The United Nations Humanitarian Chief says he is concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northern Sri Lanka, where thousands of civilians are trapped in a rebel-controlled area, unable to flee combat between the fighters and the...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 14 May 2007 Civilians from the northern Casamance region of Senegal are being displaced again, following renewed fighting between rebel groups. Hundreds of people are reported to have fled to the nearby Gambian border region t...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 January 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for respect for international humanitarian law in Somalia. It says it is deeply concerned about the plight of the civilian population, the war wounded, an...
By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 25 July 2006 Southern Lebanon is bearing the brunt of Israeli airstrikes that have now gone on nearly two weeks. The towns and villages of the Shiite-dominated south have been pounded by artillery, killing more th...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 17 July 2006 watch Casualities report Lebanon's peace has been shattered, warplanes have bombed the Gaza strip, and rockets are falling from the sky over Israel. VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports on the plight of people o...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 June 2006 At least 10 people were killed and 15 seriously wounded when a bomb destroyed a bus taking Afghan workers to a U.S. military base in the southern city of Kandahar. The attack came as coalition forces intensifi...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 09 June 2006 At least seven Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip. Injured girl is treated by medics at hospital in northern Gaza Strip, Friday Israeli artillery shells slammed into a...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 12 May 2006 watch CIA Nomination report President Bush listens to Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, left, speak at White House President Bush's nomination of a four-star...
More Foreign Civilians Killed in Iraqi Drive-By Shootings Nick Simeone A day after Spain's incoming prime minister said he plans to pull his country's troops out of Iraq, President Bush is urging othe...