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The Helmand province campaign was a series of military operations conducted by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) forces against Taliban insurgents and other local groups in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Their objective was to control a province that was known to be a Taliban stronghold, and a center of opium production. [7]
August 6, 2011 – Afghan police said 8 civilians were killed in Helmand Province by ISAF troops. "The victims of Friday's air strike in Helmand were members of a family that had fled fighting in neighbouring Uruzgan province, police said." A woman and six children are among the dead. [48] [49] A later account said nine civilians died. Seven of ...
Map of Afghanistan with Helmand highlighted. The 2011 Helmand Province killing was the manslaughter of a wounded Taliban insurgent by Alexander Blackman, which occurred on 15 September 2011. [1] [2] Three Royal Marines, known during their trial as Marines A, B, and C, were anonymously tried by court martial.
Victims’ of the Narang night raid that killed at least 10 Afghan civilians, including eight schoolchildren. September 30, 2009 – The Dutch Defense Ministry said that two Dutch F-16 fighter planes provided air support during what was referred to as "heavy fighting" between British ground troops and the Taliban in Helmand Province. British ...
January 24, 2007 – NATO troops fired at a vehicle which failed to stop in the Gereshk district of Helmand province. The bullets killed a passerby. [2] February 17, 2007 – An unarmed man acting in a suspicious manner was shot and killed by Canadian troops near the village of Senjaray, 12 km west of Kandahar. [3]
But during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it proved especially hard to maintain a sense of moral balance. These wars lacked the moral clarity of World War II, with its goal of unconditional surrender. Some troops chafed at being sent not to achieve military victory, but for nation-building (“As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down”). The ...
January 16, 2012: A Bell 214 helicopter under contract for NATO forces crashed and burst in flames in Nadali district near Shora area of southern Helmand province. All three people on board were killed. [234] July 6, 2011: An IL-76TD cargo plane, registered 4K-AZ55, was destroyed in an accident near Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The plane flew ...
According to a new report by the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, since the takeover in mid-August 2021 and until the end of May, there were 3,774 civilian casualties, including 1,095 people ...