Afghan civilian deaths 'inflated'
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The Afghan government and Nato say figures for civilian casualties are often exaggerated or fabricated.
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U.N. officials in Afghanistan said on Monday that up to 380 civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict in the first four months of 2007 and called on Western military forces and the Taliban to respect laws protecting civilians.
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Iraqi officials expressed outrage today at what they say are civilian deaths in the wake of a massive military operation in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. The U.S. military said its ground forces are "unaware" of civilian deaths in the early morning raid that it said left 49 "criminals" dead. Iraqi officials have put the death toll between 10 and 13, with dozens of others wounded.
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More than 30 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an airstrike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a regional official said.
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NATO's estimate of Taliban killed this month has created skepticism and worry in Afghanistan, with local officials saying that either the militant force has grown bigger than imagined &#151; or too many innocent Afghans are being killed.
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More than 30 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a regional official said.
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About 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of the March 2003 US-led invasion, according to a new study by a research team at the Bloomberg
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An estimated 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of last year&#39;s US-led invasion, according to a new study by a research team at the Bloom-berg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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The government has denied that the casualty toll among its forces in violence-wracked Afghanistan is being under-reported, as claimed by a senior officer on the ground.
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A Human Rights Watch report says that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2006.
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MORE than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March last year, according to a new scientific study.
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Iraqi civilian deaths in political violence reached a new high in January, data from an interior ministry official showed on Thursday.
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"Civilian deaths of all categories, less natural causes, have . . . declined considerably, by over 45 percent Iraq-wide since the height of the sectarian violence in December. . . . The level of civilian deaths is clearly still too high and continues to be of serious concern. . . . The overall...
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PARIS More than 100,000 civilians have probably died as direct or indirect consequences of the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University&#39;s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
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Afghan police say more civilians have been killed in air strikes, but Nato says it is not aware of civilian casualties.
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More than 30 civilians were reported killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a regional official said.
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Â·  Rise in civilian casualties cuts support for coalition Â·  Air strike blamed on lack of intelligence-sharing