Afghans dispute U.S. version of raid casualties
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - The U.S. military said coalition and Afghan troops killed six Taliban and arrested four in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, though a provincial official and residents said the casualties were villagers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - The toll from Sunday's car  bomb blast in Kabul rose Monday with different accounts from  Western security forces and Afghan officials suggesting as many  as a dozen people may have been killed.
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KUNAR, Afghanistan  - A U.S. bombing raid killed  at least six civilians and wounded nine in the eastern Afghan  province of Kunar early on Tuesday after assailants attacked  government positions, an Afghan official said.
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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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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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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 60 Taliban in battles in restive southern Afghanistan, taking the guerrilla death toll to more than 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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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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As of Friday, Dec. 28, 2007, at least 405 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Dec. 22, 2007, at 10 a.m. EST.
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Western forces in Afghanistan have the Taliban on the defensive after a series of spring battles that have also been blamed for a rising civilian death toll, a senior U.S. military officer said on Wednesday.
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An Afghan human rights group said Friday an estimated 34 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike on a southern village this week &amp;#151; far higher than the official toll.
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The killing in Afghanistan spirals onward, undermining U.S. claims of success in pacifying the country with less than a week to go before an historic experiment with democracy &#151; direct presidential elections.
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Afghanistan gave a welcome on Thursday to U.S. plans to send an extra 3,000 troops to fight the Taliban insurgency, but Washington's move highlights divisions between Western allies over how much to commit to the country.
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The death of the children may well add to the crescendoing anger many Afghans feel about civilian casualties from American and NATO military operations.
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KABUL, June 23 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai chastised U.S. and NATO-led troops Saturday for their "careless operations" and accused them of killing more than 90 civilians in the past 10 days, even as fresh reports emerged of more non-combatant deaths.
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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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The Afghan government and Nato say figures for civilian casualties are often exaggerated or fabricated.
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BARIKAW, Afghanistan  -- An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen Sunday. As many as 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape, and injured Afghans said the Americans fired on civilian cars and pedestrians as they sped away....