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03.06.20

Shadow Wars

Finding the faces of Afghanistan's slaughtered civilians

The Bureau and Bellingcat spent two months uncovering mounds of evidence from a list of 21 strikes believed to have killed civilians

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03.06.20

Shadow Wars

The families paying the price for the war in Afghanistan

There is a deeply worrying lack of transparency around civilian casualties in Afghanistan almost 20 years after US operations began

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16.10.19

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Rare admission of guilt from US for killing Afghan child in air strike

US military has admitted a strike in October killed a child. To our knowledge, the US has only admitted six civilian deaths so far this year, despite allegations of many more

31.07.19

Shadow Wars

Threefold rise in civilian casualties from US air strikes in Afghanistan

Hundreds more Afghan civilians are being killed or injured by US air strikes as the allied forces step up the aerial campaign against the Taliban

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