JALALABAD, Afghanistan — At least 13 civilians, including several children, were killed in American airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan that were carried out in support of an Afghan-led operation against the Taliban, local officials and tribal elders said on Sunday.
Members of a C.I.A.-sponsored Afghan strike force called in air support after coming under fire on Saturday as they mounted an assault on Taliban fighters in the district of Hesarak in Nangarhar Province, the officials said.
The airstrikes hit two houses in the village of Naser Khil, said a tribal elder, Ruzi Khan Maruf. In one house, the village’s lone doctor, his wife and their five teenage daughters were killed, Mr. Maruf said by telephone. In the other, the doctor’s brother, his wife and their four children — three teenage girls and a boy — reportedly died. The brother was an Afghan soldier, Mr. Maruf said.
Shah Mahmood Miakhel, the governor of Nangarhar Province, said an important Taliban commander had also been killed in the airstrikes. The exact number of civilians killed was unclear, he said.
xfjqvyks on March 16th, 2019 at 14:33 UTC »
And so now we have family members and survivors who will grow up hating us and wanting payback for what our governments did to them and theirs. Terrorism in 2035 is going to be quite something
Orbx on March 16th, 2019 at 14:24 UTC »
All to kill the village's lone terrorist,
after which the entire village was converted to terrorism
thelimetownjack on March 16th, 2019 at 14:11 UTC »
The BBC reported that between 2014 and 2017 more than 40,000 Afghan civilians were killed or injured, AND that the Taliban now control more territory than they did seventeen years ago. This war was always idiotic, and goddamn Bush, Obama, Trump and the American media for letting it happen now for almost twenty years.