Attacks on humanitarian workers, the Glossary

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1. 189 relations: Abéché, Abuja, Aceh, Action Against Hunger, Aden, Afghanistan, Aid agency, Aid Worker Security Database, Aleppo, Algeria, Algiers, Allied Democratic Forces, Ambon Island, Angola, Anil Raj, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Arua, Arusha, Atambua, Badghis Province, Baghdad, Balad, Somalia, Banda Aceh, Batticaloa, BBC News, Belgrade, Belu Regency, Biafra, Boko Haram, Borno State, Bosaso, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bujumbura, Bundibugyo, Burundi, Canal Hotel bombing, CARE International, Center for Civilians in Conflict, Central African Republic, Chad, Chechens, Chechnya, Cibitoke Province, Clan, Cold War, Collective punishment, Colombo, Combatant, Concern (organisation), Dadaab, ... Expand index (139 more) »

2. Lists of attacks
3. Violations of medical neutrality

Abéché

Abéché (أبشه, Absha) is the fourth largest city in Chad and is the capital of Ouaddaï Region.

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Abuja

Abuja is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria.

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Aceh

Aceh (Acèh, Jawoë: اچيه), officially the Province of Aceh (Provinsi Aceh, Nanggroë Acèh, Jawoë: نڠڬرواي اچيه), is the westernmost province of Indonesia.

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Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger (Action Contre La Faim - ACF) is a global humanitarian organization which originated in France and is committed to ending world hunger.

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Aden

Aden (Old South Arabian: 𐩲𐩵𐩬) is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Aid agency

An aid agency, also known as development charity, is an organization dedicated to distributing aid.

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Aid Worker Security Database

The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) is a project of the international research group Humanitarian Outcomes. Attacks on humanitarian workers and Aid Worker Security Database are humanitarian aid.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Algiers

Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.

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Allied Democratic Forces

The Allied Democratic Forces (Forces démocratiques alliées; abbreviated ADF) is an Islamist rebel group in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), considered a terrorist organisation by the Ugandan government.

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Ambon Island

Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Anil Raj

Anil Raj (April 1, 1984 – November 24, 2019) was an American human rights activist who served on the board of Amnesty International.

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Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a non-governmental organization specializing in disaggregated conflict data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping.

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Arua

Arua is a city and commercial centre within the Arua District in the Northern Region of Uganda.

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Arusha

Arusha City is a Tanzanian city, with a population of 617,631, Population of the major cities in Tanzania and the regional capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 2,356,255 (2022 census).

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Atambua

Atambua is the regency seat of Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

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Badghis Province

Bādghīs (Dari) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northwest of the country, on the border with Turkmenistan.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Balad, Somalia

Bal'ad District (italic) is one of the districts of Middle Shabelle region of Somalia.

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Banda Aceh

Banda Aceh (Acehnese: Banda Acèh, Jawoë: بند اچيه) is the capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, Indonesia.

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Batticaloa

Batticaloa (மட்டக்களப்பு, Maṭṭakkaḷappu; මඩකලපුව, Maḍakalapuwa) is a major city in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, and its former capital.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Belu Regency

Belu Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.

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Biafra

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a partially recognised state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970.

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Boko Haram

Boko Haram, officially known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (lit), is an Islamist jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, which is also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali.

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Borno State

Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria.

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Bosaso

Bosaso (Boosaaso, بوصاصو), historically known as Bender Cassim is a city in the northeastern Bari province (gobol) of Somalia.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Bujumbura

Bujumbura, formerly Usumbura, is the economic capital, largest city and main port of Burundi.

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Bundibugyo

Bundibugyo is a town in the Western Region of Uganda.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.

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Canal Hotel bombing

The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003.

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CARE International

CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects.

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Center for Civilians in Conflict

The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO).

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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Chechens

The Chechens (Нохчий,, Old Chechen: Нахчой, Naxçoy), historically also known as Kisti and Durdzuks, are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group of the Nakh peoples native to the North Caucasus.

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Chechnya

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia.

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Cibitoke Province

Cibitoke Province is one of the 18 provinces of Republic of Burundi.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Collective punishment

Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group or whole community for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population.

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Combatant

Combatant is the legal status of a person entitled to directly participate in hostilities during an armed conflict, and may be intentionally targeted by an adverse party for their participation in the armed conflict. Attacks on humanitarian workers and Combatant are law of war.

