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Afghanistan

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

Juan Cole 03/07/2014

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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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Filed Under: Afghanistan, Drones, Uncategorized, US Foreign Policy

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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