civilian casualties

No official reports of civilian casualties in Kandahar raid, NATO Afghanistan mission says

NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said it had not been informed through official channels of allegations of civilian deaths in a raid in Kandahar earlier this month

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Syrian troops find mass grave west of Raqqa

Syrian troops have uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of more than 30 people killed by Islamic State in Raqqa province, state media reported

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Record number of Afghan civilian casualties in attacks in 2017, UN says

Nearly 2,300 civilians were killed or wounded in suicide bombings and attacks in Afghanistan in 2017, more than any previous year of the conflict on record, a UN report said

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Boko Haram kills two as military says group ‘defeated’

Boko Haram fighters stormed a village in northeast Nigeria and killed two people, a local resident and a security source said as the military maintained the group had been defeated

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Houthi rebel fire kills 9, including journalist, in Yemen’s Taiz

Houthi rebel rocket fire killed nine people, including a journalist and a child, in Yemen's southwest province of Taiz, an official said

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Turkey conducts first airstrikes against Efrin in Syria after Russia withdraws troops

Turkey launched heavy airstrikes on the city of Efrin in an operation dubbed ‘Operation Olive Branch’ after Russian troops withdrew

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Saudi-led strikes on Yemen kill dozens of Houthi fighters and civilians

Saudi-led air strikes have killed dozens of rebels and civilians in the past 24 hours in Yemen's Hodeidah province, medical sources said

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Civilian casualties in Iraq remained steady in December

The number of civilians killed and wounded in Iraq in December rose slightly from the previous month, a figure that the United Nations special envoy said was disappointing

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US-led Coalition in Iraq and Syria acknowledges 16 more civilian deaths, bringing total to at least 817

The U.S.-led Coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq acknowledged 16 more civilian deaths in air or artillery strikes, increasing the number killed to at least 817

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Saudi-led coalition airstrikes kill 68 Yemen civilians in a single day – UN

68 Yemeni civilians were killed in two air raids by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, the UN humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said

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