NATO to review Afghan mission after civilian deaths
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NATO defense ministers will review procedures in Afghanistan on Thursday as part of efforts to halt a wave of civilian casualties threatening to undermine public support for foreign peacekeepers there.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed dozens of   Taliban fighters in a major air and ground offensive in   southern Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, a day after 14   British military personnel were killed when their plane   crashed.
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The NATO force in Afghanistan said Friday it had killed insurgents in bombing raids in the mountainous northeast but rejected local claims that around 30 civilians were dead.
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Civilians are hit by a suicide attack targeting a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan, police say.
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The U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan government are investigating reports that as many as 130 people, including women and children, were killed Friday in an attack by coalition forces in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.
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The U.S. military on Saturday said it was investigating the death of a soldier in eastern Afghanistan as a possible &quot;friendly fire incident.&quot;
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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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The U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Sunday 16 Afghan civilians were killed after a "complex" Taliban ambush on a U.S. convoy involving a suicide car-bomb attack and militant gunfire.
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NICE, France -- NATO and the United States said yesterday that they would merge their separate missions in Afghanistan, giving NATO command of an operation that for the first time will combine counterterrorism and peacekeeping activities.
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A roadside bomb thought to be targeting Afghan and NATO troops killed five civilians including a child, a district chief said.
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A NATO soldier was killed Sunday in a Taliban attack that included a suicide blast in southern Afghanistan where dozens of civilians were said killed in foreign air strikes days ago, officials said.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer pledged on Tuesday to investigate civilian deaths in Afghanistan, but contrasted NATO's record there with a Taliban who "behead people, burn schools, kill women and children".
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NATO defense ministers will on   Thursday examine a military proposal that will allow the   alliance to rapidly complete its plans to take over command of   all peacekeepers in Afghanistan, NATO officials said.
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A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the capital Saturday and killed four civilians, Afghan officials said, a day after 10 were killed when another suicide car bomber targeted a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan.
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NATO forces in Afghanistan said that they were investigating whether enemy fire brought down a Chinook helicopter on Wednesday, killing sevent troops.
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NATO soldiers fearing a suicide attack has shot and killed an Afghan civilian when he ran between vehicles in a convoy in southern Afghanistan.
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U.S.-led coalition and NATO forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have killed at least 236 civilians so far this year &#151; surpassing the 178 civilians killed in militant attacks, according to an Associated Press tally.