Saturday, January 18, 2014

US airstrike kills woman, seven children in Afghanistan...

The government of Afghanistan has denounced a US airstrike on an Afghan village that took the lives of seven children and one woman on Wednesday morning.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai linked the incident to the continuing tensions with Washington over his postponement of signing a bilateral security agreement (BSA) that would allow some 12,000 US troops to remain in the country indefinitely after the formal deadline for withdrawing all foreign occupation forces at the end of this year.

According to both the Karzai government and the governor of Parwan province, where the massacre took place, the incident began when US special operations troops attempted to enter a home in the Ghorband district, about 25 miles north of the capital of Kabul.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force released a statement on the raid saying that the bombing was ordered after US and Afghan government forces came under attack and “required defensive air support to suppress the enemy fire.” Full story...

Related posts:
  1. Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake...
  2. US drone strike kills 8 in Pakistani school, three teachers and five children...
  3. 'Why you kill my family?' Civilian Yemeni drone victims call US to account...
  4. Numberless Victims: US reluctant to admit how many civilians died in drone strikes...
  5. Afghan authorities slam NATO after drone strike kills 16 civilians...
  6. Women, children among 18 Afghans dead in NATO wedding strike...

No comments:

Post a Comment