The air strikes by US military "mistakenly" hit the hospital of an aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Afghanistan northern Kunduz province on Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 22 civilians, including three children.
At least ten civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike on a pickup truck carrying women and children in eastern Afghanistan on Sept. 7 2013.
The airstrike by the US military on Dec. 10, 2012 hit a police station in norther Afghanistan, killing six policemen and one civilian, with another 11 wounded.
Up to 13 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a NATO airstrike on July 7, 2011 in the eastern Afghan province of Khost.
A NATO airstrike in southern Afghan province of Helmand killed 14 civilians including women and children on May 29, 2011.
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President Barack Obama has apologized to Doctors Without Borders for the U.S. air attack that hit the group's medical clinic in Afghanistan...
ReplyDeleteObama spoke to the group's international president, Joanne Liu, on Wednesday.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama offered his condolences to the aid group's staff. He says Obama assured her that there would be a thorough and objective accounting of the facts.
Earnest says Obama told the group that the U.S, if necessary, would make changes so such incidents are less likely to happen.
The White House says Obama also spoke with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and pledged to keep working closely with his government.
The weekend attack in the northern city of Kunduz killed at least 22 people.
AP
7/10/15