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| 8th Oct 2001 | UMO NEWS | About 30 civilians had honour of getting
Shahaadah (martyrdom) in Kabul ... The wreckage of one plane along with its killed crew members have been identified including pilot etc ... |
| 8th Oct 2001 | REUTERS | "My neighbour died of a heart attack during the bombings," said the man on his way to work, adding that the missiles appeared to have landed close to residential areas ... |
| 9th Oct 2001 | JORDAN NEWS | Office of a UN-backed demining agency in Kabul is bombed, killing four security guards. US expressed regret following UN protest ... |
| 12th Oct 2001 | JORDAN NEWS | Residents of a village near Kabul airport said a 12-year-old girl died when a bomb landed near her house, causing it to collapse ... |
| 12th Oct 2001 | YAHOO NEWS | The Taliban claimed Friday at least 200
people had been killed two days earlier in an airstrike on a village outside
the eastern city of Jalalabad ... In addition, the Taliban's official news agency said at least 10 people were killed and several homes were destroyed in Argandab, north of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar ... |
| 13th Oct 2001 | JORDAN NEWS | a US bomb missed a target at Kabul airport and struck a nearby village, killing at least four people, according to witnesses. The Pentagon confirmed the bomb had gone off course due to technical error ... |
| 13th Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | In one incident a bomb destroyed four houses near Kabul airport killing one man and injuring a woman and two young children the Qatar-based television reported today ... |
| 18th Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | A civilian house was hit in the Haj Yaqoub
neighborhood of the city killing two residents ... Dozens of civilians have been killed in the twelfth night of US bombing of the Afghan capital Kabul, Al-Jazira television reported today ... At least four US bombs hit the neighborhood of Makrurian in the southwest of Kabul, in one incident wiping out an entire family ... In one building, an 18-year old man and his bride of a few days were killed along with their entire family ... Al-Jazira quoted claims by Taliban officials that a refugee convoy had been bombed yesterday near the city of Jalalabad and that twelve people had been killed ... |
| 18th Oct 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | An entire Afghani family was killed when a
U.S. fighter plane bombed the truck they were riding in while moving their
possessions out of the eastern city of Jalalabad, a Taliban official said
Thursday ... On Wednesday, Taliban sources said another family had been killed when the truck they were riding in while fleeing the southern city of Kandahar was bombed ... Mutaqqi said at least 40 civilians had been killed and more than 80 injured in overnight raids on Kabul, the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and the Jalalabad area ... At least 10 others have died in Khogiani, 24 miles (40 kilometers) southwest of Jalalabad, Mutaqqi said ... |
| 19th Oct 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | A US military helicopter crashed Friday in Pakistan while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, killing two US military personnel ... |
| 20th Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | The television showed two badly mutilated bodies amidst the ruins of a house, and it was impossible to tell if the bodies were male or female ... |
| 21st Oct 2001 | JORDAN TIMES | At least 20 civilians, including nine children, killed when the tractor and trailer on which they were fleeing US attacks on the southern town of Tirin Kot was bombed ... |
| 21st Oct 2001 | YAHOO NEWS | Afghanistan's ruling Taliban say their men have killed 20 to 25 U.S. commandos on their first lightning strike on Afghan soil, and insist that they have downed a helicopter with a rocket- ropelled grenade ... |
| 21st Oct 2001 | REUTERS | Eight members of a single family in the
Afghan capital were killed after air strikes destroyed their flimsy home on
Sunday ... In total, 18 people were killed and more than 20 wounded in the early morning air strikes ... |
| 22nd Oct 2001 | KHILAFAH.COM | Mola Dadollah Akhond said Taleban forces killed 50 enemy troops and captured 88 alive in the battle to retake Marmol gorge in Balkh Province ... |
| 22nd Oct 2001 | ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Taliban claimed Monday that U.S. and British planes struck a hospital in the western Afghan city of Herat, killing more than 100 people ... |
| 23rd Oct 2001 | JORDAN TIMES | At least 52 civilians killed in the bombing of Chakoor Kariz village, near Kandahar, according to Taleban officials ... |
| 23rd Oct 2001 | OUT THERE NEWS | Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said on Monday that 11 people had been killed in American bombing of a hospital in Herat, raising the death toll of civilians in two weeks of air raids to 1,000 ... |
| 24th Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | Up to 93 people were killed in a US air
attack on the village of Jokar, near Kandahar today Al-Jazeera reported from
the scene of the attack ... The Al-Jazeera correspondent reporting from the scene of the attack said that three people had been killed ... |
| 24th Oct 2001 | BBC NEWS | the BBC said the bomb killed 22 members of
