Afghanistan War: NATO under Fire over Civilian Casualties, Karzai CriticismAfter months of denial, NATO admitted Sunday to five civilian casualties in a February raid - a major setback in the Afghanistan war effort to 'win hearts and minds.'Athanasiadis, Iason...
The report, titled "Afghanistan Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: 2019," documents 3,403 civilians killed and 6,989 injured, with most of the civilian casualties inflicted by anti-government elements. It is the sixth year in a row that the number of civilian casualtie...
When the war began in 2001, U.S. military planners saw the Taliban as a ragtag movement that could be bombed into oblivion for harboring the Al Qaeda leaders behind the September 11th attacks. But with each passing year, civilian casualties from U.S. and NATO airstrikes ...
Taliban gunman grabs 10 year old girl to use as human shield as he shoots at British soldiers. British hero, Lance Corporal Craig Murfitt, takes a bullet in the head because he refuses to fire with the child in the way. This is a clear war of good against evil. Bombing children at ...
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 ...
It's not that the Afghanistan war is ending differently. It's that it's ending the same way other recent wars have, with one big difference. This time the United States was attacked, the casualties were civilians, and the yearning for decisive victory was as clear as it's been since Pe...
There were over 10,000 civilian casualties reported inAfghanistanfor 2019, according to aUnited Nations report. That marks the sixth straight year the war-torn country has had over 10,000 civilian casualties related to armed conflict. With the numbers from 2019, Afghanistan has now experienced ove...
The US casualties in Kabul are the country's first deaths in action in Afghanistan in 18 months, despite a promise from Mr Biden that withdrawing was intended to save American lives.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A United Nations report says Afghanistan passed a grim milestone with more than 100,000 civilians killed or hurt in the last 10 years since the international body began documenting casualties in a war that has raged for 18 year
As the war unfolded, the number of civilian deaths increased as a result of coalition military operations. In 2009, the UN mission in Afghanistan recorded the highest number of civilian casualties since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.