2 Afghan boys killed in US attack
(From yet another US atrocity)
Two Afghan teenage farmers have been killed in a US air strike in Kunar province in northeastern Afghanistan, a few days after a UN report showed a 15 percent increase in civilian fatality in the war-torn country compared to 2009.
The overnight US air strike targeted the two brothers in Chowaki district when they were coming back from the family farm, a Press TV correspondent reported Tuesday. The two brothers, aged 12 and 16, were coming back from the farm where they have been irrigating the plantation at night time, the report added.
The news comes a few days after a US-led air strike claimed the lives of nine children, aged between seven and nine, in Darah-Ye Pech district in Kunar province. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said late Tuesday it was probing the civilian casualties after its troops carried out an aerial operation in the area. Last week, the Afghan government confirmed that the US-led military alliance had killed scores of civilians during recent operations in the northeastern part of the war-torn country. The Afghan government said its probe had found that the US-led foreign forces killed 65 civilians, many of them children in Kunar province. Thousands of Afghan people have so far lost their lives as a result of military operations by the foreign troops since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. Afghan officials, including President Hamid Karzai, have repeatedly condemned and called for an end to foreign troops' attacks on Afghan civilians.
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