3.200 civilians killed by NATO and US in Afghanistan since 2005

AFP is reporting: “Up to 3,200 civilians have been killed in NATO and US action in Afghanistan since 2005 but compensation payouts have been far lower than in other global cases, according to research by a US professor.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081007/wl_afp/afghanistanunrestcivilians7years_081007091818

Marc W. Herold: A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting" and "A Day-to-Day Chronicle of Afghanistan's Guerrilla and Civil War, June 2003 - Present"
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/

Civilian casualties in Shindand again

A case study about Shindand in Herat and civilian casualties in the Afghanistan War.

Some 1,600 displaced after US air raids in Shindand in Herat province (IRIN reports: 3 May 2007)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=71937

Shinwar
About the killing of 19 civilians in the Shinwar Massacre in Nangarhar.

U.S. Apologizes to Families for Killing Afghan Civilians (New York Times; May 8, 2007)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/world/asia/09afghancnd.html

260 civilian deaths in July 2008 in deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan

In July, 2008, about 260 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan. The NGO ACBAR (Agency Coordinating Body For Afghan Relief) expressed their “grave concern about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan & the serious impact on civilians”.

ACBAR Statement on "the Protection of Civilians in Afghanistan", 1 August 2008

English Version (.pdf)
Dari Version (.pdf)
Pashto Version (.pdf)

Website of ACBAR
http://www.acbar.org/

The report of IRIN about the statement of ACBAR: “AFGHANISTAN: Some 1,000 civilians killed since January - NGO body”:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79565

More and more civilians are getting killed by foreign forces in Afghanistan

“American air strikes alone have killed dozens of Afghan civilians, perhaps close to one hundred, in less than two weeks, as the fighting in the country intensifies”.

David Walsh is writing an article about the death of civilians for the WSWS: “US continues its killing of Afghan civilians”.
http://www.wsws.org:80/articles/2008/jul2008/afgh-j18.shtml

In his report he also argues: “The US military initially dismissed claims that the air strike [in Deh Bala] resulted in civilian deaths” and this “brutal comments express the outlook of colonial occupiers, indifferent to the fate of the natives.”

Again civilian casualties in Nangarhar

A US air strike in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, July 6, killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says. The eight other people who died were “between the ages of 14 and 18”.

The BBC reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501538.stm