{"id":5132,"date":"2021-07-01T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T11:26:24","slug":"38000-afghan-civilians-killed-in-past-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/38000-afghan-civilians-killed-in-past-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"38,000 Afghan civilians killed in past 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The US Embassy in Afghanistan has said in a statement that over the last 12 years of war, over 38,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and over 70,000 have been injured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of mounting Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, the US on Wednesday urged the group to end the ongoing violence and return to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/28\/mfa-tells-pakistan-not-to-use-afghan-refugees-as-tool-for-political-pressure\/\">MFA tells Pakistan not to use Afghan refugees as tool for political pressure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/27\/exclusive-irans-revolutionary-guards-behind-talibans-deadly-assaults\/\">EXCLUSIVE: Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards behind Taliban\u2019s deadly assaults\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The US\u2019 Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires, Ross Wilson said in a series of tweets that firsthand accounts of Taliban offensives have been reported in different parts of the country and targeted attacks against civilians across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the Taliban to end the ongoing violence and return to the negotiating table\u201d, tweeted US\u2019 Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires to Afghanistan. He also quoted Ned Price, the State Department spokesman who said last week: \u201cThe world will not accept the imposition \u2026 by force of a government in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy said in a statement that the Afghan people have seen enough Afghan-on-Afghan violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Afghans \u2013 all Afghans \u2013 deserve the opportunity to go about their days \u2013 doing their jobs, attending schools, shopping in markets \u2013 without fearing for their lives\u201d, it quoted the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield as saying.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swn.english\">Follow Us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWN_English\">Follow Us on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The statement further noted the US remained firmly committed to assist Afghanistan and the Afghan people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs President Biden said on June 26 \u201cThe partnership between Afghanistan and the United States is not ending \u2026 we\u2019re going to stick with you.\u201d \u00a0We will continue to support the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and will provide $3 billion in security assistance in 2022.\u00a0 We urge an end to violence, respect for the human rights of all Afghans, and serious negotiations in Doha so that a just and durable peace may be achieved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The US Embassy in Afghanistan has said in a statement that over the last 12 years of war, over 38,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and over 70,000 have been injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,4,6,7],"tags":[12,13,187,203],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-us","tag-civilians"],"views":472,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}