SAWKAI, Afghanistan, Oct 6, 2007 (AFP) - About 800 angry Afghans demanded Saturday that US-led forces quit their area to end heavy fighting as an Afghan official alleged foreign troops had shot dead two civilians in error.

Demonstrators in Sawkai district of the eastern province of Kunar shouted slogans against the coalition forces, alleging a new bombing raid overnight had destroyed eight homes, an AFP reporter said.

The US-led coalition and the separate NATO-led force that also operates in Afghanistan said they had no information about any strikes in the area.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Oct 1, 2007 (AFP) - Taliban militants hanged a teenager found with a five-dollar note and separately beheaded a villager after accusing both of spying for US forces, Afghan officials said Monday.

The rebels also shot dead an elderly man who had asked for government help to build a water channel, they said, in the latest executions in an intensifying Taliban-led insurgency in which civilians are being caught up.

KABUL, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - NATO warplanes killed six Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, in an air strike during a battle with Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, a district governor told AFP Friday.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) admitted civilians were killed in the attack in the southern province of Helmand but it did not say how many died.

KABUL, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - NATO warplanes killed an unspecified number of Afghan civilians in an air strike during a battle with Taliban fighters, the alliance's force in Afghanistan said Friday.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said they were killed on Wednesday in the southern province of Helmand. It did not say how many died.

'Taliban fighters attacked ISAF from a compound and an airstrike was called in to neutralise the threat,' the 37-nation coalition said in a statement.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - Soldiers killed a dozen rebels near one of the Taliban's largest strongholds in Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said Sunday, as locals said several civilians were killed or wounded.

The coalition denied there were any civilian casualties in the fighting late Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, which sees some of the fiercest fighting between the Taliban and security forces.

One village elder said 18 people, including women and children, were killed when war planes struck as a wedding was under way.

WASHINGTON, Aug 3, 2007 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush is 'absolutely satisfied' that the US military does everything it can to spare civilians when conducting airstrikes in Afghanistan, the White House said Friday.

'He's absolutely satisfied that our military does everything in its power to avoid innocent loss of life,' spokesman Scott Stanzel said two days before Bush was due to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Camp David retreat.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 3, 2007 (AFP) - An airstrike on a large Taliban gathering killed dozens of rebels, the defence ministry said Friday, with at least 30 civilians wounded and unconfirmed reports of many more killed.

The US-led coalition forces said they had conducted a 'precision air strike' against two notorious Taliban commanders meeting in the rebel-controlled and remote area of Baghran district in the southern province of Helmand.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 3, 2007 (AFP) - At least 20 civilians were wounded and many others feared killed in an air strike by US-led forces on a Taliban-controlled district in southern Afghanistan, local police said Friday.

The US-led coalition forces said they had conducted a 'precision air strike' against two notorious Taliban commanders who were meeting in a remote area of the Baghran district of Helmand province.