A U.S.-led airstrike killed 10 civilians, mostly women and children, in a raid on a Taliban hideout in a remote region of eastern Afghanistan, local officials said Wednesday.

"Five children, four women and a man were killed in the raid," Kunar provincial governor, Sayed Fazulullah Wahidi, told AFP.

A spokesman for NATO forces said they were investigating the allegations.

Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, warns Afghan civilians continue to suffer from longest running war in U.S. history. Civilian casualties caused by US-led NATO forces are a highly sensitive issue in Afghanistan and are regularly condemned by President Hamid Karzai.

Blackwater is now running a base just outside of Kabul used by the Special Operations Joint Task Force.

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Attacks by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, including airstrikes, have reportedly killed hundreds of children over the last four years, according to the U.N. body monitoring the rights of children. NY Daily Star

The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child told the United States this week that it is "alarmed at reports of the death of hundreds of children as a result of attacks and airstrikes by the U.S. military forces in Afghanistan." NY Daily Star

The United States carried out more drone strikes last year in Afghanistan than it has during its eight-year-long air war in Pakistan, launching 447 strikes and killing thousands. RT

Up to 11,864 civilians were killed in Afghanistan between 2007 until the end of 2011, according to a Congressional Research Service report published last December. The UN did not begin reporting on Afghan casualties until 2007.