{"id":17956,"date":"2018-10-11T02:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2018-10-11T02:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:23:01","slug":"deaths-of-civilians-spike-as-us-afghan-air-forces-pound-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17956","title":{"rendered":"Deaths of civilians spike as US, Afghan air forces pound Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The number of civilians &#8212; mostly women and children &#8212; killed or injured by airstrikes in Afghanistan has risen a startling 39% year on year, <a href=\"https:\/\/unama.unmissions.org\/sites\/default\/files\/unama_protection_of_civilians_in_armed_conflict_3rd_quarter_report_2018_10_oct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to UN figures released Wednesday<\/a>, casting fresh scrutiny on the use of air power by the United States and its Afghan partners at a time of near-record bombing and increasing violence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">More civilians have been killed or injured in airstrikes so far this year than all of last, according to a United Nations quarterly assessment of civilian casualties. The rise comes after the departed US commander for the war promised a &#8220;tidal wave of air power&#8221; to combat a resurgent Taliban. US President Donald Trump has personally delineated a strategy for victory in Afghanistan, and vowed to &#8220;push onward to victory with power in our hearts.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The UN report comes as the US ratchets up its involvement in what has become the country&#8217;s longest-running war. The US has boosted its support for the Afghan Air Force through training and weapons supply, raising concern over the air force&#8217;s use of US-supplied non-guided bombs that have taken a clear toll on civilian lives.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The number of civilians &#8212; mostly women and children &#8212; killed or injured by airstrikes in Afghanistan has risen a startling 39% year on year, according to UN figures released Wednesday, casting fresh scrutiny on the use of air power by the United States and its Afghan partners at a time of near-record bombing and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}