Nine insurgents were killed and there were no Afghan or coalition casualties, according to the U.S. military.
The eight British and four American dead were the first coalition casualties of the war against Iraq.
Factors on both sides of the fighting resulted in fewer coalition casualties, according to retired U.S. Air Force Maj.
Kerry often says Bush has alienated allies and entered Iraq without a broad coalition, noting that 90 percent of the coalition casualties have been Americans.
Conversely, the number of coalition casualties remains amazingly low.
Most of the film was shot in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, the cradle of the Taliban and the region responsible today for two-thirds of all U.S. and other coalition casualties.
In fact, given the nature of the operation, coalition casualties have been light. (In a battle for Nasiriya with the Ottomans in 1915, the overconfident British, whose supply lines were also stretched thin, lost 500 men.) Iraq has suffered an unknown but far higher number of combat casualties: several hundred Iraqis were reportedly killed in an engagement at Najaf on March 25th-26th.
There were no British casualties and there was no word from coalition forces on any Iraqi casualties.
The coalition forces have recently taken casualties at a much lower rate than at the peak of the insurgency in April.
It was also an attempt by coalition forces to minimize Iraqi casualties.
Al-Sahaf, speaking mostly in English for the first time since the war began, issued a list of civilian areas he said the coalition had bombarded, enumerating casualties in villages and neighborhoods.
Do you have any information about the casualties caused by the coalition.
The coalition has not confirmed any civilian casualties, citing the ongoing investigation.
The RDAs were one of the first casualties of the incoming coalition government's spending cuts and its drive against what many Conservatives dismissed as "unaffordable quangos".
The first bomb, targeting coalition forces, resulted in no casualties.
As we expected and warned, U.S. coalition and Afghan forces are suffering more casualties as we push into these areas long controlled by the Taliban.
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While the U.S.-led coalition is still investigating the reports of civilian casualties, a U.S. military official expressed doubt about the high death toll.
Although the Taliban had less than 8 percent support in Afghanistan at the end of 2007, according to an ABC poll, Afghan public opinion is turning against the U.S.-led coalition partly because of the rising number of civilian casualties as the U.S. military hunts down terrorists with airstrikes.
Coalition forces repelled the attack, inflicting "heavy enemy casualties, " and calling in airstrikes, the alliance said.
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The U.S.-led military coalition, in a statement issued Wednesday, said the casualties occurred in an "unprovoked attack" by about 25 insurgents in southeastern Afghanistan near Deh Chopan in Zabul province on Tuesday.
Last month, Karzai insisted that the coalition forces cease all airstrikes, after a NATO assault caused civilian casualties.
He also threatened to turn to China and Russia as alternative military allies and intensified his criticism of the coalition, regularly issuing statements that condemn the U.S. for causing civilian casualties.
But the heavy civilian casualties caused an outcry both within and without Iraq, forcing the American-led coalition to abandon the city to the rebels.
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