Yemen's army has warned Saudi Arabia it will respond with strength after the kingdom launched a "large-scale" assault on the impoverished nation.

US air strikes across the Middle East have killed thousands of civilians.

A Pentagon investigation claims that the US drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul in late August did not violate any laws, including the laws of war, and was not caused by misconduct or negligence.

Government compensation logs show the UK has accepted responsibility for the deaths of less than 300 Afghan civilians, including 86 children, during two decades of war in Afghanistan.

A UN panel says at least 18,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed or wounded by Saudi airstrikes in 2015.

Two civilians are killed in a Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq, where Turkey is pressing ahead with a military campaign against the PKK militants.

The United Nations refugee agency says thousands of Afghan civilians are likely to flee their homes due to the ongoing Taliban advances across various parts of war-ravaged Afghanistan.

Suspected Taliban militants have fired a rocket at a hospital in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, sparking a blaze that caused extensive damage and destroyed COVID-19 vaccines.

Villagers have blocked a US military convoy in the country’s northeastern province of Hasakah, and forced the troops to head back to their base.

At least three civilians have been killed after artillery rounds fired by Saudi-led coalition forces targeted an area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.