Civilians Killed

• Pakistan conducted air strikes across the border into Afghanistan, claiming to have killed 26 fighters from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). • The Taliban government has disputed these claims, asserting that the attacks targeted civilians and resulted in the deaths of 11 children. • This escalation highlights the ongoing tension between Pakistan and the Taliban over the TTP's use of Afghan soil to launch attacks.

Newly released evidence from inquiry into 80 deaths shows Afghan partner forces no longer willing to work alongside British by 2011Concerns about the number of Afghan civilians being killed by British special forces in the early part of the last decade prompted the country’s then president to make a “muscular” complaint to Nato commanders fighting the Taliban.Newly released evidence from a public inquiry into the deaths of up to 80 people during an SAS deployment also showed that Afghan partner military forces were no longer willing to work alongside the British by the spring of 2011. Continue reading...