A high-ranking US commander has admitted that there was a “fair chance” that a coalition airstrike in western Mosul killed a large number of Iraqi civiliansl, as the UN and Amnesty International called for greater efforts to protect civilians. “We probably had a role in those casualties,” said Lieutenant General ...
Two foreign UN contractors who were kidnapped in DR Congo have been found dead, one of them decapitated, the government said Tuesday, as spiraling violence in the vast country sparked international condemnation. The bodies of American Michael Sharp and Swedish national Zaida Catalan were found as the UN Security Council ...