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NATO says troops may have killed 3 Afghan civilians (Reuters)

November 10th, 2010

Reuters - The NATO-led force in Afghanistan said it was investigating whether its troops had inadvertently killed three Afghan civilians on Wednesday while its forces fought insurgents in the south…

Attacks hit Kandahar, killing 2 Afghan civilians (AP)

October 16th, 2010

An Afghan soldier performs the call for prayers at Howz-e-Madad Forward Operating Base, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A series of blasts killed at least two civilians and wounded several others Saturday in Afghanistan’s main southern city, the scene of several recent deadly attacks on police.


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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…

Homemade bombs kill 3 US troops in Afghanistan (AP)

August 27th, 2010

A U.S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division walks along a road during a day of joint missions with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010. Soldiers in Zhari operate in a district which is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, and holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with a support network providing them with explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Homemade bombs killed three U.S. troops in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Friday, and a roadside blast tore through a crowded market in the increasingly volatile north, killing…

NATO: Roadside bomb kills 3 Afghan civilians (AP)

August 11th, 2010

Relatives and friends carry coffin of Jawed, 27, one of the two Afghans killed by gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, from a morgue in a military hospital in Kabul. The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of six Americans citizens who were among eight foreigners gunned down in northeastern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban, a US official said Monday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed three Afghan civilians, NATO forces said Wednesday.


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APNewsBreak: AU troops harming Somali civilians (AP)

July 21st, 2010

A nurse at Medina hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, attend to a wounded child after she was wounded by mortar shell Monday, July 19, 2010. At least 12 people, including two government soldiers, were killed in two days of battle between Islamist militants and government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers, officials said Monday.(AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)AP - African Union peacekeepers are indiscriminately shelling residential areas of Somalia’s capital, according to internal AU reports reviewed by The Associated Press. The AU blamed the deaths on insurgents…

Suicide bomb in Afghan capital kills 3 civilians (AP)

July 18th, 2010

An aerial view from a US helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A suicide bombing in eastern Kabul killed three civilians on Sunday, two days before an international conference that will host representatives from about 60 nations, an Afghan official said.


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6 US troops, 12 civilians killed in Afghan attacks (AP)

July 10th, 2010

Smoke comes out from the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 10, 2010. One bystander was killed when the bomb, concealed in a parked motorcycle, exploded in the middle of the afternoon, said  the city's security chief. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks Saturday in Afghanistan’s volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as…

NATO accepts blame for killing 6 Afghan civilians (AP)

July 9th, 2010

Afghan children watch as a  United States soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, walks past during a patrol in the village of Pir-e-Paymal in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City, Wednesday, July 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - NATO took the blame on Friday for accidentally killing six civilians and wounding several others in eastern Afghanistan — just a day after five Afghan soldiers died in…

NATO, civilians give 2 accounts of fatal operation (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Afghans secure coffins containing bodies of civilians, who were killed in an operation in Kandahar last night, on a vehicle in Kandahar June 28, 2010. Eight Afghans were killed - including a father and four sons - in a pre-dawn raid in southern Kandahar province, villagers said. Locals said those killed were civilians, but the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it killed several armed men and a Taliban commander. REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem  (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)AP - NATO said Monday that a Taliban commander was among several armed individuals killed during a search operation in Kandahar, but residents claim the troops killed eight innocent civilians,…