{"id":1561,"date":"2011-05-16T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:09:30","slug":"us-troops-kill-several-afghan-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/05\/16\/1561\/","title":{"rendered":"US troops kill several Afghan civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"afghan-people-killed\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/afghan-people-killed.jpg\" height=\"179\" width=\"249\" \/>American troops have killed several women and children in the troubled eastern Afghanistan amid growing civilian casualties in the war-torn country.<br \/>Villagers in Kunar Province say the US troops fired rockets at local residents from their military outposts.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The children were all girls aged 8 to 15.<br \/>Also, a 12-year-old child was reportedly killed and four others were injured in a NATO attack in Kunar on Sunday.<br \/>In a separate incident on Thursday, a 12-year-old girl was killed in Nangarhar Province after foreign troops hurled a hand grenade towards her.<br \/>Afghan authorities say they are investigating the attacks.<br \/>A NATO spokesman has said the alliance was aware of civilian casualties in Kunar but could not provide further details.<br \/>On Saturday, hundreds of people took to the streets in the eastern province of Nangarhar following the killing of a teenage boy by NATO troops Friday night.<br \/>Nearly three thousands civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict last year.<br \/>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 outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.<br \/>Civilian casualties have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and US-led foreign forces. The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has dramatically increased anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan.<br \/>The war in Afghanistan, with civilian and military casualties at record highs, has become the longest war in US history.<br \/>The surge in violence comes despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops engaged in the so-called war on terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American troops have killed several women and children in the troubled eastern Afghanistan amid growing civilian casualties in the war-torn country.Villagers in Kunar Province say the US troops fired rockets at local residents from their military outposts.<\/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-1561","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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