VOA News November 15, 2016 WASHINGTON — An International Criminal Court investigation of possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan is not “warranted or appropriate,” the U.S. State Department said Tuesday after prosecutors in The Hague found initial grounds for such a probe. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the United States was not a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 15, 2016 Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court say they have “reasonable basis” to believe the United States committed “war crimes” by torturing prisoners in Afghanistan. The U.S. military subjected at least 61 detainees in Afghanistan to “torture, cruel treatment, [and] outrages upon personal dignity,” an initial investigative report said
Press TV November 5, 2016 Hundreds of people have taken part in a funeral procession for more than 30 civilians, who were killed in an airstrike carried out by the so-called US-led military alliance near the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The funeral was held on Friday for the victims of Thursday’s air raid on the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 3, 2016 Eight Afghans detained in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have been imprisoned for years on the basis of “vague accusations” rife with “gross errors of fact,” according to a new report. The report, titled Kafka In Cuba, The Afghan Experience In Guantanamo, was published on November 3
Global Research: Kevin Frost, a special forces sergeant in the Australian Army, has done something unusual. He wishes, even demands, to be tried for his role behind the summary execution of an Afghan prisoner in his captivity during a tour of the country. From Frost came a statement to an inquiry digging through allegations of war crimes
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 22, 2016 The Afghan government has signed a draft peace accord with notorious exiled warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for his return after years of fighting the central authorities. A government delegation and a team representing Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e Islami militant group signed the document at a press conference in
Press TV September 6, 2016 Amnesty International says a recent bombing and shooting attack by militants on the office of an international charity organization in the Afghan capital Kabul constitutes a “war crime.” “The attack by an armed group on the aid agency CARE International… is the deliberate targeting of civilians and constitutes a war
Press TV May 2, 2016 The survivors of a fatal US airstrike on a hospital have called for those responsible to stand trial, dismissing Pentagon’s recent probe that the bombardment did not amount to a war crime. “This report is an absolute insult to the victims of MSF hospital in Kunduz,” said Esmatullah Esmat, who
The Guardian (UK): The Pentagon is due to release a report on an internal investigation into one of the most infamous episodes of the war in Afghanistan: a special operations airstrike on a hospital in the north of the country last year that left 42 civilians dead. The report provides an official assessment of the failings that