WASHINGTON — Shaker Aamer has spent more than a decade imprisoned without charges in Guantanamo Bay. But America's war in Afghanistan is ending, shifting the fight against Al Qaeda beyond the traditional battlefield. That raises new questions about a gamut of Washington’s controversial actions committed in the war’s name — from drone bombings to locking up terror suspects, like Aamer, indefinitely at Guantanamo.

KABUL — The nightmare scenario of NATO leaving Afghanistan to face a new period of ethnic violence and civil conflict has already become a reality in the southern province of Uruzgan. There a militia commanded by a man named Abdul Hakim Shujaee is accused of deliberately destroying houses, raping women and murdering dozens of civilians. The government has ordered his arrest, but he remains free.