by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 25, 2017 | Middle East
Extremist militants from terror group ISIS posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday. Wearing police uniforms, they entered parts of the Old City on Monday to trick residents into...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 24, 2017 | Middle East
The United Nations announced Tuesday that it is not wasting time on preparing emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of endangered civilians in Mosul with an Iraqi army offensive looming to drive ISIS hardliners from the western half of the city. U.N. officials...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 14, 2016 | Middle East
London- War-ravaged Yemen will be seeing an additional 2.5 million people go without enough food to eat in 2017, raising the count to a preposterous 16 million Yemenis facing starvation. The increase will evidently take place should the current downward spiral...
by Youssef Diab | Nov 24, 2016 | Middle East
The battle for Raqqa has begun to have a huge negative impact on the lives of civilians, hundreds of whom have been displaced due to violent clashes and exchanges of fire between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that are backed by the international coalition on one...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 8, 2016 | World
The United Nations has pledged to conduct an investigation into US airstrikes carried out during an operation against the Taliban in the Kunduz province of Afghanistan. 32 civilians were killed in the troubled province last week as a result, and the UN said that any...
