(ANTIWAR) The deployment of US ground troops into the Helmand Province in recent weeks, aimed at slowing the expansion of the Taliban in the area, has also put the US troops back in direct combat, and calling in air support during fights around populated areas. On Friday, this resulted in a large number of civilian deaths.
Inmates were raped, tortured and killed.
Around 750,000 civilians are out of the reach of aid agencies.
Human Rights Watch has released its 2017 World Report on the current conflict in Yemen.
UN warns civilian casualties are much larger than reported.
This is the second time this month the US-led coalition has bombed a hospital’s property.
Most had gunshot wounds to the head.
Syrian army soldiers march through the streets in the Ansari neighborhood, east Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Dec 23, 2016. (SANA via AP)
(REPORT) — With the fighting over the Syrian city of Aleppo declared finished on Thursday, civilians displaced over the last four-plus years of fighting began returning to bombed out districts en masse, hoping to find their homes intact, or at least comparatively so, and hoping to reclaim their lives in a now calm city.
