3 days ago by Betsy Burtner Schuurman

Fighting continues on the border Saudi Arabia and Yemen for the fifth straight day. Shia Houthis in Yemen have been fighting the Yemen military for their own government since August. The fighting has recently expanded to include Saudi border areas and the Saudi military, Al Jazeera. Jason Rodriguez, ...

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5 days ago by warvictims

Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Three people were killed, including a senior police officer and his wife, and nine others wounded in bomb and gunfire attacks near Baghdad and the volatile province of Diyala on Wednesday, police said. A roadside bomb detonated near the car of Colonel Shalal al-Zoubaie, a deputy po ...

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7 days ago by warvictims

October 27, 2009 (New York) – The Sri Lankan government’s proposal to create a committee of experts to examine allegations of laws-of-war violations during the conflict between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is an attempt to avoid an independent internation ...

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12 days ago by Ismail

While detailing the structure of the introductory chapter of the book for which I have started doing research, I made a note about language and logic; about the discourse of war and oppression – how the aggressors and/or the persecutors debase and manipulate language for political purposes and how t ...

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12 days ago by warvictims

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER AP October 29, 2009 BERLIN — A top German general said Thursday that a NATO investigation of an airstrike against a pair of hijacked Afghan tanker trucks showed the attack was appropriate even though it led to civilian casualties. Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, who is the general ...

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12 days ago by warvictims

By AFP October 29, 2009 ISLAMABAD — A US-based rights group on Thursday urged Pakistan to ensure that sufficient supplies reach civilians trapped by a massive anti-Taliban offensive, warning of “catastrophe” without aid access. Pakistan launched a ground and air operation designed to crush Taliban s ...

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13 days ago by dcrowe

Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Yesterday, October officially became the deadliest month for U.S. fo ...

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13 days ago by warvictims

By AL JAZEERA October 26, 2009 Two car bombs in central Baghdad have killed at least 136 people and wounded more than 550 others, police sources have told Al Jazeera. The blasts went off less than a minute apart on Sunday, near the ministry of justice and the headquarters of the Baghdad provincial a ...

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13 days ago by warvictims

By AFP October 25, 2009 KABUL — The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has launched an investigation into the deaths of four civilians it killed by firing on their vehicle in the southern city of Kandahar, the alliance force said. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said its troops opened fire ...

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13 days ago by warvictims

October 28, 2009 (CNN) — Somalia’s president escaped an opportunistic attack by Islamic militants Wednesday as deadly fighting erupted in the center of Mogadishu, officials said. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was returning from a trip to Yemen when insurgents began firing mortars, resulted in a clash w ...

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