{"id":824,"date":"2010-10-02T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=824"},"modified":"2010-10-02T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:18:24","slug":"us-led-airstrike-kills-15-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/10\/02\/824\/","title":{"rendered":"US-led airstrike kills 15 in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"afghan-killed-2\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/afghan-killed-2.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"199\" \/>KABUL: A US-led airstrike has killed at least 15 people in northeastern Afghanistan amid growing discontent over the rising number of civilian deaths in the war-torn country.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The US-led military alliance says the airstrike took place in Kunar Province, near the border with Pakistan.<br \/>Afghan officials have repeatedly asked US-led forces to end air raids that mostly inflict cause civilian casualties. US-led forces, however, maintain that they are targeting militants.<br \/>The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has led to a dramatic increase in anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan.<br \/>The US-led force has stepped up attacks in Afghanistan under Washington&#8217;s new war strategy, which aims to reduce its military presence next year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>A mine explosion has claimed the lives of four more US-led soldiers in southwestern Afghanistan, amid concerns of the rise of such incidents in the war-torn country.<br \/>In a statement issued on Friday, Georgian Defense Ministry said that four of the country&#8217;s nationals with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in the Helmand province while they were on patrol, AFP reported.<br \/>The ministry released the names of the soldiers as Col. Ramaz Gogiashvili, Sergeant Davit Tsetskhladze, Corporal Giorgi Kolkhitashvili and Corporal Nugzar Kalandadze.<br \/>However, it was not clear whether the Georgians were among the six international soldiers that on Thursday NATO declared dead.<br \/>The ministry expressed condolences to the soldiers&#8217; families and said that it would return their bodies to home as soon as possible.<br \/>The increasing number of troop casualties in Afghanistan has sparked widespread anger in the US and other NATO member states, undermining public support for the continuation of the Afghan war.<br \/>In another statement NATO confirmed six more US-led forces have been killed in Afghanistan as militants step up their attacks against foreign forces in the country.<br \/>NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced that three soldiers have been killed by a bomb explosion and another three died in separate attacks.<br \/>ISAF says the attacks happened in the country&#8217;s troubled south but has not yet disclosed the nationalities of the soldiers.<br \/>About 550 foreign soldiers have been killed in the Afghan war so far this year.<br \/>ISAF has also announced that one of its air weapons teams has accidentally struck a group of civilians in Ghazni province killing four and injuring three others.<br \/>The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has led to a dramatic increase in anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan.<br \/>A recent UN report revealed that civilian deaths have jumped by 31 percent in the first half of 2010.<br \/>The recent surge in fighting between US-led coalition forces and Taliban militants has made 2010 the deadliest year for the foreign troops since the invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: A US-led airstrike has killed at least 15 people in northeastern Afghanistan amid growing discontent over the rising number of civilian deaths in the war-torn country.<\/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-824","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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