Five Afghan non-combatants were killed when warplanes of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
-led troops carried out air strikes against Taliban in Pashtun-infested Logar province, provincial officials said.
Officials did not provide more details about the incident.
It comes as four other Afghan non-combatants were killed and 14 others were maimed in a kaboom in northern Faryab province, officials said.
The incident happened when a bomb that was placed in a
cycle of violence went off near a mosque went kaboom!in Almar district of the province, officials in Faryab hospital said.
Local police also confirmed the incident and said they have started investigation about the blast.
One other Afghan civilian was killed in a mine blast near police headquarters of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province today, local officials said.
Officials in Herat hospital said that one Afghan civilian was killed in the blast and ten others were maimed.
Afghan police have suffered no casualties in the blast, Herat police said.
Militants use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces in the country. But the main victims are often civilians.