NATO says it is investigating allegations of civilian casualties during a coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan.
The alliance said Monday that 15 insurgents were killed overnight in a joint Afghan-NATO operation against a senior Taliban leader in the Baghran district of Helmand province.
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NATO airstrike kills 15 in Afghanistan
October 25th, 2010 |
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NATO troops kill four Afghan civilians
April 6th, 2010 |
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NATO said on Tuesday that its forces killed four civilians, including two women and a child, in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan. Four suspected insurgents were also killed in the airstrike on Monday in Nahr-e-Saraj district of the southern province of Helmand, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
Mistaken airstrike kills 33 in Afghanistan
February 23rd, 2010 |
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A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) airstrike in southern Afghanistan has killed 33 people after an aircraft fired on civilians mistakenly thought to be insurgents, the Afghan government said yesterday. The Afghan cabinet condemned the killings near the border of Uruzgan and Dai Kondi
Afghanistan: NATO airstrike kills 33 civilians
February 22nd, 2010 |
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The Afghan government says a NATO airstrike has killed at least 33 civilians in southern Afghanistan. The Council of Ministers released a statement Monday condemning the incident as “unjustifiable.”
At least 21 civilians killed in Nato airstrike in southern Afghanistan
February 22nd, 2010 |
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The Afghan Interior Ministry says at least 21 civilians were killed by a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan. Nato forces confirmed in a statement that its planes fired on a group of vehicles Sunday that it believed contained insurgents who were about to attack its forces, only to
German compensation for Afghan airstrike victims
January 15th, 2010 |
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A compensation program for families of those killed in the German airstrike in Kunduz will consist of short-term help for the winter and long-term investment. Families of civilian victims of the German airstrike in Afghanistan in September will receive compensation through long-term support projects rather than monetary payments, a German lawyer for the victims’ families said at a press conference Thursday.
German minister defends Afghan airstrike reaction
November 27th, 2009 |
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Germany’s former defense and current labor minister defended his actions in the aftermath of Germany’s deadly airstrike in Afghanistan in early September. Calls for Franz Josef Jung’s resignation are reaching fever pitch.