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 by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Dec 3, 2018
A fourth US soldier has died as a result of a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan last week, the Pentagon said Monday. Sergeant Jason Mitchell McClary, 24, from Pennsylvania, died on Sunday, after being treated in a US military hospital in Germany, the Pentagon said in a statement. His death takes the number of American military personnel to have been killed in Afghanistan this year to 13. The November 27 attack saw an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near Ghazni city in central Afghanistan. Two other US troops and an American contractor were wounded in what was the deadliest single incident for US forces so far this year.
23 civilians killed in US air strike in southern Afghanistan: UN Kabul (AFP) Nov 30, 2018 At least 23 civilians, including women and children, were killed by a US air strike in southern Afghanistan earlier this week, according to an UN investigation, as ordinary Afghans continue to bear the brunt of the 17-year conflict. "Initial findings indicate that the vast majority of the victims were women and children," the UN mission in Afghanistan said in a report received by AFP late Thursday, adding that at least three people were also injured in the attack. The strike occurred during a fi ... read more
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