US Drone Kills 5 Allied Afghan Troops, mistaking them for Taliban

Juan Cole 03/07/2014

NATO air strike kills five Afghan soldiers (via AFP)

A NATO air strike in eastern Afghanistan accidentally killed five Afghan soldiers on Thursday, officials said, the latest incident likely to worsen already fraught relations between Kabul and the US-led coalition. NATO offered its condolences over the…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Follow him at @jricole