Posted on 12/20/2014 6:55:16 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit a record high this year, a UN report says, highlighting worsening violence as US-led troops leave the country after more than a decade of fighting the Taliban.
Casualties jumped 19 per cent by the end of November compared to the year before, with 3,188 civilians killed and 6,429 injured, the United Nation's Mission's for Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a report.
Ground fighting between troops and insurgent groups and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) remained leading causes of deaths and injuries, while the Taliban was accountable for 75 per cent of all civilian casualties, the report said.
Compared to 2013, this year also saw a 33 per cent rise in casualties among children and a 12 per cent increase among women, according to the report released on Friday.
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Hard to tell the players without a scorecard.
CC
Yes sir, we really got those people to get along.
But wait, the US was the one indesciminently killing civilian women and children...
How can this be?
“...after more than a decade of fighting the Taliban...”
I will NEVER understand why it took a DECADE to defeat a bunch of backwater goatfockers!
I will ALSO never understand that once things WERE under control, why 0bama announced our pull out with times and dates and numbers. (Yeah, that’s rhetorical!)
So much blood and treasure lost. AND FOR WHAT? Not a flippin’ thing.
Grrrrrrrrr!
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