be reached.” This is according to Sama’a Al-Hamdani, an independent analyst on a civil war that has effectively crippled the[…]
OPINION by Ramzy Baroud – As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps, the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (‘IS’) continues its unhindered march towards a twisted version of a Muslim caliphate. Many thousands have lost their lives, some in the most torturous ways, so that[…]
The fluctuating dynamics in Yemen are making relief efforts to the front-lines of the country’s civil war extremely difficult, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF SA). The organisation held a closed media briefing in Johannesburg recently, seeking to spread the word on a deteriorating humanitarian situation in the war-stricken gulf[…]
Yemen is on the edge of civil war yet television screens worldwide are not bombarding viewers with images of children dying and people suffering as a result of a Saudi led coalition against the country. Yemen is strategically important because it sits on the Bab al-Mandab strait, a narrow waterway[…]
Both Israel and Palestinian radicals may have committed war crimes during last year’s Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying the “unprecedented” devastation and human suffering. The Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict announced it had gathered “substantial information” and “credible allegations” that both[…]
War, violence and persecution left one in every 122 humans on the planet a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum at the end of last year, according to a stark UN report that warns the world is failing the victims of an “age of unprecedented mass displacement”. The annual global[…]
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