Airstrikes kill scores of Afghan civilians: officials
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NATO and U.S. airstrikes have killed scores of Afghan civilians this week, residents and officials said on Saturday, deaths likely to deepen discontent with foreign forces and the Western-backed Afghan government.
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A NATO-led airstrike in southern Afghanistan this week killed up to 30 Taliban fighters including two commanders, the governor of the troubled Kandahar province said.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan civilians were killed on Sunday when foreign troops opened fire after a suicide car-bomber attacked their convoy in the east of the country, a provincial police spokesman said.
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A roadside bomb probably intended for Afghan or NATO forces killed five civilians in southern Afghanistan, while militants killed six Afghans driving a convoy of trucks to a NATO base, officials said Sunday.
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, an official said Saturday.
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A bomb in Afghanistan reportedly kills 35 civilians and injures many people, three of them Nato troops.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - An air strike by foreign-led forces killed 25 civilians, including 12 members of a family, and 20 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, a police chief said on Friday.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan, July 7 â Amid a continuing flurry of reports about civilian casualties in Afghanistan, the leader of a tribal council in Farah Province on Saturday said that 108 noncombatants were killed on Friday in a NATO airstrike.
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U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and 17 civilians in one of the deadliest strikes since the American-led invasion in 2001.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan civilians were killed and 29 wounded on Sunday when Western troops opened fire after a suicide car-bomber attacked their convoy in the east of the country, officials said.
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A six-hour battle in Afghanistan left over 50 Taliban fighters dead or wounded, while a bomber targeting a police patrol killed three civilians, officials said.
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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 suicide car bomber killed 17 civilians in an attack on NATO forces in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the provincial police chief said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials said 25 civilians, including three infants and nine women, were killed in NATO airstrikes yesterday in southern Afghanistan. NATO said today that about 20 insurgents were killed in the battle and 60 more died along the border with Pakistan.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 4 -- At least eight Afghan civilians died Sunday after a convoy of U.S. Marines in eastern Afghanistan was hit by a car bomb, and responded by firing in a way that some Afghan witnesses later alleged was reckless.
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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.