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Concern (organisation)

Concern is a student organisation in Indian Institute of Science, which tries to generate debate on socio-politico-economic issues in the academic and scientific community of Bangalore.

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Dadaab

Dadaab (Dhadhaab) is a semi-arid town in Garissa County, Kenya.

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Dagestan

Dagestan (Дагестан), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea.

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Darfur

Darfur (Fur) is a region of western Sudan.

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David Haines (aid worker)

David Haines (9 May 1970 – 13 September 2014) was a British aid worker who was captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in early 2013 and beheaded in early September 2014.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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Drive-by shooting

A drive-by shooting is a type of assault that usually involves the perpetrator(s) firing a weapon from within a motor vehicle and then fleeing.

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Egil Tynæs

Egil Kristian Tynæs (August 12, 1941 – June 2, 2004) was a Norwegian anthroposophical doctor, senior physician at the Municipal Clinic in Bergen and a humanitarian aid worker.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.

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Gayle Williams

Gayle Williams (18 December 1973 – 20 October 2008) was an aid worker for SERVE Afghanistan of joint British and South African nationality.

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Gaza flotilla raid

The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six civilian ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Geneva Conventions

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Ghazni

Ghazni (غزنی, غزني), historically known as Ghaznayn (غزنين) or Ghazna (غزنه), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana (Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan with a population of around 190,000 people.

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Gitega

Gitega, formerly Kitega, is the political capital of Burundi.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.

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Herat

Herāt (Pashto, هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan.

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Hiran, Somalia

Hiran (Hiiraan, هيران) is an administrative region (gobol) in central Somalia and part of the Hirshabelle State.

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Homs

Homs (حِمْص / ALA-LC:; Levantine Arabic: حُمْص / Ḥomṣ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa (Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate.

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Hostage

A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government—to act, or refrain from acting, in a certain way, often under threat of serious physical harm or death to the hostage(s) after expiration of an ultimatum.

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Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.

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ICRC Hospital of Novye Atagi

The ICRC Hospital of Novye Atagi is an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital in Novye Atagi, Chechnya, Russia.

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Idlib Governorate

Idlib Governorate (مُحافظة ادلب / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Idlib) is one of the 14 governorates of Syria.

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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International Assistance Mission

The International Assistance Mission (IAM) is the longest continually serving non-profit organisation in Afghanistan.

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International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, May 29, is "an international day to pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication, and courage and to honor the memory of those who have lost their lives in the cause of peace.".

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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a worldwide humanitarian aid organization that reaches 160 million people each year through its 191 member National Societies.

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International humanitarian law

International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello). Attacks on humanitarian workers and International humanitarian law are law of war.

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.

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International Mission Board

The International Mission Board (or IMB, formerly the Foreign Mission Board) is a Christian missionary society affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization.

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International Solidarity Movement

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM; حركة التضامن العالمية) is a Palestinian-led movement focused on assisting the Palestinian cause in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام‌آباد|translit.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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Israel–Hamas war

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.

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Israeli Navy

The Israeli Navy (חיל הים הישראלי, Ḥeil HaYam HaYisraeli,; البحرية الإسرائيلية) is the naval warfare service arm of the Israel Defense Forces, operating primarily in the Mediterranean Sea theater as well as the Gulf of Eilat and the Red Sea theater.

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Jean Plicque

Jean Plicque (1931/1932 - 1964) was a French community development specialist who was murdered in the Democratic Republic of Congo by rebel forces in the midst of the Congo Crisis.

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Jihadi John

Mohammed Emwazi (born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri; محمد جاسمعبد الكريمعليان الظفيري; 17 August 1988 – 12 November 2015) was a British militant of Kuwaiti origin seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group Islamic State (IS) showing the beheadings of a number of captives in 2014 and 2015.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kandahar

Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of.

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Kayla Mueller

Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, United States.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kigali

Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda.

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Kismayo

Kismayo (Kismaayo, كيسمايو,; Chisimaio) is a port city in the southern Lower Juba (Jubbada Hoose) province of Somalia.

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Kunduz hospital airstrike

On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) in the city of Kunduz, in the province of the same name in northern Afghanistan.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Lesotho

Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Logar Province

Logar (Pashto/Dari: لوگر) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the eastern section of the country.

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Lord's Resistance Army

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian extremist organization operating in Central Africa and East Africa.

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Macenta

Macenta is one of fourteen cities in the country of Guinea, West Africa, in the south of the country.

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Makhachkala

Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and largest city of Dagestan, Russia.

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Marla Ruzicka

Marla Ruzicka (December 31, 1976 – April 16, 2005) was an American activist-turned-aid worker.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

italic (MSF; pronounced), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. Attacks on humanitarian workers and Médecins Sans Frontières are humanitarian aid.

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Merca

Merca (Marka, ماركا) is the capital city of the Lower Shebelle province of Somalia, a historic port city in the region.

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Military occupation

Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.

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Mogadishu

Mogadishu (also; Muqdisho, Wadaad: or Xamar, Wadaad:; مقديشو, Italian: Mogadiscio), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia.

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Monument to Canadian Aid Workers

The Monument to Canadian Aid Workers (French: Monument commémoratif de l'aide humanitaire canadienne) is a monument in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Mosul

Mosul (al-Mawṣil,,; translit; Musul; Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate.

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Mutur

Mutur, or Muttur, is a town in the Trincomalee District of Sri Lanka, located about 25 km south of Trincomalee, on the southern side of Trincomalee Harbour.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Non-combatant

Non-combatant is a term of art in the law of war and international humanitarian law to refer to civilians who are not taking a direct part in hostilities; persons, such as combat medics and military chaplains, who are members of the belligerent armed forces but are protected because of their specific duties (as currently described in Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, adopted in June 1977); combatants who are placed hors de combat; and neutral persons, such as peacekeepers, who are not involved in fighting for one of the belligerents involved in a war.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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North Darfur

North Darfur State (ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Šamāl Dārfūr; Shamal Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan.

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Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC; Flyktninghjelpen) is a humanitarian, non-governmental organisation that protects the rights of people affected by displacement.

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Novye Atagi

Novye Atagi (Но́вые Атаги́: Жима АтагӀа, Ƶima Ataġa) is a rural locality (a selo) in Shalinsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia, located south of Grozny.

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ODI (think tank)

ODI is a global affairs think tank, founded in 1960.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Panjwayi District

Panjwayi (پنجوايي; also spelled Panjwaye, Panjwaii, Panjway, Panjawyi, Panjwa'i, or Panjwai) is a district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

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Protected persons

Protected persons is a legal term under international humanitarian law and refers to persons who are under specific protection of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, their 1977 Additional Protocols, and customary international humanitarian law during an armed conflict.

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Protocol I

Protocol I (also Additional Protocol I and AP I) is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions concerning the protection of civilian victims of international war, such as "armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination, alien occupation or racist regimes".

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Protocol II

Protocol II is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts.

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Provincial Reconstruction Team

A Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) was a unit introduced by the United States government, consisting of military officers, diplomats, and reconstruction subject matter experts, working to support reconstruction efforts in unstable states.

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Qala e Naw

Qala-e-Naw (قلعه نو) is a town in Qala e Naw District and the capital of Badghis Province, in north-west Afghanistan.

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Rachel Corrie

Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American nonviolence activist and diarist.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rwanda

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Sanayee Development Organization

Sanayee Development Organization (SDO) is an Afghan non-governmental organization headquartered in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Sarajevo

Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits.

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Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international, non-governmental organization.

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Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Sérgio Vieira de Mello (15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years.

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Serbia

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.

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Serena Hotels

Serena Hotels is a hospitality company which operates up-scale hotels and resorts in East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia.

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SERVE Afghanistan

Serve Afghanistan is a charity registered in the UK which works in Afghanistan carrying out community development, education and training projects, particularly for Afghans with disabilities.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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Somali Region

The Somali Region (Deegaanka Soomaalida, Sumalē Kilil, Oromo: Naannoo somaalee, المنطقة الصومالية.), also known as Soomaali Galbeed and officially the Somali Regional State, is a regional state in eastern Ethiopia.

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Somalia

Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.

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Somaliland

Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa.

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South Sudan

South Sudan, officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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South Sudan People's Defence Forces

The South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF), formerly the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), is the army of the Republic of South Sudan.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Syrian Arab Red Crescent

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) (الهلال الأحمر العربي السوري Al-Hilal al-Aḥmar al-Arabi al-Souri) is a humanitarian nonprofit organization.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Taysir Hayb

Idier Wahid Taysir Hayb (or al-Heib) (تيسير الهيب; תייסיר אל-היב) is a Bedouin Israeli sergeant who shot International Solidarity Movement civilian activist Tom Hurndall, while on duty in Gaza on April 11, 2003.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.

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Tigray Region

The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia.

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Tom Hurndall

Thomas Hurndall (27 November 1981 – 13 January 2004) was a British photography student, a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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UNICEF

UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) was formed on 14 August 2003 by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1500 at the request of the Iraqi government to support national development efforts.

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United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1502

United Nations Security Council resolution 1502, adopted unanimously on 26 August 2003, after recalling resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000) and 1460 (2003), the council condemned violence against humanitarian workers and called upon all states to ensure that such incidents did not remain unpunished. Attacks on humanitarian workers and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1502 are humanitarian aid.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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UNRWA

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA, pronounced) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees.

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Vavuniya

Vavuniya (Romanized: Vavuniya,, Romanized: Vavuniyāva) is a city of Vavuniya District in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

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Viktor Popkov

Viktor Alekseyevich Popkov (Ви́ктор Алексе́евич Попко́в; June 17, 1946 – June 2, 2001) was a Russian dissident, Christian, humanitarian, human rights activist and journalist.

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War

War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity. Attacks on humanitarian workers and war crime are law of war.

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West Darfur

West Darfur State (Wilāyat Ḡarb Dārfūr), historically Dar Masalit, is one of the states of Sudan, and one of five comprising the Darfur region.

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West Timor

West Timor (Timor Barat) is an area covering the western part of the island of Timor, except for the district of Oecussi-Ambeno (an East Timorese exclave).

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World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that provides food relief.

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World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack

The World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack occurred on 1 April 2024, when Israeli drones targeted a three-car convoy belonging to the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the Gaza Strip, killing seven aid workers.

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World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide.

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World Humanitarian Day

World Humanitarian Day is an international day dedicated to recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have died working for humanitarian causes.

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.

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Zanzibar

Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

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2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers

The 2006 Trincomalee Massacre of NGO Workers, also known as the Muttur Massacre, took place on 4 or 5 August 2006, when 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF) were shot at close range in the city of Muttur, Sri Lanka, close to Trincomalee.

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2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash

On 23 March 2007, a Belarusian Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft operated by TransAVIAexport Airlines crashed in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, during the Battle of Mogadishu.

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2007 murder of Red Cross workers in Sri Lanka

Murder of Red Cross workers in Sri Lanka took place on June 3, 2007 when two minority Sri Lankan Tamil aid workers were detained by two men claiming to be policemen on June 1, 2007.

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See also

Lists of attacks

• Attacks on humanitarian workers
• Attacks on parachutists
• List of Islamist terrorist attacks
• List of antisemitic incidents in the United States
• List of attacks against African-American churches
• List of attacks against Israeli embassies and diplomats
• List of attacks against Latter-day Saint churches
• List of attacks attributed to FARC
• List of attacks attributed to the CPP–NPA
• List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
• List of attacks by the National Socialist Underground
• List of foreign military attacks on United States territory
• List of grenade attacks in Sweden
• List of invasions
• List of invasions in the 21st century
• List of mass stabbing incidents (2010–2019)
• List of mass stabbing incidents (2020–present)
• List of mass stabbing incidents (before 2010)
• List of mass stabbings in Germany
• List of ships attacked by Somali pirates
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of unsolved murders (1900–1979)
• List of unsolved murders (1980–1999)
• List of unsolved murders (2000–present)
• List of unsolved murders (before 1900)
• Lists of school-related attacks
• Louisiana black church fires

Violations of medical neutrality

• 1947 Yogyakarta Dakota incident
• 2009 Sobat River ambush
• 2017 Alindao massacre
• 2019 shipping of humanitarian aid to Venezuela
• 2021 Mekelle airstrikes
• Attacks on humanitarian workers
• Barsalogho aid convoy attack
• Battle of Tabankort (2019)
• Bloody Thursday (Bahrain)
• Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack
• Death of Abdulredha Buhmaid
• December 2010 Khar bombing
• Gajre ambush
• Gujba college massacre
• Health Care In Danger
• Hitsats massacre
• Kizlyar–Pervomayskoye hostage crisis
• Medical torture
• Operation Infinite Reach
• Rann bombing
• Shewa Robit ambulance massacre
• Togoga airstrike
• Unethical human experimentation

References

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