the group which is linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist ring ... One Taliban rocket slammed into the public market at Charikar, 30 miles north of Kabul, killing two people ... |
| 25th Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | Regarding the military strikes, the
education minister in the Taliban government, Amin Khan Muttaqi, said that
American warplanes bombed Kabul Gate in the city of Kandahar and destroyed a
bus fully loaded with passengers ... The Taliban information minister Abdelhanan Hamt said that at least twenty people were killed when American warplanes dropped seven large bombs last evening on the village of Ishaq Suleiman, west of Herat ... The information said that twenty people were killed in a village near Kandahar and eight were killed within the city ... |
| 26th Oct 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | as heavy bombing of Kabul killed two young
girls, fuelling mouting concern over civilian casualties ... The United Nations said that nine people had been killed by a cluster bomb dropped on a village near the western city of Herat on Monday ... |
| 26th Oct 2001 | INDEPENDENT, UK |
Three children were killed in
overnight attacks on Kabul, hospital officials said ... |
| 27th Oct 2001 | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | Hearing planes firing overhead, a man in a
small farming town outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, ran to turn off the
headlights of his car. He was gunned down. His eldest son ran after him. He
also was killed ... Residents said 19 members of Shabbir's family were killed. Many of the survivors, who escaped to Pakistan in recent days with the help of family or international relief agencies, said that initially they may have supported the United States over the Taliban but now have turned against America and plan to fight if the U.S. or allies deploy ground troops ... Mohammed said his 20-year-old niece died in the raid as she ran into a field, holding an 8- month-old child. His nephew's family was wiped out ... In one recent case, reported from Quetta, Human Rights Watch found 23 people died Sunday in the village of Thori, a six-hour drive from Kandahar ... |
| 28th Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | The Al-Jazeera correspondent Taysir Allouni said that one completely destroyed house had nine occupants, of whom only one had emerged alive ... |
| 29th Oct 2001 | INDEPENDENT, UK | Three British Muslims have been killed
fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, the radical group Al-Muhajiroun
revealed yesterday ... Two unnamed American Muslims, who had also joined the Taliban, were said to have been killed when a missile hit a house where they were holding a meeting ... After refusing to comment on reports of intensive raids around Kabul yesterday causing at least 13 civilian casualties, including the seven children and their father, Mr Rumsfeld said the US was receiving "better intelligence" and was closing in on specific targets ... |
| 31st Oct 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | This came after an injured doctor said that American warplanes had bombed a clinic early on Wednesday morning in Kandahar causing death and injury. The Al-Jazeera correspondent in Kandahar said that 15 people had been killed and 11 injured in the attack. |
| 1st Nov 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | An AFP reporter who visited the remote village saw dozens of collapsed houses, one unexploded bomb and 18 fresh graves, but the numbers given by the villagers could not be confirmed ... |
| 1st Nov 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | Syed Abbas told AFP that US strikes killed
13 civilians, injured five doctors and destroyed a clinic operated by the
Afghan Red Crescent ... Meanwhile, two more British Muslims have died in Afghanistan ... |
| 2nd Nov 2001 | CONNETICUT NOW | Finally, however, she relented, and told him how her husband and all six children had been killed by American bombs that rained down upon their Afghan village on Oct. 21. |
| 2nd Nov 2001 | PAKISTAN NEWS SERVICE | United Nations Wednesday said that eight people of a family were killed in US-led airstrikes on Taliban's stronghold Kandahar in Afghanistan ... |
| 3rd Nov 2001 | BBC NEWS | Local people said up to 90 people had been killed and the attack appeared to have been "a very serious blunder on the part of the United States", said our correspondent ... |
| 3rd Nov 2001 | INDEPENDENT, UK | At least 25 people, and possibly as many as 35, were killed on the night of 22 October in Chowkar-Karez, a small village 25 miles north of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, according to reports based on the accounts of eyewitnesses in the village and survivors ferried to hospital in the Pakistani city of Quetta ... |
| 6th Nov 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | Maulvi Hammad said the body of Major John Bolton, who Taliban sources Sunday claimed died of kidney failure at a hospital in Kandahar, would arrive here in a day or two, SADA reported Monday. |
| 6th Nov 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | Afghanistan's Taliban regime said on Monday that 95 American soldiers had been killed since the launch of the US-led military campaign one month ago. "The death toll of US soldiers in this war has now approximately reached 95," the Taliban embassy in Pakistan said in a written statement ... |
| 8th Nov 2001 | FRONTIER POST NEWS | The Frontier Post has learnt from other sources that 45 US commandos were killed in this operation ... |
