The spokesman said despite the initial battlefield assessment, U.S.-led coalition forces have launched an investigation into the airstrike.
An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen is reported to hit a hospital run by the aid agency Medicine Sans Frontier.
The airstrike ability will set down a beacon that will call in an airstrike when activated.
He and General James Cartwright the vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs favored an airstrike by B-2 Spirit bombers.
The rocky relationship was recently highlighted with the accidental deaths of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in a U.S. airstrike along the porous border with Afghanistan.
On taking office he called the Kunduz airstrike militarily “appropriate” despite its horrific death toll.
Military officials in Pakistan say at least 20 militants were killed Friday in an airstrike in a northwestern border area.
This is how far the U.S. war effort in Iraq has wound down: There wasn't a single American airstrike in Iraq last month, according statistics from the U.S. air Force.
In a military setting this could mean passing pictures recognised as a convoy of moving vehicles to a person for confirmation before, say, calling down an airstrike.
Omar Khan was one of 11 villagers the Guardian interviewed about the airstrike.
The Afghan government says a NATO airstrike has killed 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan.
He was wounded in an airstrike and spent a month and a half recovering in a hospital in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the NATO force apologized Monday for the deaths of civilians Saturday in a U. s. airstrike in Helmand province, but its tally - nine - was lower than the count provided by Afghan officials.
Afghan officials who visited the region following Friday's airstrike said locals reported similar death tolls, and disputed that Taliban forces were in the region.
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