http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org OEF Coalition Casualties News Six billion dollars later, the Afghan National Police can't begin to do their jobs right—never mind relieve American forces. http://www.newsweek.com/id/235221/page/1 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Air strikes killed 15 Taliban in restive Pakistani northwestern tribal areas on Sunday, where militants beheaded three tribesmen accusing them of spying for the United States. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100321/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrest_20100321160530 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Afghanistan's hard-line vice president expressed hope Sunday that an upcoming national conference will lay the foundation for peace with insurgents as a dozen civilians died in separate bombings in front-line provinces http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032100252.html Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive tribal area Sunday beheaded three men they accused of spying for US forces stationed across the border in Afghanistan, police said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100321/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanafghanistanunrestspy_20100321070832 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A suicide bomber has killed 10 civilians after detonating his explosives near a crowd in southern Afghanistan, while a roadside bomb in the country's east killed two others, officials said. In the first incident, a suicide bomber driving a three-wheeled rickshaw detonated his explosives near a picnic for the Afghan New Year in Gereshk district of Helmand province, the provincial governor's spokesman said. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/21/2852024.htm?section=justin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marja has put American and NATO commanders in the unusual position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/world/asia/21marja.html?hp Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sgt. Joel D. Clarkson, a 23-year-old Alaska native, died Wednesday. The Pentagon has not officially made the announcement, but Clarkson's mother, Karen Williams-Clarkson, alerted friends to her son's death in a posting on a Facebook page set up after Clarkson was shot during a patrol in southern Afghanistan. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011396569_soldier20m.html Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The former top United Nations official in Afghanistan said that recent arrests of high-ranking Taliban figures by Pakistan had severed important secret communications between the Taliban and the West meant to foster peace negotiations. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/asia/20afghan.html?ref=world Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The tribal elders had traveled many hours to reach a windswept Afghan military base on the capital’s outskirts to sign their names to a piece of paper allowing them to bring their countrymen home from American detention. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/asia/20kabul.html?ref=world Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT An Afghan soldier was killed as a roadside bomb struck a military vehicle in Paktia province on Friday, a press release of Defense Ministry issued here Saturday said. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6925462.html Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT An injured Australian soldier continued fighting in southern Afghanistan for two days before he sought help, because he didn't want to let his mates down. The latest casualty occurred on Tuesday from an improvised explosive device detonated by suspected Taliban insurgents. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1218712/Injured-digger-in-Afghanistan-fought-on Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Australian defence department has revealed that a sixth Australian soldier was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan this week. The defence department says the six Australians were travelling in a Bushmaster vehicle in the Chora Valley when it was hit by an improvised explosive device on Tuesday. http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201003/2851497.htm?= Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Police arrested three Taliban militants Saturday and seized a bomb-making factory in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, a counterterrorism official said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_3 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The tribal elders had traveled many hours to reach a windswept Afghan military base on the capital’s outskirts to sign their names to a piece of paper allowing them to bring their countrymen home from American detention. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/world/asia/20kabul.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A Virginia Beach Navy SEAL was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday during a battle with heavily armed militants, the Navy confirmed Friday afternoon. The Navy said that Chief Special Warfare Operator Adam Lee Brown, who lived with his wife and two children in Virginia Beach, died from his injuries Thursday. Originally from Hot Springs, Ark., the 36-year-old enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1998 and joined the Navy SEALs in 2001. http://www.dailypress.com/news/southside/dp-local_navyseal_0320mar20,0,1600774.story Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Former UN special representative to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, accused Pakistan on Friday of arresting key Taliban leaders in a deliberate move to stop secret peace talks, in a BBC interview. Eide, who stepped down from the post earlier this month, confirmed for the first time that he held talks with senior Taliban figures but said that these had ended when Pakistan made a series of high-profile arrests. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100319/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanpakistanunrestuneide_20100319020953 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT For most of the past eight years, this northern province has been relatively peaceful, far removed from the insurgency in the Taliban heartlands of Kandahar and Helmand in the south. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/18/AR2010031805399.html Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned television and barred women from appearing in public without an all-enveloping burqa, the Afghan government is fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off TV. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100319/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_pixilation Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Attacks on U.S. and allied forces with makeshift bombs in Afghanistan are 50% more lethal than three years ago, reflecting insurgents' use of more powerful explosives and the increased vulnerability of troops who patrol more on foot than in the past. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-03-19-ieds_N.htm Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The leaves have returned to the trees along the banks of the Arghandab River, and row after row of grape vines and pomegranate trees have received their first irrigation floods of the year. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/afghanistan/2010-03-19-afghanistan_N.htm Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Residents, friends and family are mourning the death of Marine Gunnery Sgt. Robert L. Gilbert II, who died Tuesday evening after being shot about a week earlier in Afghanistan. Gilbert died on his 28th birthday in a hospital in Bethesda, Md., with his family at his bedside. He is a 2000 graduate of Revere High School, and has been a Marine the past 10 years. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/03/post_249.html Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT