The botched operation had triggered demand for repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, which gives army in troubled areas sweeping powers to crackdown ...
The Taliban’s strategy of coercion and persuasion was repeated across the country, unfolding for months as a focal point of the insurgents’ new offensive this year...
The outfit has taken charge of more than 210 of Afghanistan’s roughly 420 districts in recent months, Milley told reporters at a Pentagon news conference...
“It’s just numbers and facts and complete normalisation of trauma. So then what happens to those who survive?” she asks in her book Rumours of Spring...