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2019-03-27 Afghanistan
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Kabul: Five Civilians Killed In Afghan Forces Operation In Surobi
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[ToloNews] At least five civilians, including four women and one child, bit the dust in an operation by Afghan forces supported by foreign troops in Surobi district in Kabul on Monday, the Resolute Support confirmed on Tuesday.
"Last night, Afghan cops and a small contingent of US advisors conducted a raid in Surobi district, Kabul province," the Resolute Support front man Debra Richardson said.
"During the operation, Arclight airstrike s were used after Taliban
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fighters armed with machine guns were positively identified. Unfortunately, 4 women and 1 child were killed," he added.
"We own every munition - every strike - and while we strive to minimize non-combatant casualties through every stage of an operation from operational planning, to targeting to execution. The nature of war is horrific. The most effective way to end the suffering of non-combatants is to end the fighting," he added.
He said that they are reviewing the operation with their Afghan partners.
"It is likely the Taliban Sarobi District Shadow Governor was killed along with six Taliban fighters," he said.
Meanwhile,
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the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) said in a statement that Mullah Rasheed, a key commander of the Taliban, was killed in the operation in Surobi district in Kabul.
The statement added that casualties were inflicted to civilians in a counterattack by Afghan forces in response to the Taliban’s firing.
This comes as 13 non-combatants were killed in an operation by Afghan forces in the northern Kunduz province on March 22. UNAMA in a statement confirmed civilian deaths in Kunduz.
President Ashraf Ghani
 ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
on March 13 ordered the National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to abide by strict rules for preventing civilian casualties in their operations against holy warriors.
A UN report from last month shows that a record number of non-combatants were killed in 2018.
"As President of a responsible state, I must say that civilian casualties are the most tragic event in times of war, it pains me as much as any other Afghan when I hear about harm to civilians," Ghani said.
He made the remarks at a meeting with security bigshots from his cabinet as well as from the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
Ghani said the Afghan security agencies have taken urgent steps whenever they have received any reports on civilian casualties.
The United Nations
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in a report released last month said the organization has documented 3,804 civilian deaths, including 927 children, in 2018.
In total, UNAMA documented 10,993 civilian casualties (3,804 deaths and 7,189) maimed), representing a five percent increase in overall civilian casualties and an 11 percent increase in civilian deaths compared with 2017.
In this report, UNAMA attributes the majority of civilian casualties ‐ 63 percent ‐ to anti-government elements (37 percent to Taliban, 20 percent to ISIS, and 6 percent to undetermined anti-government elements).
According to the report, pro-government forces caused 24 percent civilian deaths (14 percent by Afghan national security forces, six percent by international military forces, and four percent by other pro-government gangs and forces).
The report says that key factors contributing to the significant increase in civilian casualties were a spike in suicide kabooms by anti-government elements, mainly ISIS, as well as increased harm to civilians from aerial and search operations by pro-government forces.
The report says that 2018 witnessed the highest number of civilian casualties ever recorded from suicide attacks and aerial operations. 
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