Reisdents in southern Afghanistan are accusing Nato and Afghan troops of killing 13 civilians after opening fire on a group of demonstrators.
Nato insists the only person killed was a sniper.
The shootings happened in Helmand province, where people were protesting against a raid in which troops allegedly destroyed copies of the Quran.
Hashem Ahelbarra reports.
January 10, 2010
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, has accused NATO and US forces of taking the fight against the Taliban dangerously close to the Afghan population.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Karzai said a growing civiilan backlash is fast becoming a bigger risk to stabiltiy than teh Taliban itself.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from the capital, Kabul.
Shortly after Barack Obama, the US president, made the decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Nato secrteary-general, announced the alliance would also be sending more soldiers to fight in the war.
He said Nato members would send at least 5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, but the announcement comes at a time of waning public support for the conflict.
Tim Frined reports from London in the UK.
A joint Afghan-Nato raid has outraged Afghan villagers, who claim innocent civilians were killed.
The operation took place in the village of Haiderabad in Ghazni province early on Friday morning.
David Chater reports.
While Pakistan continues the struggle to tame its Taliban elements, coalition forces are claiming some success in neighbouring Afghanistan.
A joint operation by foreign forces and Afghan army has killed Ghulam Yahya Akbari, a Taliban commander, in the western province of Herat.
He was believed to be behind the growing insecurity in Herat.
But as Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Kabul, it is not clear if the killing will lead to any stability.