http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org OEF Coalition Casualties News the Ministry of Defence must confirm that a soldier from 36 Engineer Regiment, part of the Counter-IED Task Force, was killed in Afghanistan yesterday, Monday 8 February 2010. The soldier was killed as a result of an explosion which happened in the Nad 'Ali district of central Helmand province http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/SoldierFrom36EngineerRegimentKilledInAfghanistan.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday. The Afghan Defense Ministry released a statement saying another 70 people have been injured and transported to hospitals as the military and police continued rescue efforts to dig out those trapped in the snow. http://www.wtov9.com/news/22506442/detail.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent. Add hundreds of U.S. Marines, squads of Afghan soldiers, some Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a few private contractors, along with dozens of armored cars, mine breachers and an improvised helicopter landing zone. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHAN_WAITING_FOR_BATTLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-02-09-01-16-28 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The death of two British soldiers, reported on Monday, means that as many British troops have been killed in Afghanistan as during the war to recapture the Falklands Islands from Argentina 28 years ago. http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-45995520100208?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=southAsiaNews&rpc=401 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A police constable opened fire killing one of his colleagues and wounding four others in Afghanistan's western Herat province while explosion claimed the lives of two civilians there, officials said Monday. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6890941.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sweden's military says the gunman who killed two Swedish officers and their local interpreter in northern Afghanistan over the weekend was wearing a police uniform. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-200942-100-sweden-afghan-who-shot-3-wore-police-uniform.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT two soldiers from The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (1 SCOTS), part of the 3 RIFLES Battle Group, were killed in Afghanistan yesterday, Sunday 7 February 2010...The soldiers died as a result of an explosion near Sangin, in Helmand province, yesterday evening. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/TwoSoldiersFrom1ScotsKilledInAfghanistan.htm Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Even in a nation beset by war and suicide bombings, you would be hard-pressed to find anything as reliably terrifying as the national highway through the Kabul Gorge. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/world/asia/08road.html?hp Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Minivans piled high with mattresses and clothing lined up at checkpoints Sunday as hundreds of civilians fled a Taliban-controlled area ahead of a planned NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/02/07/general-as-afghanistan_7336760.html?boxes=Homepagetopnews Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Pakistani forces have captured a stronghold of al Qaeda-backed militants near the Afghan border after days of clashes in which 60 militants were killed, the military said. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/February/international_February366.xml&section=international&col= Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two Swedish military officers and a local interpreter were killed on Sunday when their unit came under fire west of Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan. A Swedish soldier was also injured in the attack and was taken to a field hospital located at Camp Marmal, home of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Regional Command for the north of Afghanistan... http://www.thelocal.se/24844/20100207/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in Kandahar city on Sunday, killing four policemen. The "very big bomb" was placed under a bridge and exploded as the police vehicle was passing, a senior local police official, Col Abdul Ahmad, told AFP. "Four policemen who were bringing food to their post were killed" in the blast," Col Abdul Ahmad added. http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3964&Itemid=48 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Thousands of people are leaving their homes on the Marjah plain in southern Afghanistan ahead of a massive military operation to clear Taliban militants from their last stronghold. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100207/wl_afp/afghanistanunrestusnatohelmandassault Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT At least 16 Taliban members were killed during an Afghan/NATO-led military operation in southern Afghanistan, a local official told CNN on Saturday. The operation started Friday night in Babji village of volatile Helmand province -- the region where U.S. and British forces are gearing up for a major push against militants. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/06/afghanistan.main/index.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Taliban militants blew up a girls' school on Saturday in northwest Pakistan, the latest in a wave of attacks by Islamist extremists targeting educational institutions, a minister said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100206/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwesteducation_20100206120840 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sgt. Dillon B. Foxx, 22, of Traverse City, Mich., died Feb. 5 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13292 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A FORMER Australian soldier has been jailed for nine months in the US for his role in a $US900,000 ($1.03million) Afghanistan security contract kickback scandal. http://www.smh.com.au/world/former-soldier-jailed-in-us-over-kabul-kickbacks-20100206-njwe.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Afghan border police mistook a group of villagers gathering wood near the Pakistan border as insurgents and opened fire, killing all seven of them, a police official said Saturday. All six officers involved in Friday's pre-dawn shooting have been arrested, and the incident is under investigation, said Gen. Abdul Raziq, the commander of the border police patrolling southern Afghanistan. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/06/afghan-insurg.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT