Pro-government forces caused a quarter of all civilian casualties, totaling 2,231, the report said. That includes 841 killed and 1,390 wounded, a decrease of 24% from 2019, with the Afghan national security forces causing most of these — 22% of the total. While there was an i...
War took an increasing toll on Afghanistan's civilians in 2013 as fighting intensified between the government and insurgents, the United Nations said in a report today , with total casualties rising 14 per cent. The gradual withdrawal of foreign troops has left Afghan government forces mo...
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during the height of America’s participation in the Afghan war. The U.S. had nearly 100,000 troops operating in Afghanistan in 2010 as part of President Barack Obama’s troop surge.
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside...
5. Our profligate, high-tech approach to war, including those Predator and Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles, has served to limit American casualties — and so has limited the anger over, and harsh questioning of, our wars that might go with them. While the U.S. has had more th...
Based in part on the many statements, ICC judges in The Hague would then have to decide whether to seek a war crimes investigation. It's uncertain when that decision will be made. Civilian casualties down, but airstrike deaths up in Afghanistan ...
And that is it. That is the sum total of the evidence that both the document itself and Lord Robertson, evidently reading notes from Taylor’s briefing, calls “clear and compelling.” HARRIT: This is in my mind with no doubt simply the legal basis for 18 years of perpetual war in the...
Helmand province remained Afghanistan's leading opium grower, taking 46% of the national total, followed by Kandahar, Farah, and Nangarhar. The only good news is that the number of casualties during the 2014 eradication campaign fell significantly; 13 lives was lost, compared with 143 fatalities...
Gen McChrystal'sblunt(直爽的,变钝的)assessment will say that the Afghan people are undergoing a crisis of confidence because the war against the Taliban has not made their lives better, says BBC North America editor Mark Mardell. The general says the aim should be for Afghan forces to take...