Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its World Report 2020 said that attacks by all parties to Afghanistan’s armed conflict in 2019 took a "devastating toll" on civilians.

The report said that for the first time the deaths caused by the Afghan government and United States operations exceeded those caused by the Taliban in the first half of 2019, largely due to a sharp increase in US airstrikes.

In this program host Karim Amini discusses the topic with the following guests:

Lal Gull Lal, head of Afghanistan`s human right commission

Rohullah Ahmadzai, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense