Family Killed in CIA-Backed Strike Force Operation - Nangarhār 2019
Incident- Date
- Mar 23, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Behsud
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.3488191879096
Longitude: 67.9116008987594
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Behsud
- Town/Village
- Gardi Kas, Behsud, Nangarhār Province
- Types of incident
- Ground Attack
- Shooting
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- CIA backed Afghan Military Strike Force
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Five civilians were killed and three others were wounded during a military operation conducted by an Afghan strike force that is trained and overseen by the CIA in Gardi Kas village. Four of the five killed were members of the same family. The incident occurred as the specialized Afghan unit carried out operations in the area.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 8
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