16 Civilians Die as U.S. Troops Open Fire in Afghanistan
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American officials said the civilians were caught in crossfire with militants, but witnesses and some Afghan officials said the troops shot indiscriminately.
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A helicopter crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing all 16 people on board, including at least two American civilians, officials said Thursday.
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KABUL, July 7 -- Afghan elders said Saturday that 108 civilians were killed this week in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, and villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday condemned the deaths of 10 civilians shot by U.S. troops after an attack on their convoy over the weekend.
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At least 10 civilians are killed in a Taleban attack aimed at a US military base in Afghanistan, officials say.
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A convoy of U.S. troops accidentally rammed into a rush-hour traffic jam in the Afghan capital on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 16, police said.
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A man and two women were shot dead by  Afghan and U.S.-led troops after their vehicle ran through a  checkpoint on Saturday, a U.S. military statement said.
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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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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- US-led airstrikes targeting Taliban militants who had attacked NATO forces slammed into civilian homes in southern Afghanistan, killing civilians and insurgents, Afghan and Western officials said yesterday.
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NATO and Afghan troops called in airstrikes during a battle against insurgents that left 20 suspected militants but also several civilians dead, officials said Tuesday.
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A suicide bomber killed 17 Afghan civilians, including 12 school children, on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said, in an attack aimed at Dutch NATO troops patrolling a crowded bazaar in the south of the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. military said its forces killed more than 20 Islamic fighters on Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan but denied reports it had killed up to eight villagers in the same operation.
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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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Air strikes by foreign forces in Afghanistan have recently killed more civilians than the Taliban and the U.S.-led operation should cut them back, an Afghan rights group said on Monday.
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Air strikes by foreign forces leave 25 civilians dead in southern Afghanistan, local residents and police say.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan civilians were killed on Sunday when Western troops opened fire after a suicide car-bomber attacked their convoy in the east of the country, police said.