Posted in Afghanistan, Body Count, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Government, NATO/Allies, Taliban, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Kabul, US Special Operations on July 23, 2010|
By Sgt. Brian Kester
7/21/10 | ISAF Public Affairs Office
KABUL, Afghanistan (July 22) – In western Afghanistan the incidence of civilian casualties due to combat operations is at an all time low. In every instance where a civilian casualty was caused by combat operations, it can be attributed to the violence of insurgents, according to statistics gathered by the U.S. Marine Special Operations Forces assigned to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Displacement, Foreign Aid, NATO/Allies, Property Damage, tagged Afghanistan, humanitarian aid, Kabul, Nato, Taliban on July 13, 2010|
Source: IRIN
KABUL, 13 July 2010 – The need for humanitarian aid will increase in Afghanistan over the next 12 months when more than 130,000 US/NATO troops, backed by tens of thousands of Afghan forces, seek to make military gains against a resurgent Taliban, aid agencies warn.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Body Count, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Insurgents, NATO/Allies, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Insurgents, Kabul, NATO troops on July 12, 2010|
Sat, Jul 10 2010
By Rob Taylor
KABUL (Reuters) – Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Mazar-i-Sharif Saturday to protest against mounting civilian deaths, while five U.S. and NATO troops died in separate insurgent attacks on a bloody day of fighting across the country. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Air Strike, Body Count, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, NATO/Allies, tagged Afghanistan, airstrikes, Central Asia, Kabul, Nato on June 21, 2010|
By Rod Nordland
Source: New York Times
June 19, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ten civilians, including at least five women and children, were killed in NATO airstrikes in Khost Province, the provincial police chief said Saturday. Five other civilians were killed, as were two Afghan National Army soldiers and two police officials, in other violence around the country on Saturday. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Body Count, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, ISAF, Military, Suicide Bomb, tagged Afghanistan, civilians, Kabul, Military, suicide bombing on June 16, 2010|
KABUL, 16 June 2010 (IRIN) – Only seconds after a convoy of armoured military vehicles passed Fawad Tokhi, 35, at about 8.20am in the south of Kabul city on 18 May, he was wounded in a suicide attack.
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Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Compensation, Country, Insurgents, NATO/Allies, Other, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Compensation, Kabul, Taliban, war victims on November 23, 2009|
AFP
By LYNNE O’DONNELL
November 22, 2009
KABUL — The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap over the graves of Afghans killed in suicide attacks.
Perhaps a third of the tombs, each surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, are marked as the final resting places of “martyrs,” as the victims of Taliban attacks are known.
Afghanistan is one of the world’s poorest countries, but three decades of war and an increasingly brutal Islamist insurgency have left it rich in martyrs and the misery their deaths leave behind.
In little more than three months, in Kabul alone, devastating suicide attacks have killed around 100 people. About 300 people have been injured. (more…)
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Blogroll, Country, Insurgents, NATO/Allies, tagged Afghanistan, Air Strike, bombs, Civilian Casualties, civilian death toll, civilian deaths, Kabul, McChrystal, Nato, suicide bomber, suicide bombing, Taliban on August 11, 2009|
The Globe and Mail
By HAMID SHALIZI
Taliban bombers, some disguised as women with suicide vests hidden under their burkas, stormed government buildings near Kabul in a brazen attack just 10 days before a presidential election.
Gun battles lasted for hours Monday and smoke poured from blasted buildings in Pul-e-Alam, capital of Logar province, about an hour’s drive from Kabul. Three policemen and two civilians were killed, along with six militants, said Deen Mohammad Darwish, spokesman for the provincial governor.
It was the latest in a series of assaults in the run-up to the Aug. 20 election. The Taliban have vowed to disrupt the poll, and the United Nations says spiralling violence threatens to keep many Afghans from voting. (more…)
