http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org OEF Coalition Casualties News The Canadian government was fending off calls for a public inquiry on torture today after allegations from one of its senior diplomats that Canada was complicit in the torture of Afghan detainees. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/20/canada-allegations-complicit-torture-afghanistan Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The conflict in Afghanistan dominates headlines, but many people seek a deeper understanding of the country and the war the U.S. is fighting there. In the first of a series of suggestions for an Afghanistan "reading list," Washington Post special military correspondent Tom Ricks shares his recommendations. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120576400 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A suicide bomber in southwestern Afghanistan killed 17 people Friday, and an Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul but five of his bodyguards were killed, officials said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_blast Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said. Provincial Gov. Rohul Amin said the blast occurred about 55 yards from his compound in a crowded square in Farah. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120605006 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghan police say Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a parliamentarian and powerful former warlord, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_violence Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Spc. Joseph M. Lewis, 26, of Terrell, Texas died on Nov. 17 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13136 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Sergeant Loughran-Dickson died as a result of gunshot wounds sustained whilst taking part in a routine patrol in the vicinity of Patrol Base Wahid, in Nad-e-Ali District, Helmand Province. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/SergeantRobertLoughrandicksonRmpKilledInAfghanistan.htm Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Germany, the third largest contributor to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, on Thursday held out the possibility of sending more troops to the stalled, eight-year-old war after a review early next year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/wl_nm/us_germany_afghanistan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT NATO says two U.S. service members have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Todd Vician says the two were killed by a bomb explosion in Zabul province late Thursday morning. He did not have any further details http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/19/world/main5708146.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsMain+(Breaking+News%3A+CBSNews.com) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT At least 10 Afghan civilians were killed as a suicide bomber attacked a market area in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday. The explosion took place in Deh Rahod district of the country's southern province of Uruzgan. http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2041488&Language=en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Tainted by a flawed election and allegations of high-level corruption in his regime, President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated Thursday for a second term, saying the Afghan Army should assume full control of the country’s security within five years. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/world/asia/20afghan.html?_r=1&hp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Sgt Harmer left Fort Blockhouse in September with colleagues from 33 Field Hospital for a six-month tour of Helmand. He was working as a combat medical technician with a platoon when he suffered the injuries on Monday, October 26. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/gosport/Newlywed-soldier-loses-legs-in.5839090.jp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghan President Hamid Karzai, battling to rebuild a tarnished reputation, was sworn into office for a second term on Thursday as he faces renewed criticism from Washington over corruption. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Factbox+facts+figures+Afghanistan/2240775/story.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT ...A soldier from the Royal Military Police (RMP) in Afghanistan today. The soldier was killed as a result of small arms fire in the Babaji area of central Helmand province, during the morning of 18 November 2009. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/RmpSoldierKilledInAfghanistanOn18November.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Holly Greer Dietlin, the wife of 21-year-old Marine Cpl. Daniel Jacob Dietlin, told The Times-Tribune of Corbin that her husband underwent emergency surgery for severe head injuries after a vehicle accident Nov. 12 during night patrols. Holly Dietlin says the worst injuries include a fractured skull and multiple brain contusions. http://www.wlky.com/news/21655735/detail.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Sgt. Brandon T. Islip, 23, of Richmond, Va., has been unaccounted for since Nov. 4 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, when he went missing while involved in a resupply mission. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13132 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Sgt. Benjamin W. Sherman, 21, of Plymouth, Mass., has been identified as having been killed while participating in the Nov. 4 resupply mission. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13132 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghans have a name for the huge, gaudy mansions that have sprung up in Kabul's wealthy Sherpur neighborhood since 2001. They call them "poppy palaces." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-corruption18-2009nov18,0,4729069.story Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT A toy car booby-trapped with explosives, chemistry textbooks and handwritten case files from a Taliban court were among the debris left behind by fleeing Islamist militants in this remote village in the conflicted tribal region of South Waziristan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111701647.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a U.S. official who is familiar with military intelligence reports. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111704198.html?hpid=topnews Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT This windswept, sand-colored town in the badlands of western Pakistan is empty now, cleared of the militants who once claimed it as their capital. But its main brick buildings, intact and thick with dust, tell not of an epic battle, but of sudden flight. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/asia/18pstan.html?ref=world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The government of Chancellor Angela Merkel resolved Wednesday to extend for one year Germany’s deployment of troops in the American-lead coalition in Afghanistan, a government official said, but the number of troops will stay the same. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/world/europe/19germany.html?_r=1&ref=global-home Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Afghan and international troops have killed more than 30 Taliban in a ground-air operation in southeastern zone of the country. The operation was conducted just a day before the oath-taking of President Hamid Karzai for his second term in office for which security has already been beefed up in and around the central capital Kabul. http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2041148&Language=en Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT