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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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Sixteen Afghan civilians were killed after a "complex" Taliban ambush on a U.S. convoy involving a suicide car-bomb attack and militant gunfire, the U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Sunday.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Several Afghan civilians were killed on Sunday when foreign troops opened fire after a suicide bomber rammed his car into their convoy, an official and witnesses said.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 50 suspected Taliban militants in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Residents claimed dozens of civilians were killed.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned U.S. troops for shooting dead 10 civilians at the weekend as officials said nine more -- five women, four children and an old man -- had been killed in an air strike.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday accused NATO and U.S.-led forces of carelessly killing civilians in recent operations, and suggested the international community considered Afghan lives to be "cheap."
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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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A roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan killed two Afghan civilians and wounded five others Sunday, while a clash in the south left four Taliban dead, officials said.
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Afghan and foreign officials were at odds on Sunday over the civilian death toll from a U.S.-led airstrike that a local investigating team said killed more than 100 people.
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A NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan killed 25 civilians, including nine women and three young children, a provincial police chief said.
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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 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 foreign military air strike in southern Afghanistan killed 30 civilians, including women and children, a district mayor said Saturday, citing initial investigations.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan elders yesterday said that 108 civilians were killed in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, while villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes, including some who were killed while burying dead relatives.
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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.