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More Afghan Civilians Killed By US, Security Forces Than By Insurgents: UN
Afghan civilians are for the first time being killed in greater numbers by US and pro-government forces than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, a UN report released Wednesday revealed.
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Afghan Civilian Deaths Hit New High: United Nation
Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit a new high in the first half of 2017 with 1,662 killed and more than 3,500 injured, the United Nations said Monday.
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30 Afghan Civilians Killed In Kunduz NATO Airstrike: Officials
At least 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed in a NATO airstrike Thursday in the volatile northern province of Kunduz, officials said.
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Taliban says it's suspending talks with US
The Taliban militant group says it is suspending talks with the United States. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that the United States kept changing the terms of the negotiations. Mujahid says that the Taliban only wanted to discuss prisoner transfers and the establishment of a political office in Qatar, but US ne...
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Taliban vow revenge for US soldier's rampage
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents today vowed revenge against "sick minded American savages" for the weekend rampage by a US soldier who killed 16 villagers in their homes. The Taliban would "take revenge from the invaders and the savage murderers for every single martyr", they said in a statement on their website.
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American held after shooting of civilians in Afghanistan
A United States service member walked out of a military base in a rural district of southern Afghanistan on Sunday and opened fire on three nearby houses, killing at least 16 civilians, including several children, local villagers and provincial officials said.
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Drug use cited in the killings of 3 civilians
Members of an American Army unit consumed with drug use randomly chose Afghan civilians to kill and then failed to report the abuses out of fear they would suffer retaliation from their commander, according to testimony in military court here on Monday.
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CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan to thwart Taliban
The CIA has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used to plan attacks against American troops in Afghanistan. As part of its covert war in the regi...
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Soldier describes murder of Afghan 'for sport' in leaked tape
A leaked interrogation tape broadcast by ABC News on Monday.On Monday, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in western Washington, Specialist Jeremy N. Morlock, one of five American soldiers accused by Army investigators of taking part in the murders of three Afghan civilians this year, appeared at a hearing to determine the formal charges against hi...
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More Afghan Civilians Killed By US, Security Forces Than By Insurgents: UN
Afghan civilians are for the first time being killed in greater numbers by US and pro-government forces than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, a UN report released Wednesday revealed.
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Afghan Civilian Deaths Hit New High: United Nation
Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit a new high in the first half of 2017 with 1,662 killed and more than 3,500 injured, the United Nations said Monday.
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30 Afghan Civilians Killed In Kunduz NATO Airstrike: Officials
At least 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed in a NATO airstrike Thursday in the volatile northern province of Kunduz, officials said.
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Taliban says it's suspending talks with US
The Taliban militant group says it is suspending talks with the United States. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that the United States kept changing the terms of the negotiations. Mujahid says that the Taliban only wanted to discuss prisoner transfers and the establishment of a political office in Qatar, but US ne...
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Taliban vow revenge for US soldier's rampage
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents today vowed revenge against "sick minded American savages" for the weekend rampage by a US soldier who killed 16 villagers in their homes. The Taliban would "take revenge from the invaders and the savage murderers for every single martyr", they said in a statement on their website.
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American held after shooting of civilians in Afghanistan
A United States service member walked out of a military base in a rural district of southern Afghanistan on Sunday and opened fire on three nearby houses, killing at least 16 civilians, including several children, local villagers and provincial officials said.
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Drug use cited in the killings of 3 civilians
Members of an American Army unit consumed with drug use randomly chose Afghan civilians to kill and then failed to report the abuses out of fear they would suffer retaliation from their commander, according to testimony in military court here on Monday.
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CIA steps up drone attacks in Pakistan to thwart Taliban
The CIA has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used to plan attacks against American troops in Afghanistan. As part of its covert war in the regi...
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Soldier describes murder of Afghan 'for sport' in leaked tape
A leaked interrogation tape broadcast by ABC News on Monday.On Monday, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in western Washington, Specialist Jeremy N. Morlock, one of five American soldiers accused by Army investigators of taking part in the murders of three Afghan civilians this year, appeared at a hearing to determine the formal charges against hi...
