civilians

Incompetent commanders have hidden behind the skirts of women and children for as long as armed conflict has been around.

When brutal fighting broke out between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the powerful Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ...

MEXICO CITY—A gang riot inside a border prison that left two inmates dead quickly spread to the streets ...

KHARTOUM—Sudan's top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan defended the army's seizure of power on Tuesday, saying he had ousted ...

British troops have a window of just 48 hours to evacuate civilians from Afghanistan, according to a former ...

ADDIS ABABA—The local government in Ethiopia's Somali region said on Tuesday militia from the neighbouring region of Afar ...

KABUL—Intense fighting in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz killed at least 28 civilians and injured 290 this ...

NIAMEY, Niger—Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in ...

BAGHOUZ, Syria—A convoy of trucks carrying hundreds of civilians, including men, women, and children, left the last enclave held ...

AL-OMAR OIL FIELD BASE, Syria—ISIS terrorists are preventing more than 1,000 civilians from leaving a tiny area still ...

At least 18,802 civilians were killed and another 36,245 were wounded in Iraq between the start of 2014 ...

Israel's air force carried out a drone strike in southern Syria on Friday, killing five civilians, while a ...

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the ISIS group in Iraq and Syria likely have killed hundreds of civilians

Air raids and the subsequent crash of a Syrian warplane in a residential area in the northwestern town ...

An international human rights group says South Sudanese troops committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest among a crowd of shoppers at a market in northern Afghanistan ...

The U.N.'s top human rights body backed calls Friday for accountability in last year's conflict in Gaza, in ...

SANAA, Yemen—Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels and allied forces destroyed historic houses in the Old City of the ...

A motorcycle-riding suicide bomber attacked a bank branch Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 35 people