Kunar Raid

The Kunar Raid was an incident which took place on February 17, 2012. Six civilians, including a woman and a child were killed in the air and ground raid near the Dewa Gul Valley, a Taliban stronghold in the Chawki district of Kunar province.

Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest NATO's actions. President Hamid Karzai sent a delegation to investigate the incident, the President's office said in a statement, adding that witnesses confirmed that six civilians were killed.