IDLIB: Three family members, all civilians, were killed on Saturday when Russian warplanes struck the outskirts of the northwest Syrian city of Idlib, a war monitor said. Russia has over the years repeatedly struck Syria’s last main opposition bastion, but attacks killing civilians had been limited this year until an uptick in violence in late June.“ Russian air strikes this morning ” to the west of Idlib left “ three dead from the same family ” including a woman and a child, and six others woun

Join our Whatsapp channel KHYBER: As many as 13 civilians, mostly children, who received injuries when a qaudcopter allegedly dropped explosives on a marketplace in Tirah valley here on Monday, were brought to hospitals in Peshawar for treatment, local sources told Dawn on Tuesday. Earlier, it was speculated that militants were targeted in the quadcopter strike. The sources said the people were hit by shrapnel when the blast occurred.... They added two of the injured children were stated to be

The war has internally displaced around 3.8 million people, the UN says, while another million have crossed borders into neighbouring countries. Among the displaced are nearly 2.8 million from Khartoum, according to the International Organi-sation for Migration.... That is more than half the capital’s pre-war population of around five million.... Witnesses on Sunday again reported the army targeting RSF positions in northern Khartoum with “ artillery and rocket fire ”....

Open this photo in gallery Marine Gen.... Frank McKenzie speaks from Tampa, Fla., about Afghanistan during a virtual briefing in Washington on Aug.... 29 strike, Pentagon officials asserted that it had been conducted correctly, despite 10 civilians being killed, including seven children....

There were no recommendations for discipline made by the generals, said John Kirby, chief Pentagon spokesman. The review, done by Air Force Lt.... But he concluded that the strike wasa tragic mistakeand not caused by misconduct or negligence. Austin asked Gen.... Richard Clarke, head of Special Operations Command, to review Said’s conclusions and come back to him with recommendations....

KYIV( Reuters)-An air strike hit a building sheltering civilians in Ukraine's embattled eastern city of Lysychansk on Thursday, killing at least four and wounding seven, local governor Serhiy Gaidai said." The rescue operation is still ongoing," Gaidai wrote on the Telegram app on Thursday evening. The governor said a separate air strike on Thursday had hit a sanatorium building in Lysychansk and collapsed it, possibly causing further casualties.... " It is likely that there are people trapped

WASHINGTON: The U.S. military said Friday that it mistakenly killed at least 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children—but not an Islamic State terrorist, as intended—when it launched a drone strike on a car in Kabul last month.It was a reversal of the Pentagon’s position on the Aug.... 29 strike from just days ago, when military officials said they believed that the strike was justified.... Frank McKenzie, acknowledged the car that was hit, a white Toyota Corolla, which are common in Kabu

A targeted U.S. drone strike in northwest Syria one year ago Friday hit and killed a civilian, not the al-Qaeda leader it was looking for, the Pentagon said after an internal review." U.S. Central Command acknowledges and regrets the civilian harm that resulted from the airstrike," the combatant command said in a statement after the year-long review.... It confirmed the Syrian, Lufti Hasan Masto," was struck and killed instead" of an intended senior al-Qaeda leader.... The news was first repor

LVIV, Ukraine( Reuters)-The bodies of 13 civilians were recovered from rubble after an air strike on a bread factory in the Ukrainian town of Makariv in the Kyiv region on Monday, local emergency services said in an online statement. Five people were rescued, it said, adding that in total around 30 people were believed to have been at the factory before the attack.... ( Reporting by Natalia Zinets, Writing by Alessandra Prentice, Editing by Timothy Heritage)....

Several children were among at least six civilians who were killed in a US drone strike targeting a suspected suicide bomber in Kabul on Sunday, international media reported.... Local media also reported that civilians were killed in the strike. Different local and foreign media outlets cited varying numbers of casualties quoting residents, while there was no official confirmation from the authorities.... " We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home — where my brothers lived with thei