KABUL — Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog. Taliban-linked militants caused around 64 percent of all violent child deaths last year, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM)…
A top military intelligence chief is calling for revamped US intelligence efforts in Afghanistan in a scathing report that says the current focus on insurgent networks is “only marginally relevant.” Major General Michael Flynn, the top US and NATO military intelligence officer in Afghanistan, made the unsparing assessment in a…
Four years after Iran was thought to have suspended its weapons program they were testing the component that triggers the explosion of a nuclear bomb, according to a new report. Monday’s edition of British newspaper The Times includes an exclusive report, based on confidential documents, proving Iran was working on…