This report into the fatal shooting of an Afghan journalist by a US soldier raises critical questions about the safety of local reporters working in the field, and argues that greater honesty is needed by coalition forces when operations go wrong. Omaid Khpulwak was killed at his place of work, the RTA building in Tirin...

This paper examines capture-or-kill operations in Afghanistan based on an analysis of all Inertnational Security Assistance Force (ISAF) press releases over the last 22 months. ISAF officials have long presented the capture‐or‐kill operations as one of the most effective parts of the military mission in Afghanistan. They regularly release large figures describing the number of...