Most of the 170 troops who were supposed to back up the elite fighters during a battle in the northern town of Dawlat Abad stayed put out of fear that the operation had been leaked to the Taliban, an ...
DAWLAT ABAD, Afghanistan. — Over clear but unsteady video, the words ring out: “Surrender, commandos, surrender.” Several men emerge from a building; they are clearly unarmed. Gunfire erupts. At least ...
The United States has condemned the apparent execution-style killing of Afghan commandos by the Taliban, in what State Department spokesman Ned Price called an "atrocious" act. Price said on July 14 ...