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By Verity Hubbard On 24 November at least 14 people were killed and 45 wounded by two explosions in the city of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan. The two magnetic bombs, one hidden near a marketplace and...

By Verity Hubbard on 11 Nov 2020 A truck laden with explosives was detonated outside a police station in Maiwand district, Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on 8 November. At least 14 people...

By Naomi Graves and Verity Hubbard Somalia is one of the most politically fragile countries in the world. Prolonged tensions between Somalia's federal government, regional authorities and clans,...

By Verity Hubbard On 27 October 2020 (Monday), an explosion at a religious seminary in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar killed at least 8 people and injured 136 others. The blast struck Jamia...

By Verity Hubbard on 26 Oct 2020 At least 24 people were killed and 57 wounded in a suicide bomb attack outside an education centre in western Kabul, Afghanistan, on 24 October. Among the injured are...

63 civilians have been killed in attacks by the Armenian armed forces since September 27, Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General has confirmed. 18 of them were women and eight were children. Another 293...

By Akanshya Gurung on 22 Oct 2020 The 21st century has been a tragedy for Iraq’s children. An entire generation of girls and boys have suffered violence, terror, poverty, and displacement. Iraq’s 17...

By Murray Jones At least 13 people were killed and more than 100 wounded by a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan’s western Ghor province on Sunday [October 18th]. According to the nation’s Interior...

By William Grant-Brook and Verity Hubbard A generation of Syrians has been born into war. As the Syrian conflict closes in on a decade, at least 3 million Syrian children under the age of six know...

Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan has suffered from such chronic instability and conflict during its modern history that its economy and infrastructure are in ruins, and hundreds of thousands...

With the sole exception of the year 2017, IEDs have been responsible for more civilian deaths than any other explosive weapon type in each and every year in the last decade. Victims Over the last...

By Verity Hubbard on 14 Oct 2020 On 6th October 2020, at least 19 civilians were killed in a car bomb explosion in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkish-backed forces. 80 civilians were...

By Verity Hubbard on 14 Oct 2020 10 people were killed, and 34 injured, when Armenian forces fired missiles on a residential area of Azerbaijan’s second city, Ganja, on 11 October. The bombardment...

The use of heavy explosive weapons in the cities of Ganja and Stepanakert, and other towns and populated areas in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is killing and injuring civilians, and destroying vital...

By George Fairhurst On Saturday October 3rd a deadly car bomb targeted a government building in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. It left 15 dead including four children, and 40 more wounded...

By George Fairhurst As news emerges that Azerbaijan's second-largest city, Ganja, has been shelled by Armenian forces, and heavy clashes continue over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Action on...

By Joe Keenan Since Houthi forces swept down from Northern Yemen into the capital Sana'a in September 2014, some 9,755 civilians have been reported injured and close to 8,736 killed by explosive...

By Pauline Latil and Ecem Nazlı Üçok For more than 35 years, Turkey has been involved in an armed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces. The PKK has been...

By Meera Thoompail and Jake Tacchi "The doctors wanted to discharge me...I begged them to keep me in longer." These are the words of Faridon, a 40-year-old man from Afghanistan's Baghlan Province,...