The Latest Breaking News from Mirjana Spoljaric

At its 75th anniversary, the world’s best-known rulebook on the protection of civilians, detainees and wounded soldiers in war has been widely ignored and its defenders are seeking a new commitment to international humanitarian law

UN aid chief says notion that people in Gaza could evacuate to a safe place is an ‘illusion’.

IDF steps up attacks in north and south and says it has raided Hamas HQ, as increase in civilian deaths reported

Israeli military issues evacuation call – but Palestinians say there is nowhere safe to go. ‘No one can describe the fear, horror and the suffering we are facing,’ one south Gaza resident tells The Independent

Nearly 17,000 civilian deaths were recorded across 12 conflicts around the world last year, a 53% rise.

The U.N. chief is decrying the “terrible truth” that the world is failing to live up to its commitments to protect a growing number of civilians caught in conflicts

Rescuers were scouring debris on Friday nearly 100 hours after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing at least 21,000 people in one of the region's worst disasters for a century. The first UN aid deliveries arrived on Thursday in Syrian rebel-held zones, but chances of finding survivors have…

Latest exchange suggests some contact remains between two sides despite intense fighting in Ukraine’s east and south.

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday that a major prisoner of war swap deal was a "possibility" in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.