Saudi-led airstrike in residential area of Yemen have killed at least 120

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike in a residential area in a quiet Red Sea town in Yemen, has left at least 120 dead – it is believed to be the deadliest strike against civilians since the beginning of offensive in March. The airstrikes hit workers' housing for a power plant in Mokha and flattened some of the buildings to the ground. There was also a fire in the area and many of the corpses were charred beyond recognition. Most of them were of children, women and elderly people.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 26 July 2015.

Subsequent to the airstrike, the coalition announced that it would start a five-day humanitarian pause.
Many of the workers had with them families who had come to visit for the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The population of Mokha is mostly fisherman and it had a reputation as one of the safest places in the country embroiled in war.
Rights groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have already expressed concern that the Saudi-led coalition is violating laws of war and is not doing enough to prevent or minimize civilian casualties.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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The situation in the Middle East, especially in Iraq and Syria, keeps changing every minute and latest reports indicate that the IS militants are literally knocking at the doorsteps of Baghdad news.sky.com – within 2-Km as some reports mention.
Local residents are afraid to leave their houses and the roads are deserted in anticipation of imminent attacks and violence.
The revelations have been made by Canon Andrew White – in his words, the IS militants were reportedly only a mile away from the capital amid clashes with Iraqi soldiers. Moreover, there has also been renewed fighting in the central cities of Baquba and Ramadi.
The situation in Syria is no better – in spite of the recent coalition airstrikes, fighters from IS are believed to have come to within three miles of the strategic border town of Kobani.
Canon White is the vicar of St George's Church - the only Anglican Church in Iraq – and he has said that civilians were being killed by coalition air raids in Iraq.
He feels that that his church would be "very high up" on the extremist group's target list and he himself would be at the very top of the list.