President Hamid Karzai has warned the Nato-led force in Afghanistan that launching attacks on Afghan homes in pursuit of insurgents was "not allowed".
Speaking this morning in Kabul, Mr Karzai said patience with the tactic had run out after a spate of civilian casualties.
"Nato must learn that air strikes on Afghan homes are not allowed and that Afghan people have no tolerance for that anymore," Mr Karzai told a news conference.
The Afghan president reacted angrily after Nato air strikes on two homes inadvertently killed at least nine people - most of them children - in southern Helmand on Sunday.
Graphic television footage after the strikes showed grieving relatives holding the bodies of several children, including babies.
The commander of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the region later apologised for the deaths, saying the strikes on the compound had been ordered because insurgents were using them as a base.
Mr Karzai said Nato would be seen as an “occupying force” if it did not stop the air strikes.
He stressed that he had given Nato a "last warning" over air strikes and night raids but again did not go into any details about what his government would do if the tactics were not stopped.
"Afghanistan has a lot of ways of stopping it ... But we would like Nato to stop it on their own," Mr Karzai said.
Agencies