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U.S. airstrikes kill dozens of Taliban, civilians; U.S. warplanes bomb religious school and homes in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and at least 17 civilians in one of the deadliest strikes since the American- led invasion in 2001.

Vehicles ferried wounded villagers to a hospital in nearby Kandahar. One woman, cradling her injured baby, recounted seeing "dead people everywhere" after the nighttime attack.

Taliban violence escalates each spring with snow melting on mountain passes. But the scale of the assaults - and of U.S.-led response - has been greater this year.

According to coalition and Afghan figures, the airstrikes brought the ...

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