Kabul, Sept. 8 : The grainy video eight-minute footage, seen exclusively by The Times, has emerged as the most compelling evidence of a carnage perpetrated by American troops in Nawabad, Afghanistan, on August 21 this year.
The video has now prompted the Pentagon to reopen the investigation into the attack. An officer is being sent to Nawabad to review its previous inquiry.
Kabul - Civilian casualties from US and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan tripled last year to more than 500 and are eroding public support for the government, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
The New York-based organization's report issued Monday also condemned the Taliban's use of "human shields" during their attacks against the combined forces as "violation of the laws of war."
Kabul - A Dutch and a Canadian soldier were killed in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan while six Afghan civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed in a similar attack in the same region, officials said Monday.
The two soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed Sunday in Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces, the alliance said.
Kabul - The top US commander in Afghanistan has requested a new probe into allegations that a large number of civilians were killed in a US air raid in western Afghanistan on August 22.
Afghan government and UN teams said that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in the air raid in Azizabad village in Shindand district of Herat province.
Kabul, Sept. 8 : Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has blamed Britain for the resurgence of the Taliban and its growing activity in large tracts of his country.
Interacting with a group of Afghan MPs, Karzai said that he and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had a row over warlords and drugs barons.
According to The Times, Karzai claims Brown threatened to withdraw British troops from southern Helmand province, if Karzai took the step of reappointing two provincial governors sacked for alleged dealings in the heroin trade.
Kabul - Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari has invited his Afghan counterpart to attend his oath-taking ceremony next week, the Afghan government said Sunday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Zardari to congratulate him on his victory in the presidential poll Saturday, Karzai's office said in a statement.
"The Pakistani president invited him (Karzai) to take part in the oath-taking ceremony to be held in Islamabad soon," the statement said, adding that Karzai accepted the invitation.
Kabul, Sept. 8 : The grainy video eight-minute footage, seen exclusively by The Times, has emerged as the most compelling evidence of a carnage perpetrated by American troops in Nawabad, Afghanistan, on August 21 this year.
Kabul - Civilian casualties from US and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan tripled last year to more than 500 and are eroding public support for the government, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
Kabul - A Dutch and a Canadian soldier were killed in separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan while six Afghan civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed in a similar attack in the same region, officials said Monday.
Kabul - The top US commander in Afghanistan has requested a new probe into allegations that a large number of civilians were killed in a US air raid in western Afghanistan on August 22.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has blamed Britain for the resurgence of the Taliban and its growing activity in large tracts of his country.
Kabul - Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari has invited his Afghan counterpart to attend his oath-taking ceremony next week, the Afghan government said Sunday.
