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Ukrainians visit an avenue where destroyed Russian military hardware is displayed in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Aug. 22)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

August 22, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Workers clean up wreckage at the Amstor Mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, after the building was hit by a Russian cruise missile.

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  • World

Russian missiles blast civilians in Ukraine

A Russian missile struck a crowded shopping mall last month, killing 21 people and injuring dozens more. It was just one of many instances when Russia hit Ukraine's civilian areas.

July 12, 2022
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  • Jason Beaubien
Blanca Nubia Monroy photographed at her home in Bogotá, Colombia. Her son Julián Oviedo was kidnapped and killed in 2008. The Colombian army is accused of taking civilians, killing them, and disguising them as guerrilla fighters to falsify higher body counts.

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  • Latin America

Colombia's tribunal exposes how troops kidnapped and killed thousands of civilians

Colombian army officers kidnapped and executed over 6,400 civilians from 2002 to 2008 and falsely reported them as Marxist guerrillas killed in combat to boost body counts, a special tribunal found.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
Blanca Nubia Monroy photographed at her home in Bogotá, Colombia. Her son Julián Oviedo was kidnapped and killed in 2008. The Colombian army is accused of taking civilians, killing them, and disguising them as guerrilla fighters to falsify higher body counts.

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  • Latin America

Colombia's tribunal exposes how troops kidnapped and killed thousands of civilians

Colombian army officers kidnapped and executed over 6,400 civilians from 2002 to 2008 and falsely reported them as Marxist guerrillas killed in combat to boost body counts, a special tribunal found.

June 28, 2022
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  • John Otis
People walk near a destroyed tank and damaged buildings in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 22)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 22, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
People walk near a destroyed tank and damaged buildings in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Friday.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 22)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 22, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Crews carry body bags as they search for remains and remove debris in the Borodyanka area outside Ukraine's capital of Kyiv on Friday.

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Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 15)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 15, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
A priest and relatives on Tuesday stand near the exhumed body of Gostomel's mayor, Yuriy Prylypko, who had been buried near a church in the village in the Kyiv region. Prylypko, 62, was killed on March 7 after Russian forces rolled into his village.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 12)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 12, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Workers remove a destroyed Russian military tank from the road near Andriivka, a village close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 11)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 11, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, speaks as a picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is displayed during a news briefing on Oct. 30, 2019, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. McKenzie spoke to reporters to provide an update on the special operations raid that targeted the Islamic State leader in Idlib province, Syria.

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NPR sues the Pentagon for info on possible civilian deaths during the Baghdadi raid

NPR has sued the Defense Department to get it to release files regarding possible civilian casualties during the 2019 raid in Syria that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

December 11, 2021
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  • Daniel Estrin
Australia has sent more than 25,000 troops, 3,000 of them special forces, in rotations from 2005 to 2016 to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. An Australia military inquiry report said it found credible information of suspected unlawful killings of civilians and efforts to cover up the incidents.

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  • World

'I Remember Them Screaming': Afghans Detail Alleged Killings By Australian Military

Afghans are coming forward to describe past alleged killings by Australian forces, as the Australian government launches investigations into its troops' suspected war crimes in Afghanistan.

April 25, 2021
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  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Khwaga Ghani

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