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07/30/10 NationalPost : Some Afghan soldiers missing from U.S. base are in Canada

At least eight members of the Afghan military wanted by U.S. authorities after fleeing a Texas air force base have attained permanent resident status in Canada or are awaiting decisions on refugee claims.

07/30/10 cincinnati: Local soldier risks life to save Afghan children

In a war zone like Nangahar Province in Afghanistan, lives are more likely to be lost than saved. That is what makes what one U.S. soldier from northern Kentucky - Sgt. Rob Huff of Williamstown - and six of his fellow soldiers did Wednesday in a tiny village in the Laghman Valley so remarkable.

07/30/10 DoD: Marine Casualty Identified

Lance Cpl. Shane R. Martin, 23, of Spring, Texas, died July 29 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

07/30/10 CNN: Riots in Kabul after deadly car accident - Images

Scores of people rioted in Kabul on Friday after a vehicle carrying four U.S. contractors was involved in an accident with a car carrying four Afghans.

07/30/10 AP: Six U.S. soldiers die in deadliest month of Afghan war

NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

07/30/10 Reuters: Afghan Police Fire Shots to Quell Protest After Accident

Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident involving a U.S. embassy vehicle, police said.

07/30/10 NATO: ISAF Casualties

An ISAF servicemember died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan today. Also today two ISAF servicemembers died as a result of an improvised explosive device strike in southern Afghanistan.

07/30/10 AP: Army intelligence specialist charged with leaking Afghan war secrets sent to Va. brig

The Army intelligence specialist charged with leaking U.S. military secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to a military jail in Virginia.

07/30/10 NATO: Afghans riot in Kabul after deadly NATO crash

Scores of Afghans rioted outside the US embassy in Kabul on Friday after a NATO vehicle crashed into a civilian car killing a number of occupants, officials and witnesses said.

07/30/10 ksat: SA Marine Seriously Injured In Afghanistan

Staff Sgt. Dominic Fernandez, 31, fractured his spine and had to have a leg amputated after he was injured in a roadside bomb explosion. Fernandez is recovering in Bethesda, MD. He is graduate of Edison High School. Fernandez married his wife Claudia in 2002 and they have a young son and daughter.

07/30/10 NATO: Insurgents Kill 13 Civilians, Wound 4 in Attacks Throughout Afghanistan

Insurgents killed 13 Afghan civilians and wounded four more in attacks throughout Afghanistan yesterday. While building and repairing roads in the Ab Band district of Ghazni province, Six Afghan civilians were killed by insurgents' small-arms fire, according to Afghan officials. Three more civilians were killed and two wounded when an improvised explosive devise IED detonated on the side of a road in the Kandahar district of Kandahar province.

07/30/10 iwpr: Marja Residents Fear Taleban Resurgence

Residents of Marja, the focus of a major operation by NATO-led coalition forces earlier this year to rid the Helmand district of Taleban forces, have spoken of growing insecurity and fear the insurgents could re-establish themselves there.

07/30/10 LATimes: 3 Americans killed in Afghanistan, making July deadliest month of war for U.S.

Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

07/29/10 DoD: Navy Casualty Identified

Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, 25, of Renton, Wash., died from wounds sustained from an incident in Logar province, Afghanistan, on July 23. Coalition forces recovered his body July 28 after an extensive search. He was assigned to commander, Navy Reserve Force Command. The July 23 incident remains under investigation.

07/29/10 NYTimes: Afghanistan’s Green Zone

To those who spent time in Baghdad during 2003-2009, the phrase “Green Zone” conjures up a walled sanctuary on the Tigris, with Americans in uniforms or suits occupying gaudy Baathist palaces and only the occasional interruption of war from the city beyond.

07/29/10 Guardian: Al-Qaida 'planned 9/11 style attack on Kabul'

It may be one of the more audacious terrorist plots to be hatched in Afghanistan, but it was certainly not the most original. The same al-Qaida masterminds behind 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington planned to commit a similar attack in the capital of the country that once harboured them, according to a file among US military intelligence documents published this week by the WikiLeaks website.

07/29/10 DoD: Marine Casualty Identified

Lance Cpl. Abram L. Howard, 21, of Williamsport, Pa., died July 27 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to Headquarters and Service Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve, based out of North Versailles, Pa.

07/29/10 AP: 2nd US Sailor's Body Recovered In Afghanistan

A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday. The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information.

07/29/10 AP: Italian soldier commits suicide

Italy has about 3,300 soldiers stationed in Herat and in the capital of Kabul, part of the NATO-led ISAF security force in Afghanistan. It has suffered some 29 military deaths in Afghanistan, including the two soldiers Wednesday and the suicide of another soldier over the weekend in the capital.

07/29/10 NATO: Insurgents Kill 6 More Civilians, Wound 3 More in IED Strikes

Insurgents killed six more Afghan civilians and wounded three more in improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in southern Afghanistan yesterday.

07/29/10 NATO: Afghan Civilian Killed During ISAF Operations

Afghan and coalition forces operating in southern Afghanistan yesterday were attacked by insurgents with small arms. After indentifying the point of origin, ISAF forces returned fire with small arms and mortar rounds.

07/29/10 LATimes: Reference to missile-downed helicopter in leaked Afghanistan reports highlights a threat

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington — Wherever there are Western troops in Afghanistan, the clatter-thump of helicopter rotors serves as the soundtrack. Choppers are the workhorses of this war, with hundreds of them moving soldiers and supplies daily across a rugged landscape.

