Reports: Gadhafi Forces Using Cluster Bombs
Reports from Human Rights Watch say that the Gadhafi regime has used some cluster munitions in the siege of the city of Misrata. The Libyan government has denied the allegations, but the reports were...
View ArticleCluster Bomb Conference Urges Destruction of Remaining Stockpiles
Representatives from 123 different governments are expected to arrive in the Lebanese capital of Beirut this week as a four-day conference kicked off today to discuss the international ban on cluster...
View ArticleDespite US Opposition, Cluster-Bomb Ban Moving Forward
Last week’s cluster bomb conference has come to an end, and according to Human Rights Watch has had a powerful impact, and the goals of moving forward with the destruction of the arsenal globally looks...
View ArticleUS Bid to Destroy Cluster Bomb Ban Fails
President Obama’s effort to effective emasculate the international ban on cluster bombs failed today, when at least 50 nations including Britain filed objections. Human rights campaigners had been...
View ArticleUN Confirms Cluster Bomblets Found in Sri Lanka
Allan Poston, a UN expert on land mines, has confirmed today that a UN team has discovered unexploded cluster bomblets in northern Sri Lanka, not far from the location where a child was killed in a...
View ArticleSaudis Using US-Supplied Cluster Bombs in Yemen
Human rights groups are complaining that there is growing evidence of Saudi warplanes dropping cluster bombs, provided to them by the United States on targets in Yemen’s northwest. A global ban on...
View ArticleUN Chief: Saudi Use of US-made Cluster Bombs in Yemen Could Be a War Crime
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has issued a statement today warning that the Saudi Arabian coalition’s intense airstrikes against residential areas, and apparent indiscriminate use of cluster bombs...
View ArticleBombs Hit Vegetable Market in Northern Syria City of Idlib
According to the local White Helmets Civil Defense group, a series of airstrikes hit a produce market on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Idlib, the de facto capital city of the territory...
View ArticleCluster Bomb Attack Against East Syrian Village Kills at Least 30 Civilians
A warplane from an unidentified air force has attacked the eastern Syrian village of Doblan, along the Euphrates River, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, who said that cluster...
View ArticlePentagon Indefinitely Delays Cluster Bomb Ban
According to officials, the Pentagon’s planned ban on older types of cluster bombs, scheduled to go into effect at the start of 2019, has been delayed indefinitely, with the leadership arguing that...
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