UN: Congolese troops raped, pillaged villages (Updated)

" UPDATES: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made a fresh plea for 3,000 more peacekeepers to be sent to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In New York, Mr Ban also called for a ceasefire so aid...

Pakistan and Afghanistan are moving backwards

More US missile strikes kill civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan

African leaders seek humanitarian corridors in DR Congo

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the armed conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo could engulf the wider region. His remark on the crisis has come at a time when African leaders following  a summit  in Nairobi on the Congolese crisis have...

Fresh U.S. air raid kills 7 Afghan civilians: officials say mistake do happen

 In yet another incident of killing by US led forces seven people lost there life. yesterday in similar type killing 40 people lost their life.What kind of strategy the force is using to control terrorism, they...

U.N. says US backed Colombian military executing civilians

As Colombian President Alvaro Uribe rejected criticism made by Amnesty International and Human Right Watch nover his administration management of fundamental Rights , the U.N. High Commissioner for Human...

DR Congo: "Faces Humanitarian Crisis of Catastrophic Dimensions" - UN Secretary

THE UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called for more UN Peacekeepers in the DR Congo.  He warned that the area, ""faces a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic dimensions". His comments come as rebel...

At least thirteen dead in Philippines clashes

Latest report coming from Philipppines says that at least 13 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels were killed and four others wounded in a clash with troops between the towns of Mamasapano and Datu Saudi...

3 army colonels fired in Colombia for killings

" BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's army chief fired three colonels on Friday in the case of 11 men who disappeared from a Bogota suburb and were found dead months later in a war zone hundreds of miles away. It...

Nano warfare could end the need for soldiers going to war

My stance is an anti-war one and I am very concerned that most wars to day are geared to corporate interest. That, military service personnel are sent to war by our leaders on behalf of capitalistic entities the...

Taliban attack Afghan buses, kill 25 passengers

Taliban molitia killed more than 25 Afgan people in southern province of Kandhar .This incident took place when the militia man tried to stop the bus, on the refusal to do so they openely fired several rounds...

Afghan strike 'kills 18 civilians'

Yet another incident of civilian kiling by the forces in Afganistan, in latest incident of bombing 18 civilian including children and women died." At least 18 civilians have been killed in an air strike by foreign...

The Associated Press: Afghan police say 3 dead in coalition strike

" official says a coalition operation has killed three Afghan civilians. Gen. Abdul Jalal Jalal, the provincial police chief in the eastern province of Kunar, said a coalition operation apparently targeted a suicide cell, but that only civilians were in the home when it...

'car bomb' blast kills 17 in Syria

" At least 17 people been killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to state television. A further 14 people, all of them civilians, are reported to have been wounded in the blast. A...

Somali Islamists target soldiers, 11 civilians die

   Somalia is once again bathing in blood, this time this incident of  mortar attack took place in Mogadishu killing 11 innocent people.Islamist insurgents attacked an African peacekeeping base in...

Pakistan army ordered to hit back US forces

Though Sarah Palin seems to be unaware that it's occuring, the US has been undertaking raids into sovereign Pakistan territory from Afghanistan, without the approval of the Pakistan government.  With a new president just taking office in the country, the timing of this...

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