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Deadly 2007 Dutch attack on Afghan compound illegal, court rules

Dutch forces were part of the United States-led coalition that intervened in Afghanistan in the wake of 2001's deadly 9/11 suicide hijackings of passenger planes. [File: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP]

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a 2007 bombing of a residential compound in Afghanistan by Dutch forces was unlawful, and it ordered the country to pay compensation to the victims’ families.

The District Court of The Hague on Wednesday found that the nighttime attack that killed about 20 civilians violated international humanitarian law.

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