NATO rocket killed 52 Afghan civilians: Hamid Karzai The Siasat Daily | Kabul, July 27: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that NATO troops had fired a rocket that killed 52 "innocent" villagers in southern Afghanistan, as leaked documents laid bare the civilian toll of the US-led war. | An investigation by the National Directorate of Security found that a h...
Rocket fire prevents Ban, Swedish FM from landing at Kabul Zeenews Kabul: Intense rocket barrage prevented a plane carrying UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt from landing at the Kabul airport and the aircraft was forced to be diverted to Bagram air base. | The two dignitaries were arriving in the Afghan capital to attend a...
Rocket attacks kill 16 in Karbala m&c | Karbala, Iraq - Rocket attacks launched by militants have killed 16 people in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, police said Wednesday - with a further 22 people injured in the strikes. | The rocket attacks late Tuesday went off near the offices of t...
Row over Afghan rocket attack Al Jazeera | A rift between the Afghan government and Nato officials over a rocket attack in Helmand province appears to be deepening. | Afghanistan's president says 52 civilians were killed in an attack by international forces. | But the Nato-led force says a ...
Rocket 'killed 52 civilians in village' The Australian | THE Afghan government says 52 civilians, including women and children, died when a NATO rocket struck a village in southern Afghanistan - a report disputed by the international coalition yesterday. | The allegation was raised as the founder of Wiki...
Rocket attack in Afghanistan kills 45-50 civilians—official Inquirer | KABUL, Afghanistan—A rocket attack on an Afghan village killed at least 45 civilians, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai told AFP on Monday, as leaked documents laid bare the civilian toll of the United States-led war. | Women and children were...
NATO rocket killed civilians, Afghans allege The Boston Globe | KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials said yesterday that 52 people were killed in southern Afghanistan on Friday when a rocket fired by coalition forces hit a house where women and children had taken shelter from fighting between NATO troops and m...
Karzai Claims Nato Rocket Killed 52 Afghans Orange News | Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused Nato troops of firing a rocket which killed 52 villagers in Helmand province. | The president said he had spoken to the mourning families after an official investigation found international forces were resp...
Body of Second Missing Sailor Recovered in Afghanistan The New York Times | KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States military has recovered the body of the second of two American sailors abducted last week in a dangerous region south of Kabul, but it was not clear precisely how he had died. | Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era. Go to the Blog » | The body believed...
Pentagon asks FBI to probe leak Al Jazeera | The US defence department has asked the FBI to help investigate the leak of more than 90,000 classified military documents, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said. | Speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday, Gates called the leaks "potentially severe and dangerous". | "We don't know whether this investigation sh...
