U.S. soldiers take a knee while providing security for U.S. engineers and Afghan soldiers during a road construction project in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, March 30, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Hackbarth
Civilian Casualties Mounting As Taliban Begin Spring Offensive -- Stars and Stripes
KABUL — Nearly 60 civilians were killed in the past week in Afghanistan in several bloody incidents, the most recent on Monday morning when a crowded bus struck a bomb in the eastern province of Wardak.
The high incidence of civilian casualties seems to be a continuation of an upward trend noted in a February report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) that showed a 13 percent increase in non-combatant deaths in the last six months of 2012 compared to the year before.
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