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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
A U.S. military airstrike this week killed 47 civilians traveling to a wedding, the head of an Afghan government commission investigating the incident said Friday. The airstrike on Sunday in Deh Bala district of Nuristan province also wounded nine...
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News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
A nine-member team, appointed by President Hamid Karzai to investigate the incident, found that only civilians had been killed in the strike on the remote Deh Bala district, AFP reported Friday. "We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children,...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
The US-led coalition has steadfastly denied that it killed civilians in the July 6 strikes in the mountains of eastern Nangarhar province, saying only extremist militants had died. But a nine-member team appointed by President Hamid Karzai to look...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
An official investigation has found that US-led air strikes a week ago struck a wedding and killed 47 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, an official said Friday. The US-led coalition has steadfastly denied that it killed civilians in...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 year ago
AN official investigation has found that US-led air strikes a week ago struck a wedding and killed 47 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, an official said today. The US-led coalition has steadfastly denied that it killed civilians in...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 year ago
It has called on all parties to the conflict to avoid civilian casualties. Nato said separately that more than 900 people including civilians had died in Afghanistan since the start of 2008. On Monday a suicide bombing in Kabul killed more than 40...
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News Source: Times Daily
| about 1 year ago
Afghanistan — In a massive explosion that reverberated around the city, a suicide bomber killed at least 40 people and injured 140 close to the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital Monday, the Interior Ministry said. The bomber rammed a car into...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
People injured in the strike were taken to hospital At least 20 people have been killed in a missile strike by coalition forces in Afghan's eastern Nangarhar province. Local people say that the group was a wedding party and that most of the dead were...
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News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 year ago
Nangarhar Paktika, Paktia, Nuristan and other provinces during a month...Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai condemned the attacks as inhuman acts against Afghans. "Foreign forces should stop killing civilians and flouting all human values in Afghanistan," he...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
The Afghan parliament condemned Monday civilian casualties in US-led air strikes after Afghan officials said more than 40 people were killed in two recent raids, including one that struck a wedding. The UN representative to Afghanistan, Kai Eide,...