Kandahar (Afghanistan): Terrorist killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
The violence - hours after the US military's top officer arrived for consultations with Afghan and US-led coalition officials - illustrates the instability plaguing the nation as foreign forces work to pull nearly all their combat troops out of the country by the end of 2014.
The attacks came just days after insurgents stormed a courthouse, killing more than 46 people in one of the deadliest attacks of the war, now in its 12th year. The three US service members, two US civilians and the doctor were killed when the group was struck by an explosion while traveling to donate books to students in a school in the south, officials and the State Department said.
In a statement, Secretary of State John Kerry said the Americans included a department of defense civilian and the foreign service officer. "She tragically gave her young life working to give young Afghans the opportunity to have a better future," Kerry said. "We also honor the US troops and Department of Defense civilian who lost their lives, and the Afghan civilians who were killed today as they worked to improve the nation they love."...
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05:40 PM, Jan 01, 2013
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03:51 PM, Dec 19, 2012
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02:32 AM, May 31, 2012
Washington: The US soldier, who killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan could face a death penalty if convicted, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said, while asserting that the tragic incident was but an "isolated" one. The suspect, who has been arrested, went on a killing spree over the weekend, shooting down civilians, most of them women and children, in an act that has taken anti-America sentiment to a new high in...
10:55 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Kandahar: The massacre of 16 villagers by a US soldier triggered angry calls from Afghans for an immediate American exit even as the Obama administration vowed on Monday that the killings would not alter US plans for the war. Just days before Sunday's attack, Kabul and Washington had made significant progress in negotiations on a strategic partnership agreement that would allow American advisers and special forces to stay in Afghanistan...
05:17 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama on Sunday called his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai to express shock over the killing of 16 civilians, mostly women and children in Kandahar by a US soldier and assured him to hold fully accountable anyone responsible, the White House has said. "President Obama extended his condolences to the people of Afghanistan, and made clear his Administration's commitment to establish the facts as quickly as possible and...
10:10 AM, Mar 12, 2012
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12:15 PM, Feb 24, 2012
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02:19 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Kabul: NATO officials apologised on Monday for an airstrike that inadvertently killed a group of women and children, saying that they thought there were only insurgents inside the targeted compound when they ordered the strike. Accidental deaths of civilians from coalition military operations are an ongoing source of tension between Afghans and NATO. The international coalition has sharply reduced the number of civilians killed in its operations but Afghan officials...
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09:25 AM, Mar 25, 2011
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Young lives lost are always tragic. The grief of it is something which every home in Kashmir carefully guards against. Somehow, it quietly creeps in. ...
10:16 AM, Feb 07, 2011
New Delhi: Shocking reports of human rights violations by US troops in Afghanistan. The US military has found that a group of soldiers within its ranks formed a death squad that randomly targeted civilians for sport. Five soldiers have been charged with murder for a five-month killing spree that left three people dead in Kandahar. Seven others are charged with attempting to impede the military investigation. All of them have...
05:05 PM, Sep 20, 2010
Srinagar: With an 11-year-old boy being killed in police firing and another critically injured, tension has spiralled again in the Kashmir Valley prompting authorities to impose curfew in this summer capital and other towns on Tuesday. Irshad Ahmad Parray, 11, was killed when a huge mob of stone pelters attacked the Sherbagh police post in Anantnag town on Monday evening after which security forces fired rubber bullets at the protesters....
04:37 PM, Aug 31, 2010
Violence erupted in Kashmir again as two people died in police firing, taking the toll to six in last 24 hours. ...
08:56 PM, Jul 31, 2010
A rocket attack by foreign forces killed 52 civilians in southern Afghanistan, a statement from the President's office said. ...
10:48 PM, Jul 26, 2010
