NATO rules avoid Afghan civilian deaths: general
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U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan believe their procedures for avoiding unintended casualties are sufficient despite a series of civilian deaths in recent weeks, a U.S. commander said on Tuesday.
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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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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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"We must take into account that there will be more violent assaults once winter is over with the additional goal of killing civilians via suicide attacks"  By Markus WacketBERLIN  - Germany rejected on Friday a call from the United States to send combat soldiers to dangerous parts of southern Afghanistan and said there were no plans to change its deployment in the less violent north.Following a strongly worded letter from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said he did not envisage a change to the mandate allowing Germany to send 3,500 troops to northern Afghanistan."We have agreed on a clear division of labor," Jung told reporters on Friday. "I think that we really must keep our focus on the North." Read more
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President Hamid Karzai says Western troops' failure to co-ordinate with Afghans is causing civilian casualties.
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The U.S. military said Monday it was  ready to help the Afghan government quell factional infighting  in western Afghanistan, where 21 people died in clashes at the  weekend.
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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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The Afghan government and Nato say figures for civilian casualties are often exaggerated or fabricated.
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More than 100 people, including militants, civilians and police, have been killed in three days of fierce clashes between NATO and the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Monday.
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Nato says it needs to do better in its operations in Afghanistan, after a rebuke from President Hamid Karzai.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged   Canada on Friday not to be discouraged by the deaths of   Canadian soldiers in his war-torn country, saying that if the   troops leave the world would become more dangerous.
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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 battled Taliban holdouts in the   deserts of southern Afghanistan on Saturday amid a security   crackdown in the capital after at least 16 people were killed   by a suicide bomber.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has no plans to restrict his travel or beef up personal security after surviving a third assassination attempt in a rocket attack outside the capital, a presidential spokesman said on Monday.
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NATO's plans to send more soldiers to Afghanistan to quell a resurgent Taliban would simply give the rebels more targets, a guerrilla commander said on Thursday.
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The U.S. military apologized on  Saturday for the death of a young Afghan and the wounding of  another in Afghanistan's central province of Uruzgan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- U S and NATO commanders say they have blunted the Taliban's threatened spring offensive, killing almost 40 commanders and 2,000 insurgents. But suicide bombings and civilian deaths inflicted by international forces are all on the rise, threatening to derail the five-year mission to pacify and rebuild Afghanistan.