Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A UN spokesperson said that "three international UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan) staff members were killed, and four international armed security guards were killed." [9] Two of the UN dead were reported to have been beheaded. [13] It was the deadliest attack ever against United Nations personnel in Afghanistan. [8]
Aftermath of World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack which killed 7 aid workers on April 1, 2024. Humanitarian aid workers belonging to United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are among the list of protected persons under international humanitarian law that grant them immunity from attack by belligerent parties.
A staff officer later claimed the fatal shell was British and Mercer is upheld as the most senior Canadian officer killed in combat and by friendly fire. [ 28 ] On the night of 4–5 August, during the First Battle of the Somme , the 13th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry were fired on by Australian Artillery while in process of capturing ...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that three of its staff were killed in war-torn Sudan's Blue Nile state on Thursday after an aerial strike on its compound. U.N ...
United Nations' Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the air strike that reportedly killed at least 22 people in Sudan on Saturday, according to a statement released by a spokesperson ...
People carry the body of Yaser Abu Sharar, a staff member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) who was killed in an attack by the Israeli ...
The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003.It killed 23 people, including the United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and wounded over 100, including human rights lawyer and political activist Amin Mekki Medani.
A majority of the fallen were U.S. Marines. Some had been recalled to Afghanistan to assist with the U.S. pullout.