War

Child casualties have soared in Afghanistan this year as the Taliban stepped up attacks in urban areas, the United Nations said on April 17, branding the figures "appalling."

Between January and March, 161 children were killed and 449 others injured - a 29 percent increase from a year earlier - the U.N.'s mission in Afghanistan said in a report.  

Russia is refusing to extradite a former Bosnian Serb soldier who is suspected of committing war crimes during mass expulsions of civilians in the Kljuc area, claiming he is too ill.

The real life of a soldier in war theatres is far from the glorified image often portrayed in a Hollywood film. It is a constant battle for his/her life survival at every turn. A video shows a US soldier taking on Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. The footage shows him pinned behind the tree-line, while under heavy fire. He manages to survive.

The UN-backed war crimes court in The Hague has decided to postpone proceedings against former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic indefinitely because he has cancer and is too ill to continue his trial.

A new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project to clear Turkey's eastern borders of land mines was launched on April 4, International Land Mine Awareness Day, at a hotel in Ankara with the participation of Defense Minister ?smet Y?ld?z.

Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Wednesday he "does not know whether Vojislav Seselj will be in The Hague on March 31."

The Hague Tribunal has scheduled the reading of the verdict for that day in the Seselj war crimes trial.

Vojislav Seselj has said that proceedings for his extradition to the Hague Tribunal have begun.

Addressing a news conference in the Serbian capital on Thursday, he said he would respond to the summons of "the War Crimes Court in Belgrade."

Groups from all walks of life in Turkey come together to call for peace on the anniversary of the design of the world-famous peace signOn Feb. 21, 1958, British artist and designer Gerald Holtom put a circle around the nuclear disarmament symbol, completing his design that would eventually become the globally-recognized peace symbol.

At least 23 civilians were killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns on Feb. 15, residents said, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo. 

Civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan rose to record levels for the seventh year in row in 2015, as violence spread across the country in the wake of the withdrawal of most international troops, the United Nations reported on Feb. 14.