Two United Nations (UN) rapporteurs on Wednesday urged immediate protection for thousands of civilians caught up in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) offensives in the Aleppo region of northern Syria.
Civilians often pay high prices in the war-zones, particularly in militancy-plagued Afghanistan as considerable number of the victims of three suicide bombings elsewhere in the country over the past seven days were civilians, according to officials.
Over three million civilians living in conflict-affected areas in eastern Ukraine are facing growing despair and isolation, a UN human rights report revealed Thursday.
At least three civilians were killed and 10 others wounded in an explosion in Maimana, capital of Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab on Wednesday, an official said.
The Afghan army has found and defused 27 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in two southern provinces, the country's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
Taliban militants have intensified activities since launching their annual spring offensive on April 24 and since then they have conducted a series of deadly attacks, mostly in the shape of suicide bombings which have claimed the lives of numerous civilians, according to security officials.
Heavy fighting involving a main Moro rebel group and its breakaway group erupted late Thursday in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, forcing thousands of civilians to evacuate, a military official said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday said that he "remains gravely concerned over the situation in eastern Ukraine," and reiterated his call for "a sustainable ceasefire to take hold and for urgent diplomatic and political action."
The United States, Britain and France have begun to offer food, water and other badly needed supplies to displaced civilians stranded by Islamic State (IS) militants in mountainous northern Iraq.
Though Israel's air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of almost 800 Palestinian civilians by Thursday night, the international efforts to broker a ceasefire still have hardly showed any signs of substantial progress.
At least six police were killed while several civilians were wounded Thursday evening in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghan province of Panjshir, the Interior Ministry said.
A roadside bomb struck civilian car in Taliban former stronghold the southern Kandahar Province on Tuesday, killing three civilians and injuring another
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemned the recent abduction and killing of six civilians in Herat province in western Afghanistan, said Farhan Haq, the UN associate spokesman.
Parties of armed conflicts should solve their disputes through dialogue and negotiations to minimize human casualties, a Chinese envoy to the United Nations ( UN) said on Monday.
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