Warring parties in the ongoing battle for Tripoli have killed and injured scores of civilians in indiscriminate attacks using inaccurate weapons in populated urban areas, Amnesty International says.
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has said it remains troubled that civilians are being killed in high numbers and that it has found that during the holy month of Ramadan, anti-Government elements “deliberately and knowingly targeted civilians.”
Save the Children calls on governments around the world to recognise the role they have to play in ending grave violations against children, including ending arms sales to countries that bomb civilian areas indiscriminately.
With the ingredients for a "perfect storm” brewing in the Syrian province of Idlib, the international community cannot allow civilians there to succumb to such a fate, the UN Envoy for the country has told the Security Council.
Following a period of relative calm in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed deep concern over renewed violence in Douma, particularly the alarming allegations that chemical weapons may have been used against civilians.
The United Nations and partners reached the Syrian city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta on 9 March 2018 to complete the distribution of food aid after intense shelling cut short deliveries to the war-torn enclave earlier in the week.
After multiple attempts in recent weeks to gain humanitarian access to Eastern Ghouta, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reached the town of Douma as part of a joint aid convoy with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations.