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More than 220 Iraqi civilians were subjected to "systemic abuse", including torture, by British soldiers and interrogators in Iraq, the High Court was told on Friday.

Despite years of experience and billions of dollars, the peacekeeping force still seems to be failing at its task of protecting civilians.

Platoon members charged with dismembering and photographing corpses, as well as hoarding a skull and other human bones, Army sources reveal.

The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq almost doubled in July from June, a sign that insurgents may be trying to exploit political tensions after an election that produced no outright winner.

Maoist rebels blew up a bus filled with police and civilians Monday as it drove through central India, authorities said. News reports said 40 people were killed in the attack....

Western military officials acknowledge that none of those in a car fired on by soldiers had links to the insurgency.

The investigative organization WikiLeaks on Monday released military video of what it describes as three incidents of an "indiscriminate slaying" by U.S. forces near Baghdad on July 12, 2007.

A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan has killed 33 people after an aircraft fired on civilians mistakenly thought to be insurgents, the Afghan government said on Monday.

U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.

The deaths are the first civilian casualties since the start of the attack on the Taliban stronghold of Marja. NATO says it is suspending use of the weapons system used in the deadly strike.

Reporting from The Outskirts Of Marja, Afghanistan, and Kabul -- As U.S.