As the dust of the Bush administration's war on terror settles, casualties are starting to appear on the legal battlefield. The United States' human rights reputation and the Supreme Court's international influence lay wounded in the wake of U.S. policies that flouted international law by ...
The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise.
Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary because many deaths went unrecorded. Most suggest that some 75 million people died in the war, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians. Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-...
"The (United Nations) Security Council, the only international legal body that can prevent civilian casualties, is politicized and aimed at achieving a balance of power among its members," said Rasheed, who is also a Hillary Clinton Fellow at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He ...
The United States’ war in Vietnam was a conflict associated with the Cold War, in which the U.S. was engaged in military action against the forces of communist-controlled North Vietnam and their allied insurgency in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong. The civil war in Vietnam lasted...
"The(United Nations)Security Council,the only international legal body that can prevent civilian casualties,is politicized and aimed at achieving a balance of power among its members,"said Rasheed,who is also a Hillary Clinton Fellow at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.He also said ...
Over 20 percent of the bombs do not explode on impact and remain active on the ground, being the source of civilian casualties, said medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders. The International Committee of the Red Cross pointed out that children are the most vulnerab...
The international body said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, as well as missiles and airstrikes. ...
The international organization said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, as well as missiles and airstrikes. ...
Most civilian casualties were as a result of airstrikes and explosive weapons used by Russian forces, the U.N. said, with hundreds of residential buildings in several Ukrainian cities damaged or destroyed. The latest figures say 12,700 people have been arbitrarily arrested for holding peaceful ant...