Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday said he was asking NATO to explain why innocent civilians were killed in a raid on the home of a former Afghan senator in the dark hours of Sunday morning in eastern Wardak province's Chaki Wardak district. Two of the three...

Increased nighttime military raids by US forces in Afghanistan have fueled resentment and undermined the mission to quell the insurgency, according to a report released Monday by Open Society Foundations, a New York-based thinktank. Obama has more than tripled the...