NATO-led forces shot and killed two Afghan policemen and wounded three others at a checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan. When Afghan police, funded and trained by NATO forces to fight a ten-year long insurgency in Afghanistan, asked a convoy of NATO soldiers approaching a checkpoint to stop, they were shot and killed in a firefight. the Afghan [...]
An assembly of tribal elders in Afghanistan has agreed to a long-term security deal with the U.S. but is imposing some conditions, including an end to night raid operations and a demand to hand over Afghan detainees in U.S. custody. The traditional council of 2,000 elders, or loya jirga, was put together by Afghan President [...]
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