LAST UPDATE: 14:50 Fighting between armed groups that broke out overnight Friday into Saturday in Tripoli, amid political chaos and conflict between the two governments vying for power, killed 32 people and wounded 159 others, according to the latest tally the Ministry of Health of Libya announced today. Calm returned to Tripoli today after clashes […]
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Ukraine: Nearly 9,000 military personnel have been killed since the start of the war
Nearly 9,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the war with Russia, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces said on Monday, Reuters reported. The account given by General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi appeared to be the first given by Ukraine’s top military echelon since Russia’s February 24 invasion. Zaluzhnyi, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, told a […]
Russia: 16 dead from the collision of a minibus and two trucks
Sixteen people were killed today when a minibus and two trucks collided in the Russian town of Ulyanovsk (in the Volga region), Russian news agencies reported. According to witnesses cited by the news agencies, a truck left its lane when it collided with a minibus traveling in the opposite direction, near the village of Nikolayevka. […]
Turkey: 16 dead and 21 injured in a traffic accident
Sixteen people were killed and 21 injured on a highway in southeastern Turkey in a crash involving an ambulance and a bus, the governor of Gaziantep province said today. The governor had earlier spoken of 15 dead “in the traffic accident involving a bus, a rescue team and an ambulance on the highway between Gaziantep […]
Syria: At least 21 civilians were killed yesterday in different incidents in the northern part of the country
At least 21 civilians, including children, were killed yesterday Friday in northern Syria by the shelling launched by forces close to the Syrian regime and by a strike by the Turkish army. Turkey has deployed troops in the north of the war-torn country with the support of Syrian rebel groups. Turkish soldiers are conducting operations […]
UN confirms involvement of Malian soldiers and ‘white soldiers’ in death of 33 civilians
The Malian army and “white soldiers” are involved in the death, in early March in Mali, not far from the border with Mauritania, of 33 civilians, including 29 Mauritanians and 4 Malian citizens, according to a report by UN experts, on which Agence France-Presse saw today. The bodies of these civilians were found a few […]
Ukraine: Eight people killed by Russian shelling in the city of Toretsk
Eight people were killed and four wounded by Russian artillery shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Toretsk in the Donetsk region, the regional governor said. The shelling hit a bus stop where people had gathered, governor Pavlo Kirilenko wrote on Telegram. Three children are among the injured, he said. Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s […]
Ukraine requests list of prisoners killed in Donetsk prison
Ukraine’s Coordinating Center for the Handling of Prisoner of War Issues has demanded that Moscow provide a list of prisoners of war killed and wounded in the explosion that occurred Thursday night in Olenevka, Donetsk. The center is also seeking to recover the bodies of the dead and has called on the Red Cross and […]
Zelensky: Bombing of Donetsk prison ‘willful Russian war crime’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the bombing of a prison in the eastern part of his country, which killed “more than 50” prisoners of war, a “deliberate Russian war crime”. “I received information today about the attack by the occupation forces on Olenivka (where the prison is located), in the Donetsk region. This is […]
Syria: At least 17 dead in clashes in Sweida province
At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in Syria’s Sweida province in clashes between armed residents and factions linked to state security services, activists said and local media reported today. The predominantly Druze province has remained largely unscathed by the bloody conflict that has engulfed the rest of the country since 2011, but […]