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Afghanistan says 40 Taliban killed in Farah
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
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US Marines and Afghan soldiers have managed to kill 40 militants in a joint operation in Afghanistan's west, the Afghan military claims. "At the request of the local population an operation was launched by the Afghan army and the US Marines in the district...
Tags: Afghanistan, afghans army, Kandahar, roadside bombs, Taliban, civilians casualties, US Marines, taliban killing
Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 2 months ago
Credibility Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents called Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after U.S. forces killed one of the region's most wanted al Qaeda suspects. The U.S. special forces operation that killed Kenyan-born...
Tags: South Somalia, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, U.S, civilians casualties, Al Qaeda Leader, al-Qaeda, Somalia, Mogadishu
Taliban call for probe as fall-out from Afghan air raid reverberates
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility KABUL: The Taliban Monday called on the international community to shed full light on a NATO air raid that killed dozens of people in Afghanistan, as the fall-out from last week's incident reverberated worldwide. Friday's air raid in northern Kunduz province...
Tags: Afghanistan, air strike, Al Jazeera, Ms Merkel, Robert Gates, civilians casualties, World › Taliban, U.N.
US desperate to cut Afghan civilian casualty
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Afghanistan last week, said Sunday that he would sharply restrict the use of air strikes in the war-torn country during counter-insurgency operations in an effort to reduce the civilian deaths. Hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in US air strikes...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S, Taliban, air strikes, civilians casualties, civilians deaths, reduce civilians, Stanley McChrystal, Afghan National Army
Pentagon delays Afghan's air raid report
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility The probe, ordered by the head of the US Central Command General David Petraeus, examined bombing raids on May 4 in the western Farah province in which the Kabul government says 140 civilians were killed. However, despite Defense Department officials...
Tags: Afghanistan, Mike Mullen, U.S, civilians deaths, Farah Province, military officer, Pentagon Admits Some Responsibility, disciplinary action, civilians casualties
Commander Maps New Course for Afghan War
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Stanley McChrystal told the Senate last week that troops in Afghanistan will have to make cultural sensitivities central to military operations, he didn't sound like a man who spent most of his career in the special-operations world training soldiers...
Tags: Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Kabul, U.S, civilians casualties, Iraq, generals stanley, NATO
US should disclose civilian safeguards
Geneva :: Switzerland | 5 months ago
Credibility A UN human rights expert on Wednesday called on the United States to disclose safeguards it has put in place to avoid civilian casualties during deeply troubling air attacks by remote-controlled drones. Targeted killings carried out by drone attacks...
Tags: UN Human Rights Council, drone attacks, Philip Alston, civilians casualties, deeply troubling, Afghanistan, special rapporteur
McChrystal warns of greater casualties in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Stanley McChrystal tells a Senate committee that the strategy that worked in Iraq won't translate to Afghanistan, and that greater cooperation with Pakistan is needed. June 3, 2009 "I don't think that the Taliban have any reason right now to turn their...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.S, Stanley McChrystal, civilians casualties, afghans war, civilians deaths, lieutenant general, general stanley, Taliban
Insurgents attack prison in eastern Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Insurgents attacked a prison in eastern Afghanistan before dawn Friday, sparking a gunbattle with guards during which one prisoner was killed and another escaped, police said...The international force did not provide further details or the nationality...
Tags: Afghanistan, civilians deaths, civilians casualties, U.S, rights group, Farah, Human Rights Watch, air strikes, massive civilians, marines corps
India reviews coastal security to check LTTE
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 6 months ago
Credibility India on Monday took stock of the coastal security to prevent the Tamil Tigers from infiltrating into the country amid the war in Sri Lanka...Antony met Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta here to discuss coastal security. "The navy chief briefed...
Tags: Sri Lanka, United Nations Security Council, civilians casualties, India, coastal security, New York, Japan
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