A human rights group urged nations participating in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan to follow Australia's example and investigate the conduct of their own forces in the war.
Nearly half of all Afghans want U.S. and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan once a peace deal to end the country’s 18-year war is signed with the Taliban, according to a survey released Thursday.
The gains religious minorities and women have made will be lost since both groups will be severely curtailed and persecuted if the Taliban return, as they have not changed since their downfall in 2001, the author of this commentary writes.
The latest report by a government watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction raises further questions about the ability of Afghan forces to operate on their own.
When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the Taliban have retaken half the country, security is worse than it’s ever been, and many Afghans place the blame squarely on the Americans.