Iranian attacks against Kurdish guerrillas that intensified in May have displaced hundreds of families on the Iraqi side of the border, wounded villagers and killed one teenage girl, a U.S.-based rights group said.
Human Rights Watch, which said it visited the affected area in northern Iraq in June, urged Iran to take 'all feasible precautions' to spare civilians at risk from artillery bombardment and other military operations in the border region.
Iranian security forces often clash with Kurdish rebels in the Islamic Republic's northwest, which borders Iraq.
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Meanwhile, Afghanistan Rights Monitor says that the Afghan war can't be won so long as Karzai is in charge.
It would take "a miracle" to win the war and restore viable peace in Afghanistan under the inept government of President Hamid Karzai despite a massive surge in foreign troops, a rights group said on Monday.
The surge had also driven violence to its worst levels since the Taliban's 2001 ousting, with 14 civilians killed or wounded on average each day, Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a new report.
"Contrary to President Barrack Obama's promise that the deployment ... would 'disrupt, dismantle and defeat' Taliban insurgents and their al Qaeda allies in the region, the insurgency has become more resilient, multi-structured and deadly," the group said.
The 30,000-strong troop lift was also clouding U.S. foreign policy objectives, with regional powers such as Pakistan, India and Iran flexing their muscles in the country ahead of an expected U.S. and NATO pullout, starting next year.
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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers
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its in there common interest, so they don't care.
It doesn't matter, no one is interested in winningm, just making money.
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