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2 US troops, 11 Afghan civilians killed in south (AP)

June 11th, 2010

Soldiers with BRAVO Company, 1st battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment are silhouetted against a sunrise during a patrol outside the village of Nakhonay in Panjwai district, southern Afghanistan, June 10, 2010. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovAP - Two U.S. troops and at least 11 civilians died in violence across southern Afghanistan on Friday, including one attack in which a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew…

8 Afghan civilians killed in fighting, bombing (AP)

June 3rd, 2010

A security guard keeps watch on an alleged Taliban militant who was captured alive during a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a national peace conference as it opened Wednesday in the Afghan capital, sparking gunbattles outside the venue. (AP Photo/Fardin Waezi)AP - A clash between Afghan forces and Taliban militants left four civilians dead in a southern district where a major NATO operation early this year was meant to reassert…

Jamaica official: 44 civilians dead in Kingston (AP)

May 26th, 2010

A police officer monitors Park Lane, a thoroughfare adjacent to Red Hills Road in the capital city of Kingston, Jamaica, Monday May 24, 2010. Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.(AP Photo/The Jamaica Gleaner, Ian Allen)  JAMAICA OUTAP - Jamaican security forces claimed a tenuous hold over the slum stronghold of a gang leader sought by the U.S., but only after battles that killed at least 44…

Yemeni cleric calls for killing US civilians (AP)

May 23rd, 2010

FILE - This Oct. 2008 file photo provided by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Al-Awlaki, an American-Yemeni cleric whose Internet sermons have helped inspire attacks on the U.S. is advocating the killing of American civilians in a new al-Qaida video posted Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)AP - A U.S.-born cleric who has encouraged Muslims to kill American soldiers called for the killing of U.S. civilians in his first video released by a Yemeni offshoot of…

Yemeni cleric advocates killing US civilians (AP)

May 23rd, 2010

AP - An American-Yemeni cleric whose Internet sermons have helped inspire attacks on the U.S. is advocating the killing of American civilians in a new al-Qaida video.

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NATO: Shooting victims were 4 Afghan civilians (AP)

April 21st, 2010

Afghans carry bodies of four people killed when they ignored warnings to stop by one of NATO's convoys in Khost province late Monday, southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. NATO said two of those killed in the incident were later identified as 'known insurgents,' although the provincial chief of police said the dead were all civilians, and included a 12-year-old child. (AP Photo)AP - NATO acknowledged Wednesday that four unarmed Afghans who were killed this week when a military convoy opened fire on their vehicle were all civilians, correcting an earlier claim…

200,000 civilians flee Pakistan military offensive (AP)

April 12th, 2010

A man stands amid the rubble of a government agriculture office in Khyber Agency, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, after it was destroyed early morning April 11, 2010. Suspected militants blew up a government agriculture office in Bara, Khyber Agency on Sunday, local media reported. There were no casualties. REUTERS/Stringer     (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS AGRICULTURE)AP - More than 200,000 people have fled Pakistan’s latest offensive against Taliban militants in the northwest, the United Nations said Monday, as fresh clashes in the remote region killed…

321 civilians killed in 2009 massacre in Congo (AP)

March 27th, 2010

AP - At least 321 civilians were killed in a previously unreported massacre in Congo in late 2009, while villagers that escaped their rebel captors were sent back with their…

Roadside bomb kills 6 civilians in Afghanistan (AP)

March 13th, 2010

A NATO soldier is seen keeping watch during a patrol through the main street of Tirin Kot, the capital city of the Afghan southern province of Uruzgan. A roadside bomb exploded in Tirin Kot on Saturday, killing six people travelling in a civilian vehicle, according to the interior ministry.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AP - A remote-controlled bomb killed six Afghan civilians Saturday as they traveled in a central province, an official said.


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Bomb kills NATO service member, 4 Afghan civilians (AP)

March 1st, 2010

Afghan and binternational/b security forces at the site of a suicide attack in southern city of Kandahar on February 13. A suicide car bomb attack targeting a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan killed at least four Afghan civilians on Monday, the Afghan interior ministry said.(AFP/File/Hamed Zalmy)AP - A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy crossing a bridge outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday, tossing a military vehicle into a ravine and…