Osama bin Laden has allegedly said in a new audiotape that President Obama's Afghanistan strategy is "hopeless" and has called on the US to end the Afghanistan war and break its alliance with Israel.

The Government has been secretly sending intelligence operatives to take part in the war in Afghanistan.

A Sri Lankan reporter has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for writing articles critical of the government's military operations.

Handguns, electric drills and mock executions were used by the CIA to elicit information from terrorist suspects, reports surface.