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The U.S. soldier who is suspected of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan has now been named. He is Staff. Sgt. Robert Bales of the 3rd Stryker Brigade.
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Kandahar -
Lawmakers in Afghanistan are furious that the US has chosen to fly its soldier, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, to Kuwait.
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Yesterday Digital Journal reported on the arrest of 19-year-old Azhar Ahmed, in connection with a comment that he made on Facebook. Now the hate comments and pages start in revenge.
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Kabul -
A new midyear report on civilian deaths in Afghanistan reveals the first six months of 2011 showed 1,462 killed, a 15 percent increase over the same period a year ago, and the deadliest period since the war began in 2001.
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Tripoli -
NATO said a Libyan "military missile site" was an intended target of air strikes in Tripoli on Sunday when one of the weapons missed a target and there "may have been weapons system failure which may have caused a number of civilian casualties."
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Kabul -
A new report from the United Nations highlights that the number of Afghan civilians who have been killed or injured is up 31 percent in the first half of 2010. More than 1,200 Afghans have been killed and nearly 2,000 have been injured.
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A civil lawsuit accuses Blackwater USA and its founder, Erik Prince, of being responsible for the deaths of more than 20 innocent Iraqis. During a hearing Aug. 29, an attorney for the plaintiffs argued Prince had essentially committed war crimes.
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A helicopter crash Sunday claimed the lives of 16 in Afghanistan. A military official told BBC that the helicopter was a Mi-8 civilian aircraft.
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Sri Lankan government forces have repelled waterborne forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the waters off the village of Vellemullivaikkal, destroying some Tiger boats and capturing others.
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Confidential UN satellite images leaked yesterday appear to show that the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed a government-designated safe zone for civilians in North-Eastern Sri Lanka.The No Fire Zone was housing nearly 150,000 civilians.
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The Syrian authorities have committed crimes against civilians, says the UN secretary general, but militarisation of the opposition is no solution.
The number of civilians killed and injured in the Afghan conflict has risen for the fifth year in a row, a UN report reveals.
Sudan is arming civilians in South Kordofan as fighting against rebels in the state that borders South Sudan intensifies, the BBC finds.
Less than a year since a civilian government came to power in Burma, the BBC's Fergal Keane reports on changes within the country.
Members of Egypt's ruling military council say they are committed to civilian rule, a day after violence explodes during a protest in Cairo.
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