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CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.

The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. military from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses, but it does not apply to U.S. intelligence agencies. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy said it should.

The Vermont senator says the agencies should be barred from providing training and equipment to human rights violators.

For many Afghans, terror came when night fell — and over the years, the CIA-backed night raids killed countless civilians. Then, the U.S. left.   

Former Zero Unit members are facing a reversal of fortune that is humiliating, infuriating, and utterly intractable.

Absent a major, credible transnational terrorist threat, Afghanistan has returned to where it should have always been: a peripheral concern of the United States and the West.

At least 7,000 evacuated from Afghanistan last year are still in a temporary refuge in the United Arab Emirates. They have no idea if or when they’ll leave.

At least 7,000 evacuated from Afghanistan last year are still in a temporary refuge in the United Arab Emirates. They have no idea if or when they’ll leave.

WITH the ongoing war in Afghanistan seemingly of little interest to much of the British media, journalist Joe Glenton’s new documentary is very welcome. Having served in Kandahar with the British army in 2006 before going Awol and refusing to fight in the war, Glenton returns to Afghanistan to try to uncover the truth about shadowy death squads operating in the country. Visiting Kabul and Jalalabad, he speaks to the family of victims, researchers, dissident and former MP Malalai Joya and gove...