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The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that 2,118 civilians were killed as a result of armed conflict in Afghanistan in 2008, the highest civilian death toll since the end of the initial 2001 invasion. This represents an increase of about 40 percent over UNAMA's figure of 1,523 civilians killed in 2007. [22] [24] [25] [29]
October 26, 2006 – Between 40 and 60 villagers were killed in two separate night air raids, followed by mortar and rocket attacks against villages in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province. [25] November 16, 2006 – British troops open fire at a vehicle and killed two of its occupant, wounding a young girl, near Girish, in Helmand Province.
Amnesty International said that 756 civilians were killed in 2006 from Taliban road bombs or suicide bombers. [10] In 2010, the Taliban systematically killed civilians in Afghanistan, usually based on claims of the victims supporting the Afghan government.
Over a thousand Afghan civilians were killed in bombings and other violence since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021, according to a report by the U.N.'s mission to Afghanistan ...
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 ...
February 12: Five innocent civilians including two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in the botched Khataba raid. February 21: Uruzgan helicopter attack kills 27-33 civilians including four women and a child in Uruzgan province. Spring: Operation Moshtarak Phase I is led by US Marines to retake Marjah, in Helmand Province, from the Taliban.
The ceremony took place two days after the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 345-page report on the fiasco that ended America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan.
[1] [6] [12] [13] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [3] [14] [4] the first American military casualties in the War in Afghanistan since February 2020. [15] The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K) claimed responsibility for the attack. [16]