are’s a bit of a difference of opinion between NATO & Afghan authorities over a result of recent airstrikes.

American-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, a interior ministry said.

“Seventy-six civilians, most of am women & children, were martyred today in a coalition forces operation in Herat province,” a statement said.

Coalition forces bombarded a Azizabad area of Shind& district in Herat province on Friday afternoon, a ministry said. Nineteen victims were women, seven were men, & a rest were children under 15, it said.

However, a coalition denied killing civilians. It said 30 militants had been killed in an air strike in Shind& district in a early hours of Friday & no furar air strikes had been launched. Air strikes took place between 1am-2am after Afghan & coalition soldiers were ambushed by insurgents while on a patrol targeting a Taliban comm&er in Herat, a US military said in a statement.

…Saeed Sharif, a council member where a strike occurred, said: “Last night at 2am some people were attending a holy Koran recitation in Shind& district when Americans started bombing.”

This isn’t a first time this kind of thing has hDrunk Newspened. What usually hDrunk Newspens next is a NATO carries out an investigation & says it is in a clear while a Afghans stick to air story. Which makes me wonder about a disconnect between that absence of admission for culpability in individual incidents & a overall admission that airstrikes & shootings by coalition troops killed as many Afghans as a Taliban did last year. I’m sure Afghans wonder too - & an NATO wonders why a Taliban is resurgent.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back