Saudi Airstrike Kills Entire Family In Yemen, Including Children

The airstrike hit a civilian home in Rohoob area of Barat Alanan district, killing a husband, wife and their four little girls, and destroying their house

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. The airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen's capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing at least 14 civilians, including women and children, residents and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The latest in a long line of disastrous airstrikes by Saudi warplanes across Yemen, officials reported an airstrike on Tuesday night in the northern Jawf Province, destroying a single civilian home, killing six civilians and critically wounded another. The civilians killed were an entire family. The slain included the parents and four of their

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UN: Afghan Civilian Casualties From US Airstrikes Up Over 50 Percent

The US has been massively escalating the number of bombs dropped on Afghanistan, reaching the highest level in nearly a decade.

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By Jason Ditz
Photo of Hellfire missiles being loaded onto a US military Reaper drone in Afghanistan by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson/U.S. Air Force

The latest quarterly report on Afghanistan civilian casualties from the United Nations once again is bad news, unsurprising since all other reports on the Afghan War for months have been worse and worse. The UN report says civilian casualties from US and Afghan airstrikes in Afghanistan are up over 50 percent from last year, with increasing

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Monitors: US Airstrikes In Syria Have Killed 2,617 Civilians

A monitor group puts the total number of civilians killed in U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria at 2,617 since late 2014.

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By Jason Ditz
Black smoke rises from a US airstrike on the eastern side of Raqqa, Syria, July 26, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

While the official Pentagon reports on civilian deaths claim far fewer deaths, NGOs have been consistently documenting a massive number of civilian bystanders killed in America’s air war in Iraq and Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the total at 2,617 civilians killed in US-led strikes just in Syria. This included 615 children

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UN Condemns US Airstrikes In Syria Over Heavy Civilian Death Toll

According to reports from Syrian local media, at least 78 civilians have died in the past day in Raqqa city during U.S:-coalition led airstrike assaults

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Black smoke rises from Raqqa where U.S.-forces are battling ISIS militants, in, northeast Syria, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

As reports mount of heavy civilian deaths at the hands of the United States coalition in Raqqa, the United Nations has expressed “deep concern” over the reports and has said that they condemn any attack directed against civilians or civilian infrastructure. “In recent days and weeks scores of civilians have reportedly been killed and injured in

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US Airstrikes In Afghanistan Kill 16 Civilians, Mostly Women And Children

The civilians were reportedly attempting to flee an ISIS advance when they were killed by a U.S. airstrike.

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By Jason Ditz
Friends and family pray during a funeral procession for victims of a U.S. airstrike in the Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. (Photo: Twitter @Qadir Sediqi‏)

Afghan officials today confirmed that US airstrikes targeted and killed at least 16 civilians, mostly women, and children, in the eastern Nangarhar Province, targeting the civilians as they tried to flee out of an ISIS-held district where heavy fighting has been ongoing. The governor of the Haska Meena District said that the attacks targeted

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9 Women, 14 Children Killed In US Airstrike On Raqqa, Syria

The US coalition said in July that its attacks had killed at least 600 civilians in both Iraq and Syria since it began operations in 2014, a figure that is far lower than those given by independent monitors.

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By Jason Ditz
Black smoke rises from Raqqa where U.S.-forces are battling ISIS militants, in, northeast Syria, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

24 hours of US airstrikes against the ISIS capital city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, have killed at least 29 civilians and wounded a large number of others, many of them seriously. The slain include nine women and 14 children. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the incident, saying that among the slain were 14 members of the

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