US-led raid kills 6 Afghan civilians

Press TV, Monday, 23 August, 2010, 10:08:36 GMT Font size :

A NATO raid in Afghanistan's northern Konduz province has left six civilians dead and 11 more injured, a Press TV correspondent reports.

Provincial officials said the fatalities of the Monday raid include a woman and a child. They further added that US-led forces took four other civilians with themselves.

The Western military alliance is already under fire over the rising civilian death toll in the war-torn Afghanistan. According to the United Nations, more than 1,200 Afghan civilians were killed during the first half of 2010. RZS/HRF

NATO: Bombs kill 2 foreign troops in Afghanistan

By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer –

Monday August 23, 2010, 4:17 am ET

KABUL, Afghanistan –

Roadside bombs killed two members of the ISAF (NATO) forces in Afghanistan on Monday, including one American, NATO reported.

The attacks came in the north and south of the country, NATO said. No other information was released immediately in accordance with procedure.

The deaths bring the number of foreign forces killed in Afghanistan this month to 44, including 29 Americans, according to a count by The Associated Press. Sixty-six American troops were killed in July, making it the deadliest month for the U.S. in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion that overthrew the hard-line Islamist Taliban government.

Monday's casualties follow the deaths Sunday of four U.S. troops amid fierce fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan.

Combat has intensified around the country amid an increase in the number of foreign forces battling the Taliban (resistance movement) to about 120,000, including more than 78,000 Americans. Foreign troops are increasingly skirmishing in the vast south and mountainous east, where insurgents (Taliban fighters) have long held sway. They also are attacking coalition forces in parts of the north and west where they were not previously active.