U.S. soldiers are seen through night-vision goggles in the Korengal Valley in 2009. With night-vision devices now in Taliban hands American commanders may opt to lift restrictions on supplying them to Afghan government forces
A Taliban spokesman claimed that 150 civilians were killed or wounded in the attack.
Dawood Shah Safari, head of the provincial education department, told RFE/RL that a total of 52 girls were transferred on April 2 to a hospital in Helmand Province's capital, Lashkar Gah.
Most of Helmand province is under the control of the Taliban, who oppose girls' education.
Afghan official said the air strike killed at least 30 militants and wounded many more, while the Taliban said the air strike hit a religious school during a graduation ceremony, killing or wounding almost 150 civilians. "I can confirm that a Taliban training center was bombed and no civilians were present", he said.
Meanwhile, an official with the public relation office of Pamir 20 Corps has also confirmed that Mawlawi Burhan, a senior member of Taliban leadership visiting the Taliban fighters to reorganize the group, was killed with 14 more insurgents in Dasht Archi district during the air raids against Taliban militants.
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The group's spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid denied that any of its forces were present.
The defense ministry says that the area has been tightly controlled by the Taliban. A number of children were being treated for wounds at a local hospital, indicating civilians were in the area.
However, locals believe that the number of casualties might be higher than reported.
In 2016, an Afghan airstrike killed anotherprominent Taliban commander, Mawlavi Muawiyah, in Dasht-e-Archi, along with 21 other fighters, according to the military.
Military helicopters fired rocket shells onto a Taliban facility in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, on Monday. "Any claims to the contrary are baseless", she said in an emailed statement.
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