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Afghan civilian casualties sharply rising: Pentagon

Thursday, 05 July 2018 3:04 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 05 July 2018 3:07 PM ]

An Afghan boy receives treatment at a hospital in Kunduz on April 3, 2018, a day after an airstrike hit a school in a Taliban stronghold. (AFP)

Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul

A US report says civilian casualties are sharply rising in Afghanistan amid bloody violence, and failure to restore peace and stability 17 years after the US invasion. The Pentagon report said US-led forces in Afghanistan counted over four-thousand casualties–about one-quarter of which were deaths.

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