KABUL: A record 4,313 civilians were injured or killed in Afghanistan`s waragainst the Islamist Taliban between July and September, the United Nations(UN) said on Thursday.
The tally was up 42 per cent from the same period last year – in a war thatebbs and flows with the seasonal weather – and included more than athousand deaths, according to data from the U.N. Assistance Mission inAfghanistan (UNAMA).
That made it the bloodiest period in the world`s longest-running war sinceUNAMA began collecting like-for-like figures in 2009. It brought the totalof casualties for the first nine months of 2019 to over 8,000.
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“Civilian casualties at record-high levels clearly show the need for allparties concerned to pay much more attention to protecting the civilianpopulation, including through a review of conduct during combatoperations,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, one of the U.N.`s top officials inAfghanistan.
