The number of civilian casualties resulting from the conflict in Afghanistan has risen for a fifth consecutive year, the United Nations reported today, blaming a change in tactics by the Taliban and other anti-Government forces for the higher death toll.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 6, 2012 – The commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan reacted over the weekend to a United Nations report that notes a decline in coalition-related civilian casualties.
Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2012 – An International Security Assistance Force helicopter crew survived after their aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan today, military officials reported.
3 February 2012 – The appeals chamber of the United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia trying cases of mass murder and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge regime today sentenced the former head of a notorious detention camp to life in prison, upholding an earlier conviction and extending the existing jail term.