A Taliban commander's house was hit by an airstrike that killed nine civilians, among them four women, two children, and two insurgents

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۹ وری ۳
Year of Incident
2020
Province of incident
Kunduz: Imam Sahib
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 37.2128366641776

Longitude: 68.8728064247648

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Imam Sahib
Town Village
Konjak, Yaka Tot
Types of Incident
  • Air Strikes
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Taliban
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
Summary

The Taliban attacked three security outposts in the Konjak area of Imam Sahib District, where clashes continued for an hour. The Taliban escaped from the area after air support arrived. One Taliban commander entered his brother’s house in Yaka Tot village just before the house was targeted by an airstrike that killed nine civilians, among them four women and two children, and two insurgents.

Sources

Afghan War Casualty Report: March 2020, Fahim Abed, New York Times, 26 March 2020, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report-march-2020.html