Kabul, November 28 (RHC)-- At least 10 people have been killed after unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the U.S. military carried out two separate assassination strikes across violence-plagued Afghanistan, according to reports from Kabul.

Local officials said a remote-controlled drone launched an airborne attack against a compound in the troubled southern province of Helmand on Thursday, leaving seven people dead. The development came hours after a similar attack in the Chak district of Afghanistan's central-eastern province of Maidan Wardak killed three people.

On Monday, a drone attack in the eastern province of Logar left at least four people dead. Six people were also killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Kamdish district of Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan on November 23rd.

Civilian casualties have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and U.S.-led forces, and have dramatically increased anti-American sentiments in the country. The U.S. carries out targeted killings through drone strikes in Muslim countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

Washington claims the targets of the drone attacks are militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of such raids over the past few years.