07/29/10 WaPo: For General Petraeus, battling corruption in Afghanistan is a priority

Every day, Gen. David H. Petraeus meets with senior NATO officials at headquarters for a 7:30 a.m. update, and at nearly every session, he returns to an issue that has bedeviled the U.S. campaign for years: Afghan corruption.

07/29/10 NATO: ISAF Unmanned Air Vehicle Lost

An International Security Assistance Force unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) went down in Kunduz province today. The vehicle, a Luna UAV, was remotely piloted from a ground station and contains no weapons or intelligence that could be exploited by enemy forces.

07/28/10 VeraClasse: Mauro Gigli e Pierdavide De Cillis i due militari italiani morti in Afghanistan

Due militari italiani sono rimasti uccisi ad Herat, in Afghanistan, mentre disinnescavano un ordigno esplosivo. Sono il 1° maresciallo Mauro Gigli, nato il 3 aprile 1969 a Sassari ed effettivo al 32° Reggimento Genio di Torino (Brigata Alpina Taurinense), e il caporal maggiore capo Pierdavide De Cillis, nato il 25 febbraio 1977 a Bisceglie (Bari) e appartenente al 21° Reggimento Genio di stanza a Caserta.

07/28/10 Reuters: US, Afghan soldiers patrol Kandahar (video)

U.S. and Afghan soldiers launched a security operation in two villages in Kandahar on Wednesday to better track insurgents in the region. Jon Decker reports.

07/28/10 NATO: ISAF Casualty

An ISAF servicemember died following an explosion in southern Afghanistan yesterday. It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities.

07/28/10 AP: Two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Two Italian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday moments after successfully dismantling another such makeshift device, the defense ministry said. The two, members of a specialist bomb disposal team, were killed by a roadside bomb in Herat after successfully dismantling a similar device that had been pointed out to them by Afghan police, a defense ministry statement said.

07/28/10 AP: US Braces for Blowback Over Afghan War Disclosures

Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the U.S. against the Taliban or al-Qaida may be at risk following the disclosure of thousands of once-secret U.S. military documents, former and current officials said.

07/28/10 dpa: Flash floods kill 31 in northern Afghanistan

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed 31 people while five others were missing in northern Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

07/28/10 MoD: Sapper Mark Antony Smith killed in Afghanistan

the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Sapper Mark Antony Smith, from 36 Engineer Regiment, serving with the Counter-IED Task Force, was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, 26 July 2010. On 26 July 2010 Sapper Smith and his Search team deployed in support of 40 Commando Royal Marines Battlegroup, Combined Force Sangin.

07/28/10 LATimes: Pakistan plane crash kills all 152 aboard

A Pakistani passenger jet slammed into a forested ridge outside Islamabad on Wednesday, killing all 152 people aboard in what is believed to be the worst commercial aviation disaster in Pakistan's history.

07/28/10 LATimes: Blast kills 25 on bus in southern Afghanistan

A bomb blast tore through a crowded passenger bus on a desert highway in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 of those on board and injuring about 20 others, some seriously, government officials said. All were described as civilians.

07/28/10 Newsweek: Afghans on the grid could have helped build peace, but the Americans couldn’t quite deliver.

That the United States has been unable to deliver this basic utility is a failure with truly far-reaching consequences—an early and enduring proof of superpower impotence. The expectations of the people in Afghanistan in 2001 and in Iraq in 2003, whatever other misgivings they may have had about the U.S.-led invasions of their countries...

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year

Year	US	UK	Other	Total
2001	12	0	0	12
2002	49	3	17	69
2003	48	0	9	57
2004	52	1	7	60
2005	99	1	31	131
2006	98	39	54	191
2007	117	42	73	232
2008	155	51	89	295
2009	317	108	96	521
2010	268	80	63	411
Total	1215	325	439	1979

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U.S. Fatalities in and around Afghanistan

Country of Death	Fatalities
Afghanistan	1083
Germany (from wounds in theatre)	18
Pakistan	15
USA (from wounds in theatre)	21
Uzbekistan	1
Total	1138

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IED Fatalities

Period	IED	Total	Pct
2001	0	4	0.00
2002	4	25	16.00
2003	3	26	11.54
2004	12	27	44.44
2005	20	73	27.40
2006	41	130	31.54
2007	78	184	42.39
2008	152	263	57.79
2009	275	451	60.98
2010	215	369	58.27

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year and Month

CoalitionU.S.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2001	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	4	12
2002	10	12	14	10	1	3	0	3	1	6	1	8	69
2003	4	7	12	2	2	7	2	4	2	6	8	1	57
2004	11	2	3	3	9	5	2	4	4	8	7	2	60
2005	2	3	6	19	4	29	2	33	12	10	7	4	131
2006	1	17	13	5	17	22	19	29	38	17	9	4	191
2007	2	18	10	20	25	24	29	34	24	15	22	9	232
2008	14	7	20	14	23	46	30	46	37	19	12	27	295
2009	25	25	28	14	27	38	76	77	70	74	32	35	521
2010	43	53	39	34	51	102	89	0	0	0	0	0	411

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Fatalities By Country

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Country	Total
Australia	17
Belgium	1
Canada	151
Czech	3
Denmark	34
Estonia	7
Finland	1
France	45
Germany	42
Hungary	2
Italy	27
Jordan	1
Latvia	3
Lithuania	1
Netherlands	24
Norway	9
Poland	19
Portugal	2
Romania	15
South Korea	1
Spain	28
Sweden	4
Turkey	2
UK	325
US	1215
Total	1979

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Fatalities by Province

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