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Kabul, Feb 15 (EFE).- At least eight civilians, including a child, have been killed in an airstrike that targeted Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, government officials said on Saturday, amid a breakthrough in peace talks between the United States and the insurgent group.The air raid was carried out on Friday afternoon in the eastern province of Nangarhar. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).FOOTAGE SHOWS THE AFTERMATH OF THE AIR RAID IN NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN.
Dozens of Afghan civilians were killed in NATO-led air strikes that were called in when U.S. and local troops came under heavy fire during an operation in the north of the country. Mana Rabiee reports.
Two U.S. service members and over 30 civilians, including women and children, were killed in air strikes in Kunduz on Thursday. The air strikes were called in to protect U.S. and local troops in clashes against the Taliban.
At least 13 people are dead after militants opened fire on vehicles travelling along the Kabul-Ghazni highway in Wardak province's Sayad Abad district in Afghanistan at around midnight Tuesday.
At least 108 civilians have been killed in January in a series of airstrikes in the war-torn northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, Liz Throssell, a spokeswoman for the UN human rights office, tells reporters in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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