Mujahid said on X that six others were wounded in the attack.
Of these 264 were children, making up 82.5 percent of all casualties, according to the ICRC.
The Hamas-run media office said in a statement that the strikes hit when people sheltering at the school were performing dawn prayers, leading to many casualties.
In the 76 countries in which the U.S. is currently fighting terrorism, at least three have been incredibly deadly: Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And as the...
UNAMA said on Sunday it is deeply concerned by reports of civilian casualties, including women and children, as a result of airstrikes in Khost and Kunar...
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday said in a new report that in the first six months of this year, 5,321 civilians have...
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afganistan warned Monday it is concerned about the increasing number of reports of killing, ill-treatment, persecution and discrimination in communities...
Afghan National Security Council’s (NSC) spokesman Ramatullah Andar said that since the start of the foreign troops’ withdrawal process, on May 1, the Taliban has conducted...
The US military says air and ground operations it conducted in Afghanistan last year unintentionally killed 20 civilians. According to an annual report on civilian casualties...
The UN team in Afghanistan said that heavy civilian casualties recently documented by the UN mission underscores the need for all parties to do much more...
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported Tuesday there was an urgent need to reduce the level of violence and that all parties to the...
At least 11 civilians were killed Thursday morning in a roadside IED blast in Helmand province, security officials said. According to the officials the blast occurred...
The Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) says that during the month of Ramadan so far (April 13 to May 7), 130 security incidents were recorded resulting...
At least 243 civilians including women and children were killed or wounded in the past 10 days in Taliban attacks and explosions across the country, the...
UNAMA has found that the number of civilians killed and injured in the first three months of 2021 was significantly higher than a year ago. In...
At least three policemen were killed and eight people, including five NDS forces, wounded in two separate blasts in the country on Sunday, officials said. The...
There has been an increase in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace talks in September, UNAMA said Tuesday. According to the...
An armored Land Cruiser belonging to the Italian Embassy was targeted in an early morning IED explosion in Kabul’s PD4 area in yet another targeted attack....
At least five civilians were killed in an airstrike in Helmand province, local officials said Thursday. The airstrike was carried out Wednesday night in Bushran area...
At least 261 civilians have been killed and 602 wounded in Taliban offensives in the past 50 days, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) confirmed Saturday. “The...