L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
27 October 2016Airstrikes hit school in Idilb province in Syria killing 35.
22 November 2016
All hospitals in the rebel-held section of the Syrian city of Aleppo are out of service after an air raid hit the last children’s hospital on Friday 18th November.
14 November 2016Myanmar soldiers tried to weed out about 400 Rohingya villagers following attacks on border security forces in Rakhine province.
9 November 2016Drone attacks damage not only physical but also mental health of civilians in Afghanistan.
16 November 2016A year and a half after the start of Yemen’s civil war, 80% of the population finds itself in need of humanitarian aid.
27 November 2016A coalition airstrike killed at least 60 people in a prison in the rebel controlled city of Hudaydah.
23 November 2016A suicide bomber blew himself up during a well attended Shia ceremony at the Baqir ul-Uloom mosque in the Darulaman area of Kabul.
6 October 2016Six people are reported dead in an attack thought to have been led by Islamic militants, al-Shabab, in Northeast Kenya.
9 October 2016On the 9th of October, several airstrikes targeted a Houthi funeral reception located in the capital of Yemen, Sana’a.
4 August 2016Dozens were attacked and killed with machetes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
13 June 2016At least 224 civilians have been killed during the first week of Ramadan in Syria.
30 September 2016More than 2.6 million Afghan refugees to be repatriated back to Afghanistan by the end of 2016