A look at Afghan civilian deaths

_ March 4: U.S. Marines fleeing a suicide bombing and militant ambush open fire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses said. Officials say up to 10 civilians were killed and 35 injured. The Interior Ministry says American gunfire caused most of the casualties; U.S. officials say they are still sorting through the chain of events but that the suicide bombing or militant gunfire could have been responsible.

_ Feb. 27: NATO-led troops in the Kandahar shot and killed a civilian who drove too close to their convoy, police said.

_ Oct. 26: Between 30 and 80 civilians were killed during NATO airstrikes in Panjwayi, a volatile district in southern Afghanistan, according to the Afghan government and villagers. NATO said its preliminary inquiry found 12 civilian deaths.

_ Oct. 18: Airstrikes by NATO helicopters hunting Taliban fighters destroyed three dried-mud homes in Ashogho, in southern Afghanistan, as villagers slept, killing 13 people, police said.

_ July 10: U.S. military said more than 40 Taliban were killed in an airstrike in Tirin Kot. Residents said at least four civilians died.

_ May 21: U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in the village of Azizi in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 16 civilians, according to local officials.

_ April 15: A U.S. airstrike aimed at militants holed up in eastern Kunar province killed seven civilians, the military said.

_ April 30, 2005: Three civilians died in airstrikes that targeted Taliban militants, the U.S. military said.

_ July 1, 2005: A U.S. airstrike on a house in eastern Afghanistan killed as many as 17, including women and children, provincial officials said. The U.S. military confirmed some civilians died in the strike.

_ Jan. 17, 2004: An American airstrike on a village in Uruzgan province kills 10 civilians, including women and children, according to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

_Dec. 6, 2003: The U.S. military said an airstrike intended to target a Taliban commander killed nine children in an Afghan mountain village in eastern Ghazni province. The attack occurred the day after another strike on a suspected militant's compound in eastern Paktia province set off secondary explosions that killed six children.

_April 9, 2003: A U.S. warplane, called in to support allied Afghans under fire near the Pakistani border, mistakenly bombarded a home instead, killing 11 civilians.

_July 1, 2002: A U.S. airstrike killed 48 people during a wedding in attacks on five villages in Uruzgan province, Afghan officials said. A U.S. investigative report later confirmed 34 dead.