‘Islamic’ rules of warfare on show in Afghanistan:

An Afghan couple and their daughter have been killed and two other people wounded after a rocket hit a house in Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Afghan officials said on Monday that a rocket had hit a house in the city’s Spin Kalay neighbourhood on Monday morning, killing a father, mother and young girl as they slept.

…and in Somalia:

Mortar shells slammed into Somalia’s capital, killing three civilians and at least 12 men at a home for disabled veterans, an official said Saturday. Nearly a dozen other former soldiers were wounded in the attack.

Islamic insurgents fired mortar shells Friday night toward Mogadishu’s port, but the explosives landed in residential areas, including a home for former army officers paralyzed or missing limbs from the country’s 1977 war with Ethiopia, according to a government spokesman, Sheik Abdirisaq Qeylow.