Almudena Toral

Jan 21, 2025 | propublica.org | Mauricio Rodríguez Pons |Almudena Toral |Lynzy Billing

Skip to main content Close Close Creative Commons Donate Email Add Email Facebook Instagram Mastodon Facebook Messenger Mobile Podcast Print ProPublica Search Secure WhatsApp YouTube “The Night Doctrine”: The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids In this triple-Emmy-winning short, British journalist Lynzy Billing returns to her native Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to uncover a secretive U.S.-backed program that left hundreds of civilians dead....

Nov 3, 2023 | newyorker.com | Mauricio Rodríguez Pons |Almudena Toral |Lynzy Billing

Our chance encounter spurred me to begin investigating the units that had killed her sons. I learnt that the raid on Mahzala’s home, along with hundreds of others like it, had been conducted by élite squads of U.S.-backed Afghan Special Forces units, called the Zero units. I found that a disturbing number of the raids appeared to have relied on faulty intelligence or misidentified targets provided by America’s intelligence-gathering apparatus. This film is presented in partnership with ProPublica.