A night raid by US and Afghan forces led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity that NATO then tried to cover up, survivors told the London Times.
A controversial policy that gives US forces in Afghanistan four days to question detainees is being changed to give soldiers more time to interrogate the captives, Gen. David Petraeus said.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit demanding the US disclose information on use of unmanned drones to conduct targeted killings.
A Defense Department official set up a secret network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, the New York Times reports.
The Afghan government should urgently act to repeal a law that provides an amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch says.
A building of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Lahore was targeted in a suicide blast, killing 13—but officials say it was beyond the Taliban’s capability.
Fierce clashes left some 50 fighters dead in northeast Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, pitting Taliban forces against their erstwhile allies in Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e-Islami.
At least 17 people were killed and 32 wounded when multiple suicide bombers attacked a hotel popular with foreigners and the surrounding area in the center of Kabul.
Pakistani authorities are reported to have arrested nearly half of the Afghan Taliban’s top leadership, in what is being portrayed as a crucial blow to the insurgent movement.
The Netherlands’ coalition government collapsed after the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw Dutch troops from Afghanistan later this year.
An Afghan Taliban spokesman denied reports that the organization’s military commander Mullah Baradar had been arrested by US and Pakistani forces in a secret operation.
Two NATO rockets aimed at insurgents in Helmand province missed their target, killing 12 civilians sheltering in their home. The strikes came as part of a new anti-Taliban offensive.
