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US compensates Afghans for death, damage from war - World - TheState.com

US compensates Afghans for death, damage from war - World - TheState.com: "BADULA QULP, Afghanistan -- The fallout of war has a price in southern Afghanistan.

U.S. Army units fighting the Taliban in Helmand province have a compensation system for any death, injury or damage to crops and buildings caused by American forces to Afghan civilians and their property.

The suffering of a population caught between combatants during the Afghan war is a politically sensitive issue, and NATO troops have sought to make amends for deadly airstrikes and other instances in which civilians were killed."

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