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Great Satan US-led airstrikes kills child in southern Afghanistan

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A 9-year-old Afghan has been killed in a deadly airstrike by the US-led forces in the troubled southern province of Helmand, Press TV reports.

Local Afghan police sources say the boy’s father and sister were injured after warplanes from the Western military alliance attacked a residential area in the volatile region on Monday.

US-led forces have confirmed the airstrike, saying civilians were targeted by mistake.

Meanwhile, at least two people were killed in a similar attack in the eastern province of Gazni on Sunday.

Thousands of Afghan civilians, including a large number of women and children, have been killed during night raids by foreign forces and CIA-run assassination drone strikes.

The growing civilian death toll in US-led forces operations has intensified anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan.

The latest aristrikes come at a time when the US is now pushing the Afghan government to sign a security deal to allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014.

The Afghan president has grown increasingly hostile towards the US government over a controversial security agreement that would allow thousands of American troops to remain beyond the 2014 withdrawal deadline.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has recently said that he “saw no good” in the US presence in Afghanistan, noting that the US-led NATO mission has failed to bring security.

The Afghan president also warned that he will not allow continued foreign presence if it means more bombs and civilian killings.

Afghan political groups have also heaped scorn on the US-led forces for committing unforgivable crimes against Afghan women and children since invading the country in 2001.

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