Armed Civilians Attack U.N. Peacekeepers
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Bands of former soldiers and armed residents looted police arsenals, set bonfires and fired shots into the air amid escalating chaos in this impoverished Caribbean nation.
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United Nations human rights monitors on   Friday accused Sudan's military of dropping bombs on villages   in North Darfur, killing and injuring civilians and driving   many from their homes.
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Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest slum Friday to arrest gang members and take control of the area &#151; sparking a gun battle that wounded at least two soldiers, the top U.N. commander said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A gunbattle broke out between UN peacekeepers and supporters of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide yesterday, wounding a peacekeeper for the first time in the force&#39;s 4-month-old mission.
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The indiscriminate killing of civilians by death squads and insurgents in Iraq reaches new levels, the UN says.
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Gunmen on horseback attacked a truck carrying medicine and aid in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region and killed around 30 civilians on board, some of whom were burned alive, the United Nations said on Sunday.
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A gunbattle broke out between U.N. peacekeepers and supporters of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Saturday, wounding a peacekeeper for the first time in the force's 4-month-old mission.
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U.N. human rights monitors on Friday  accused Sudan's army of bombing villages in North Darfur,  killing and injuring civilians, and forcing hundreds of people  to flee their homes.
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The BBC reports new government attacks on rebel territory in Ivory Coast. The United Nations condemned a series of air strikes on towns held by the rebels.
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Human rights groups report bombings, as aid workers warn a 'vacuum' in peacekeeping threatens their work.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan, saying the government has failed to rein in militias.
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African Union peacekeepers killed three Darfur refugees during a demonstration, the first civilian deaths at the hands of the force and a sign of further deterioration in the conflict, a U.N. official said Monday.
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As violence suddenly spikes in Baghdad and northern Iraq, the U.N. releases a new estimate of civilian fatalities
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Two UN peacekeepers are shot in Haiti over the weekend amid increasing tensions on the island.
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French troops in Ivory Coast have been accused of over-reacting and killing up to 30 unarmed civilians in retaliation for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.
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Renegade army soldiers in eastern Congo massacred at least 30 civilians, including women and children, to avenge the deaths of three of their troops, the United Nations said Friday.
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The Sudanese government is indiscriminately bombing civilian-occupied villages in Darfur, a human rights group charged. France on Thursday raised the idea of sending U.N. peacekeepers to the war-torn region even without Sudanese permission.