Startling details of the daring rescue mission that ended in the death of the British aid worker Linda Norgrove can be revealed today, as a joint US-UK investigation into the incident gets under way. The Guardian has learned that a member of US special forces who is believed to have accidentally killed Norgrove is likely to face disciplinary action after failing to inform his commanding officers t
Officials say a shift in U.S. war strategy has begun to take place in Afghanistan, away from classic counterinsurgency (protecting the population, providing basic services, promoting good government) and toward the traditional business of killing and capturing bad guys. Counterinsurgency (or COIN, as it’s often called) is hardly dead. Many U.S. troops are still very much engaged in COIN operations
Tankers parked near a restaurant were attacked overnight at Sibi, in Balochistan Pakistan will reopen a crucial overland supply route for Nato forces in Afghanistan with immediate effect, the country's foreign ministry has said. The border crossing at Torkham was closed 10 days ago in protest at a Nato helicopter attack inside Pakistan, which left two Pakistani soldiers dead.
The Taliban have removed the bodies of eight militants killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan, the BBC has been told. Pakistani security officials say that four of the dead were German nationals. They were killed by two missiles fired at a house in North Waziristan. A number of people were said to have been wounded. Security sources have closely linked the area to a reported al-Qaeda plot to atta
A prisoner has been "executed" on a British base in Helmand province by an Afghan soldier, Ministry of Defence documents have disclosed. The shooting of the detainee on the small UK-controlled patrol base in Musa Qala in March was revealed in an MoD training manual for troops deploying to Afghanistan. The manual was released as part of the Baha Mousa public inquiry into abuse of Iraqi prisoners. B
Israel says it launched the Gaza offensive in 2008 to halt Palestinian rocket attacks An Israeli military court has convicted two Israeli soldiers for using a Palestinian child as a human shield during an offensive in Gaza in 2009. The soldiers were found guilty of reckless endangerment and conduct unbecoming for forcing the nine-year-old boy to check suspected booby-traps. It is reportedly the fi
Mr Kan said the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, also claimed by China, belonged to Japan Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has expressed concern over China's maritime activities and military build-up, amid a lingering diplomatic row. He called on China to act as a "responsible member of the international community". Mr Kan made the comments in his first major policy speech since surviving a leadership chal
Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), and possibly a further cross-border raid today, came after recent
Apache helicopters were said to have taken part in the operations at the weekend Nato-led forces say they have killed more than 50 insurgents on Pakistani soil after rare pursuits across the border from Afghanistan. Apache helicopters are said to have taken part in the operations at the weekend. They followed an attack by insurgents on an Afghan security outpost in the eastern province of Khost. I
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