| 8th Nov 2001 | REUTERS | U.S. bombing in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed 85 fighters of a Pakistan-based militant group allied with the ruling Taliban, a spokesman for the militant Harkat Jihad-i-Islami (Alami) group said ... |
| 9th Nov 2001 | ASSOCIATED PRESS | ... while the opposition
suffered 28 killed and more than 30 wounded ... At least 22 civilians and four Taliban soldiers died in bombing across Afghanistan on Thursday, according to the Taliban's Bakhtar news agency ... |
| 9th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) also reported on Friday that 300 people were feared killed by U.S. bombing in Khakrez district ... |
| 10th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | More than 300 Afghan civilians were martyred in three villages near the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar after intense US bombing raids, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said Saturday. It said the final civilian death toll from the attacks in the three villages could exceed 300, with 133 bodies already recovered from one community called Shah Aga ... |
| 10th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | Three Taliban fighters and 14 civilians were martyred and 16 others were injured as US planes bombed civilian areas in Kandahar, Herat as well as front lines north of capital Kabul, Taliban envoy Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef said ... |
| 11th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | Meanwhile, U.S. planes attacked military installations north of the capital of Kabul on Saturday night, killing one civilian and injuring three, AIP said ... |
| 11th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | Northern Alliance forces led by Rashid Dostum after entering Mazar Sharif has started repression and genocide of Pashtoon people as they slaughtered women and children of Pashtoon village Kapri near Mazar Sharif ... |
| 11th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | Himat said around 30 other civilians had been killed in the north of Kabul, and in central Ghazni and southern Kandahar provinces overnight ... |
| 12th Nov 2001 | ATLANTA JOURNAL | "They put the nozzle of the gun in the baby's mouth," said Ghani, an Afghan refugee. "The baby began sucking it like the nipple of his mother's breast. Then they fired." Ghani, a truck driver, swore his story was true. It happened, he said, three weeks ago in Central Afghanistan. A fighter with the Northern Alliance pulled the trigger, he added ... |
| 13th Nov 2001 | SYDNEY MORNING HERALD | Three foreign journalists were killed in a Taliban ambush on Sunday in Afghanistan ... |
| 13th Nov 2001 | INDEPENDENT | Chilling stories of more than 100 pro-Taliban Pakistani fighters shot dead after their surrender in Mazar-i-Sharif and of Alliance gunmen "roaming the streets'' of the abandoned city will not come as a surprise to those who are aware of the atrocities committed by America's new allies during the 1992-96 fighting in Kabul ... |
| 14th Nov 2001 | GUARDIAN | "We gave them warnings to surrender," Mohammed Muhahiq, a spokesman for the opposition Shia militia, the Hizb-i-Wahdat, said. "They asked us to send representatives over several times, but unfortunately they (the representatives) shot them. Finally we gave the order to attack them. Some 200 of them [Pakistanis] have been killed." ... |
| 15th Nov 2001 | IANS INDIA PRIVATE LTD | Kandahar (IANS) Northern Alliance forces have killed around 300 Pakistani and Arab fighters in Kabul, besides hundreds of Taliban supporters who had surrendered, an eyewitness claimed ... |
| 16th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | Ebad said that several people had been killed as they tried to save the honour of their wives and daughters ... |
| 16th Nov 2001 | THE TIMES | More than 100 Alliance fighters were massacred on Tuesday after being captured by Taleban forces ... |
| 19th Nov 2001 | THE INDEPENDENT | A catastrophic error by carpet-bombing US Air Force warplanes was blamed yesterday for the deaths of about 150 unarmed Afghan civilians in a densely populated frontline town caught up in the battle for the Taliban redoubt of Kunduz ... |
| 19th Nov 2001 | REUTERS | Four journalists, including two from Reuters, are missing and feared dead after gunmen forced them from their cars east of Kabul ... |
| 20th Nov 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | United States air strikes on an old mujahedin base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday killed seven members of the newly installed anti-Taliban administration in the region, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency said ... |
| 24th Nov 2001 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | AT least 35 US special forces soldiers were killed and many injured in a firefight with pro-Taliban troops in southern Afghanistan, a Pakistani newspaper has reported ... |
| 24th Nov 2001 | AZZAM | 25 fighters of the
American-backed Hamid Karzai were killed by Taliban troops in an attempted capture of Helmand province. Large quantities of both Russian and American weapons were captured by the Taliban during this encounter ... American bombing continued in Kunduz, Kandahar and Jalalabad, killing over 50 civilians ... |
| 24th Nov 2001 | SF GATE NEWS | The American bomb
detonated, killing Ahmed, his five daughters, one of his wives and a son. Next door, it demolished the home of Sahib Dad and killed two of his children ... |
