Sunday 17 July 2011

Afghan civilian deaths up 15% (AFP)

Afghan children watch a US soldier while patrolling in the mountains of Nuristan Province. The number of civilians killed in the Afghan war during the first six months of 2011 rose 15 percent on a year earlier, the UN mission in the country announced Thursday.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)AFP - The number of civilians killed in the Afghan war in the first half of 2011 rose 15 percent, the United Nations said Thursday, putting the year on track to be the deadliest in a decade.



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