{"id":1067,"date":"2010-12-11T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2010-12-11T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T11:48:08","slug":"us-led-airstrike-kills-7-afghan-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/12\/11\/1067\/","title":{"rendered":"US-led airstrike kills 7 Afghan civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"afghan-people-killd\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/afghan-people-killd.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"204\" \/>At least seven Afghan civilians have been killed during the latest spate of US-led air strike in Afghanistan amid the rise in civilian casualties in the war-torn country.<br \/>The attack took place in Zarmat district in Paktia province on Saturdayn as a group of Afghan road construction workers were working on a project, a Press TV correspondent reported.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports say local people have gathered at the site of the attack and there is extreme anger over the event.<br \/>The latest strike comes as reports indicate the number of US-led airstrikes in Afghanistan has hit a record high.<br \/>The U-S Air Force has released figures showing that in October alone, a total of 1,000 air raids were carried out across war-ravaged Afghanistan.<br \/>US-led forces have repeatedly claimed that the targets of the strikes are militants and their hideouts, but most often they result in civilian casualties.<br \/>In another development, a bomb attack close to an Afghan army base in Char Darah district in Kunduz province has also wounded at least 8 people, security officials said on the same day.<br \/>The injured include 5 Afghan soldiers and three local women. Some of the victims are reportedly in critical condition.<br \/>The bomber used a police vehicle recently stolen by militants.<br \/>The upsurge in the number of casualties among US-led foreign forces in tandem with the heavy civilian casualties has provoked a barrage criticism from countries, which have contributed troops to the prolonged Afghan mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another US-led foreign soldier has been killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, the Netherlands-based BNO News has reported.<br \/>The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the serviceman was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in southern Afghanistan on Friday.<br \/>In line with its usual policy, ISAF has withheld all other details about the bomb attack.<br \/>Meanwhile Taliban claimed that In Chaghtu district of Wardag, Taliban battled the US invaders on Friday, opening fire on them getting off their tanks, killing 5 US soldiers.<br \/>The latest incident brings the death toll for foreign soldiers based in Afghanistan to 684 this year, eclipsing the previous record of 521 in 2009.<br \/>2010 has been the deadliest year of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, with casualties among civilians and foreign troops at record levels, mainly due to an increase in Taliban attacks.<br \/>As casualties have risen in Afghanistan over the past few months, public opinion has begun turning against the war in the United States and other countries.<br \/>Also, hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans becoming more and more outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.<br \/>And this situation is adding fuel to the fire of anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan and the rest of the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV &amp; agencies<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven Afghan civilians have been killed during the latest spate of US-led air strike in Afghanistan amid the rise in civilian casualties in the war-torn country.The attack took place in Zarmat district in Paktia province on Saturdayn as a group of Afghan road construction workers were working on a project, a Press TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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