Palestinian civilians running away for safety from an Israeli bomb containing white phosphorus. The target of the bombing was a UN school.
Gaza Strip - January 17, 2009
Palestinians running for their lives from an Israeli bomb moments before impact.
Gaza Strip - 2008
The aftermath from the firebombing of Dresden.
After three days of bombing, 15 square miles of the city were destroyed - taking along with it many medieval landmarks and thousands of lives.
Less than three months later Germany would surrender and end the war in Europe.
The bombing of Barcelona by Nationalist forces loyal to Francisco Franco.
Spanish Civil War - 1938
A British plane spotter on a rooftop in London on the lookout for German airplanes during the Blitz.
The building featured prominently in the background is St Paul’s Cathedral.
At least eight people have been killed so far today in the Afghan capital of Kabul amid two (possibly three) suicide bombings as well as gunfire from gunmen. Police are still battling with the armed gunmen in the city.
Today is Independence Day in Afghanistan, which it obtained from Britain in 1919.
Current time in Kabul: 11:00 AM
In April of 1998 the Good Friday Agreement was signed, marking a new way forward for peace in Northern Ireland between those loyal to the UK and Ireland.
Despite the Agreement, some ex-members of the IRA formed a new splinter-group called the “Real IRA”, planned a bombing to show their opposition.
Months later they planted a 500 pound (230 kg) bomb within the trunk of a car in a busy section of Omagh. The picture above is that of a man and his daughter standing unknowingly next to the explosive-laden vechicle minutes before it exploded.
The man and his daughter survived. However 29 people would die and more than 300 were wounded.
Nobody has ever been found guilty in relation to a crime regarding the bombing.
Omagh, Northern Ireland - August 15, 1998.
As a sign of what was to come in the next few years, one of the first ever bombings on a civilian population took place in Guernica, Spain on April 26, 1937.
In order to help the Spanish Nationalist cause, planes from the Germany and Italy took part in the air raids. Casualty rates differ by source, but there were at least a few hundred deaths along with a large amount of damage to the town.
The bombing would inspire Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica, painted as a gesture against war and as a way to bring attention to the events which transpired that day.
