#civilian-casualties

#civilian-casualties

The world's first hub for child blast injury research has been opened in London with an immediate focus on providing support to victims in Ukraine.The Centre For Paediatric Blast Injury Studies, a partnership between Imperial College London and Save The Children, will particularly focus on reducing pain in children with limb loss and developing new prosthetics.

The US military is set to launch a formal investigation into a drone strike in Syria in early May, six weeks after the operation and following reports it killed a civilian rather than a senior al-Qaeda leader as first claimed, three defense officials familiar with the matter told CNN.The anticipated opening of the more formal inquiry, known as a 15-6, is the clearest sign yet that US Central Command may have botched the drone strike in northwest Syria on May 3. In the immediate aftermath of the strike, Gen. Erik Kurilla, the commander of Central Command, and his staff had high confidence that they had targeted and killed a senior al-Qaeda leader.

The US military is investigating a strike in Syria earlier this month that may have resulted in a civilian being killed, according to a statement from US Central Command.The strike, carried out on May 3 in northwest Syria, targeted a senior al-Qaeda leader, Central Command said in a tweet announcing the operation that day.

President Joe Biden on Saturday notified Congress of his decision to authorize an airstrike in Syria this week against what the US said were Iranian-affiliated facilities.The US airstrike came after a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility housing US personnel in the country, killing an American contractor and wounding five US service members.

Until gunfire broke out on the streets of El Fasher this month, the state capital of North Darfur had several main hospitals.There was the big teaching hospital, the Saudi hospital, a paediatric hospital and the South hospital, a modest 35-bed facility with big ambitions and a specific remit: to help bring down the high numbers of local women dying in pregnancy and childbirth.

By Karl Ritter | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine Russia's advance seems to have stalled in Moscow's campaign to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a leading think tank said in an assessment of the longest ground battle of the war.The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said there were no confirmed advances by Russian forces in Bakhmut.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is nearly a year old, with Vladimir Putin having announced the launch of what Moscow calls a special military operation last February Western nations have ramped up military suport for Kyiv this week, with Germany and the US both announcing that they would send tanks to Ukraine.