http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org OEF Coalition Casualties News 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. http://www.financialpost.com/news/Some+Afghan+soldiers+missing+from+base+Canada/3343709/story.html Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100730/NEWS01/7310330/Local-soldier-risks-life-to-save-Afghan-children Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13769 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/30/riots-in-kabul-after-deadly-car-accident/?hpt=Sbin Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100730/deadliest-month-100730/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=11288106 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/isaf-casualties-138.html Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.courant.com/news/politics/sns-ap-us-afghanistan-wikileaks-manning,0,2374808.story Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100730/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestaccidentriot Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.ksat.com/news/24448323/detail.html Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/insurgents-kill-13-civilians-wound-4-in-attacks-throughout-afghanistan.html Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/marja-residents-fear-taleban-resurgence Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-afghanistan-record-deaths-20100731,0,3020370.story Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13764 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/afghanistans-green-zone/?ref=asia Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/29/al-qaida-9-11-attack-kabul Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13761 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.kcra.com/news/24433059/detail.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.metronews.ca/calgary/world/article/588869--italy-2-italian-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Insurgents killed six more Afghan civilians and wounded three more in improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in southern Afghanistan yesterday. http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/insurgents-kill-6-more-civilians-wound-3-more-in-ied-strikes.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/afghan-civilian-killed-during-isaf-operations.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/28/world/la-fg-afghan-missiles-20100729 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072805683.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/isaf-unmanned-air-vehicle-lost.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.vip.it/mauro-gigli-pierdavide-de-cillis-morti-a-herat/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?rpc=401&videoId=127082229&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=LatestVideosUK&rpc=401&videoChannel=75 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/isaf-casualty-304.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100728/world/eu_italy_afghanistan Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=11264380 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed 31 people while five others were missing in northern Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Wednesday. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1573823.php/Flash-floods-kill-31-in-northern-Afghanistan Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/SapperMarkAntonySmithKilledInAfghanistan.htm Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-0728-pakistan-crash-20100728,0,7159422.story Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-afghan-bus-bomb-20100729,0,6697404.story Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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... http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/28/power-and-light.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT