militants in a house in dagestan in russia's volatile north caucasus that's according to russia's interfax news agency and the security forces say they have targeted a private house in a small village of good a bookie with the shootout still on going police saying there are three to five militants inside believed to be members of a wanted terrorist group additional forces have been mobilized to the site and dug stone has seen a number of violent attacks in recent years. afghan president hamid karzai has ordered an investigation into a nato airstrike that killed eight children on wednesday this comes a week after the united states announced it could halt combat operations in afghanistan than expected but this strike could worsen already tense relations between khan's i'm washington and the mounting civilian death toll journalist gareth porter thinks that foreign actions are to blame for the growing number of casualties this is the price that afghanistan pays for having foreign troops on its soil troops which carry out operations that are based on at best imperfect intelligence and at worse