The Iraqi government does not keep precise records of civilians killed and neither do US forces.
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The Pakistani and local people are saying there were civilians involved as well, civilians killed.
Were the dead people in those coffins really civilians killed by last night's airstrikes?
They were the corpses of civilians killed in Kosovo, stashed away to hide them from war-crimes probes.
"It has not been possible to determine the number of civilians killed and injured, " the agency said.
Authorities claim the sites contain bodies of Macedonian civilians killed by ethnic Albanian insurgents earlier this year.
Earlier this summer he said that he was not losing sleep over Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli bombs.
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Most of the 10 civilians killed in the 13 February air strike on Kunar were women and children.
The number of civilians killed in such attacks in January was half the rate of a year ago.
That's a website that attempts to track the number of civilians killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
The group said it had decided execute him to avenge the deaths of the dozens of Muslim civilians killed during Friday's operation.
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Both sides are now armed in an uprising that has taken nearly 30, 000 lives, most of them civilians killed in government onslaughts.
In Afghanistan, the U.N. has reported that five drone strikes in 2012 resulted in civilian casualties, with 16 civilians killed and three wounded.
Yet residents of New Orleans are being killed at a rate that is six times that of Afghan civilians killed in that war.
Even if it is the case that there are relatively few civilians killed in the strikes, the drone program is quite unpopular in Pakistan.
Dissidents say many of the civilians killed were caught in aerial attacks from warplanes -- unable to predict when the next bomb will strike.
The number of Iraqi civilians killed last month was the highest in any month since the U.S. invasion three and a half years ago.
In Babylon, a Shiite-majority province south of Baghdad, a suicide bomber and an improvised explosive device aimed at civilians killed nine people and wounded 53.
Major Luke Knittig announced this week NATO would pay compensation to the families of at least 12 civilians killed during a recent clash with the Taliban.
She calls the 1, 000-or-so civilians killed in Lebanon in the latest round of fighting a price worth paying in what she considers a victory against Israel.
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The United Nations recorded 2, 118 civilians killed in the conflict last year, 39% higher than in 2007 and the highest yearly toll since the fall of the Taliban.
To Westerners, the idea that the perpetrator of these crimes seems to be a mentally unstable soldier marks an important distinction from civilians killed, say, during crossfire in military operations.
Dr. Hassan Khaliday's friend, Mohaned, was one of 656 civilians killed or found dead in Baghdad during the month of August, according to figures compiled by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
Authorities did not detail the number of civilians killed, but they did confirm the deaths of seven police, including the chief and deputy chief of the national police's special operations unit.
She said more than 60 percent of civilians killed have been killed by the Taliban, and since January, more than 450 innocent Afghans have been killed and more than 1, 000 others have been injured.
For 13 months, violence has raged between al-Assad's forces and the opposition in a lopsided battle that has seen thousands of civilians killed amid a number of international attempts to broker a peace deal.
He pointed out U.S. claims that civilians killed in an explosion at a downtown Baghdad market were the victims of Iraqi missiles, and that Iraq had said the missiles were definitely incoming coalition fire.
The U.S. government should track the number of civilians killed in its military operations abroad and limit collateral damage from unmanned drone attacks, Special Investigator Philip Alston said in a stinging report submitted Wednesday to the U.N.
That compares to 818 Afghan civilians who were killed during the same period in 2008, while 684 civilians were killed during the first half of 2007.
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