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UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months

Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009

PressTV

27th September, 2009

A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.

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US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on May 6, 2009

Bill van Auken

WSWS

6th May, 2009

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Five Weddings and Many Funerals

On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air strikes in western Farah province have killed and wounded scores of civilians, many of them women and children. Read the rest of this entry »

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US blitz continues to kill Afghan civilians

Posted by seumasach on April 13, 2009

PressTV

13th April, 2009

Fresh US air strikes have again killed at least six Afghan civilians, including women and children in the eastern province of Kunar. Seventeen others were also injured in the overnight attacks which hit civilian homes in Watapour district of the province, a Press TV correspondent reported Monday.

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