| 27th Nov 2001 | AZZAM | Three days after the Mujahideen prisoner revolt began in Mazar-i-Sharif, the last Mujahideen fighters were killed, fighting, as they vowed, to the last drop of blood. Hundreds of these Mujahideen, in a pre-planned martyrdom operation, managed to kill over 500 Alliance troops and dozens of US and British Special Forces soldiers, before they were martyred ... |
| 27th Nov 2001 | INDEPENDENT, UK | The Americans killed
more than 100 unarmed civilians in Khanabad in the last two weeks, relentlessly bombing heavily populated residential areas in the town, one of the last under Taliban control ... |
| 28th Nov 2001 | KYODO NEWS SERVICE | Sixteen U.S. Marines were killed by Taliban fighters when they landed Monday at an airfield near Kandahar, the militia's last stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a Pakistani daily reported Wednesday ... |
| 1st Dec 2001 | GUARDIAN, UK | He pointed to a large pile of broken bricks by a battered telegraph pole in the centre of the village, several hundred metres from the Taliban gun position. Ten civilians died ... |
| 2nd Dec 2001 | INDEPENDENT, UK | There were 30 houses in that village, more than 200 people. From a family of 40, only this boy and his grandmother are alive."... The dead in the Mairajuddin district are the first civilian victims of a new stage in the war in Afghanistan ... |
| 2nd Dec 2001 | KYOTO NEWS SERVICE | ''At least 50 marines are said to have been killed in ambush attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday night near Kandahar. Fifteen others were killed on Friday night,'' the Peshawar-based daily said, quoting sources close to the Taliban ... |
| 3rd Dec 2001 | INDEPENDENT, UK | A senior mujahedin commander said US strikes killed more than 100 civilians around Agam, 25 miles south of Jalalabad, on top of at least 70 killed in air raids on Saturday night ... |
| 4th Dec 2001 | PAKISTAN NEWS SERVICE | Sources have said that 25 stretchers carrying dead bodies of British soldiers were seen taking out of transport plane of Britain at the darkness of the night here. It has come to the knowledge of the local people that a centre has been set up for deads at the air base ... |
| 4th Dec 2001 | TELEGRAPH, UK | Almost 100 civilians had died over the past three days of raids, he added ... |
| 8th Dec 2001 | AZZAM | The deaths of 2000 innocent civilians in the last week, in the areas of Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul etc. is the clear evidence of the ruthlessness and terrorism of the US in its 'War against Terrorism' ... |
| 21st Dec 2001 | FRONTIER POST | The forces of commander
Hazrat Ali in Tora Bora have massacred brutally around two hundred alleged
al Qaida members along with their family members in last week ... Other sources in Tora Bora also confirmed killing of at least 30 fighters from Hazrat Ali group during gun battle with the al Qaida fighters ... |
| 23rd Dec 2001 | AZZAM |
US forces have been struck by the
first Taliban guerilla operation independent of the Arab Mujahideen, which
resulted in the deaths of several US soldiers and injuries of others ... |
| 27th Dec 2001 | AL-JAZEERAH | They hit the mosque while the Muslims were in prayer, killing 150 of them but Sheikh Jalal survived, may Allah bless his life ... |
| 29th Dec 2001 | AFGHAN ISLAMIC PRESS | Bushs remarks came the day after a US air raid killed at least 40 people in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika ... |
| 2nd Jan 2002 | REUTERS | The Reuters News Agency has reported statements from Paktia's local Shurah leader, Haji Saifullah, that the recent US bombing over Gardez has resulted in the martyrdom of not 15, but 107 people ... |
| 6th Jan 2002 | AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | US bombing raids on a suspected al-Qaeda base in eastern Afghanistan have killed 32 civilians in villages located nearby, the Afghan Islamic Press said Friday, citing witnesses in the area. |
| 9th Jan 2002 | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | A U.S. military plane carrying at least seven Marines crashed into a mountain in Pakistan tonight. There were no initial signs of survivors, according to Pentagon officials. |
| 20th Jan 2002 | BBC NEWS | Two American marines have been killed in a military helicopter crash in northern Afghanistan. Five others were injured in the crash, two critically, a military spokesman said. |
| 1st Feb 2002 | WSWS.ORG | In a one-sided battle in Kandahar on Monday, a US-led military force shot and killed six foreign Taliban supporters who had been barricaded into a ward of the Mirwais hospital since early December. |
| 10th Feb 2002 | NEW YORK TIMES | "Tell me why our homes were destroyed and 55 people even little children are dead?" asked an angry young man named Gul Nabi, standing in December among the 15 obliterated houses of a village named Madoo. |
| 15th Feb 2002 | REUTERS | Afghan Muslim pilgrims, angry over plane delays, have attacked and killed Afghanistan's interim transport minister at Kabul airport, Arabic-language al-Jazeera television has reported. |
| 18th Feb 2002 | THE TIMES, UK | THE international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan suffered a major blow to its credibility yesterday after British paratroops opened fire on a taxi taking a woman in labour to hospital, killing one person and wounding four more. |
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