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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Just a week after Afghan President Hamid Karzai chastised international forces for being "careless," Afghan officials reported Saturday that possibly 100 or more civilians had been killed in a NATO and U.S.-led assault.
The battle in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, which was prompted by a Taliban ambush, began Friday night and continued into Saturday morning, Afghan officials said. It ended with international forces bombing several compounds in the remote village of Hyderabad.See the full content of this document
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100 More Civilians Killed, Afghans Say
"More than 100 people have been killed. But they weren't Taliban. The Taliban were far away from there," said vWali Khan, a member of par...
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