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25 may have been killed in Afghanistan airstrike (AP)

October 25th, 2010

An unidentified UN security person, front, shows the place of yesterday's attack to the UN's Special Representative in Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura, center, at the UN compound in Herat, west of Kabul, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed, officials said.(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - About 25 people may have been killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Monday, an Afghan official said.


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Officials: Airstrike kills 4 militants in Pakistan (AP)

September 12th, 2010

A MQ-9 Predator B, an Unmaned Aircraft System, at a ceremony to celebrate the authorization from the FAA to use the aircraft to patrol the Texas-Mexico land border, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike early Sunday killed at least four associates of a warlord who is fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.


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Officials: Airstrike kills 3 militants in Pakistan (AP)

September 12th, 2010

A flood victim boy points his toy gun at a baby in a hammock as they play inside their family tent during Eid-al-Fitr celebrations while taking refuge in a relief camp in Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province September 11, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike early Sunday killed at least three suspected associates of a warlord who is fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.


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Afghan president says airstrike killed civilians (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this…

Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas rocket maker (AP)

July 31st, 2010

Palestinians wheel a wounded man at the Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, late Friday, July 30, 2010. Late Friday, Israel targeted back two buildings in Gaza used by Hamas militants as a training facility, Palestinian security officials said.Gaza militants fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Ashkelon early Friday. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)AP - Israeli warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people, the group said Saturday.


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NATO airstrike accidentally kills 5 Afghan troops (AP)

July 7th, 2010

A US soldier keeps watch in Kandahar City in June, 2010. NATO Wednesday added three deaths to the toll of foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, all of them killed by crude bombs favoured by the insurgents.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AP - NATO mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an airstrike Wednesday while the Afghans were attacking insurgents in the country’s east, officials said.


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Israeli airstrike kills 3 militants in north Gaza (AP)

June 1st, 2010

Hamas security officers patrol on Gaza's seaport, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Palestinians in Gaza declared a general strike and a day of wrath following Israel's deadly naval raid on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - An Islamic militant group in the Gaza Strip says three of its members have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza.


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Yemen airstrike on al-Qaida hide-out, clash kill 6 (AP)

May 25th, 2010

AP - An overnight government airstrike on what was believed to be an al-Qaida hide-out in a remote Yemen province accidentally killed a provincial councilman and his two bodyguards, a…

Afghan government reports 6 civilian deaths (AP)

March 28th, 2010

Afghan policemen in Herat in August 2009. A string of roadside bomb attacks have killed six civilians and wounded five children in insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities have said.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AP - Hundreds of Afghans have protested a NATO airstrike in the country’s north that killed seven policemen. Separately, the government says six civilians were killed in weekend explosions.


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