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08/19/08 MoD: Corporal Barry Dempsey killed in Afghanistan

It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Corporal Barry Dempsey from The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, who was killed in Afghanistan on Monday 18 August 2008.

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty

Pfc. Jonathan L. Luscher, 20, of Scranton, Pa., died Aug. 17 at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry...

08/19/08 WaPo: Bomb in Pakistan Kills at Least 26 People

As Pakistan's coalition government got off to a new start a day after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, political disagreements and a bomb that killed at least 26 people Tuesday in the country's volatile northwest underscored...

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualties (2 of 2)

Pfc. Paul E. Conlon Jr., 21, of Somerville, Mass...died Aug. 15 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then received small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire.

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualties (1 of 2)

1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile, 29, of Oxford, Va...died Aug. 15 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device and then received small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire.

08/19/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty

Staff Sgt. Kristopher D. Rodgers, 29, of Sturgis, Mich., died Aug. 16 in Korengal, Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team...

08/19/08 Reuters: Sarkozy to fly to Afghanistan after French deaths

President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly to Afghanistan on Tuesday after 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in a clash with Taliban insurgents, and he declared France remained committed to its mission there.

08/19/08 AAP: Aussie troops kill Taliban commander

AUSTRALIAN special forces soldiers have killed a senior Taliban commander responsible for co-ordinating attacks on government facilities in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province.

08/19/08 independent: The Afghan women jailed for being victims of rape

In Lashkar Gah, the majority of female prisoners are serving 20-year sentences for being forced to have sex. Terri Judd visited them and heard their extraordinary stories

08/19/08 AP: Afghan president will run for office again

The president of Afghanistan says he will seek re-election next year. Hamid Karzai tells The Associated Press he has yet to finish the job he began four years ago as Afghanistan's first freely elected president after nearly 30 years of war.

08/19/08 leparisien: 10 soldats fran�ais tu�s et 21 bless�s en Afghanistan

Dix soldats fran�ais de la force de l'Otan en Afghanistan ont �t� tu�s lundi et mardi lors d'un engagement avec les talibans, � une cinquantaine de kilom�tres � l'est de la capitale Kaboul, a-t-on appris mardi de source proche de l'Elys�e.

08/19/08 dailyexpress: 10 FRENCH TROOPS DIE IN AFGHANISTAN

Ten French soldiers have been killed fighting Taliban forces outside Kabul.Four of them were executed after being taken hostage during the two-day battle in the Surobi district 30 miles from the capital.

08/19/08 AP: Suicide bombers attack US base in Afghanistan

A team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack on a major American installation, officials said Tuesday.

08/18/08 CSMonitor: Afghan officials clamp down on the press

Government agencies are intimidating and arresting journalists. The crackdown marks the decline of a hard-won, post-Taliban-era achievement: press freedom.

08/18/08 NYTimes: Blast Kills 12 at U.S. Base on a Holiday for Afghans

A suicide bomber drove a car into a crowd of workers at the gates of a United States military base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 workers and wounding 22 others, Afghan officials said. The bomber failed to penetrate the base...

08/18/08 CSMonitor: Jihadis shift attention to war in Afghanistan

In the wake of setbacks suffered by Al Qaeda in Iraq, Afghanistan is becoming the preferred destination for Muslims, particularly from Arab nations, seeking to wage jihad against the West.

08/18/08 AFP: Suicide attack kills nine in Afghanistan

A suicide car bomb blew up Monday outside a US military base in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine civilian labourers, as the country marked Independence Day under the shadow of extremist attacks.

08/18/08 BBC: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

It's nearly 20 years since the former Soviet Union began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Are you from the former Soviet Union or from Afghanistan? What are you memories of this period?

08/18/08 AP: Afghanistan happy with Musharraf's resignation

The U.S.-backed Afghan government welcomed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday, saying he "was not someone good for Afghanistan" and his departure will have a positive effect on the region.

08/18/08 MoD: Soldier from Royal Regiment of Scotland killed in Helmand

It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that a soldier from 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, attached to 1st Battalion the Royal Irish Regiment, was killed in Afghanistan today, Monday 18 August 2008.

08/18/08 : DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (2 of 2)

Lance Cpl. Juan Lopez-Castaneda, 19, of Mesa, Ariz... assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division... Twentynine Palms, Calif...died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province

08/18/08 : DoD Identifies Marine Casualties (1 of 2)

Cpl. Anthony G. Mihalo, 23, of Naperville, Ill... assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division... Twentynine Palms, Calif...died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province

08/18/08 : DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

Lance Cpl. Jacob J. Toves, 27, of Grover Beach, Calif., died Aug. 14 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force...

08/17/08 AFP: Ten policemen killed in Afghanistan bombing

A roadside bomb hit a police jeep in southern Afghanistan and killed 10 officers, as a soldier and 19 hardline Taliban rebels died in other violence, officials said Sunday.

08/17/08 AP: 88 die in Afghan violence; police deploy in Kabul

Scores of police manned checkpoints around Afghanistan's capital Sunday after authorities ordered more than 7,000 officers to secure Kabul ahead of the country's Independence Day, an indication of how militants pose a growing threat to the capital.

08/16/08 AP: Worsening security affecting Afghan aid groups

Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that lost four workers in a Taliban attack said Saturday.

08/16/08 AFP: Bomb hits Afghan minister's convoy, one hurt: ministry

A bomb struck the convoy of Afghanistan's education minister on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday, with initial reports that one passer-by was wounded, a ministry spokesman said.

08/16/08 Reuters: Over 60 insurgents killed in Afghanistan

Afghan and US-led coalition forces have killed more than 60 militants during several days of fighting in the south of the country this week, the US military and the Afghan Interior Ministry said.

08/16/08 Quqnoos: Thousands face starvation, MPs warn

SEVERE hunger threatens to kill more than three-quarters of people living in the northern province of Badghis, officials in the region say.

08/16/08 AFP: Two Iranians Believed Kidnapped In Afghanistan -

Two Iranian nationals missing in western Afghanistan for several days are believed to have been kidnapped, Afghan officials said Saturday.

08/15/08 AFP: UN rights expert denounces Taliban attacks on educators

The Taliban's "systematic" targetting of educators in Afghanistan must not go unpunished, said the United Nations expert on education in a strongly worded statement Friday.

08/15/08 AP: 2 Taliban militants bitten by US coalition dogs

U.S. coalition dogs bit two fleeing suspected Taliban militants during an operation in eastern Afghanistan in which a total of eight insurgents were detained, the coalition said Friday.

08/15/08 BBC: Afghanistan death 'friendly fire'

The death of a Royal Marine Commando in Afghanistan was likely to have been a so-called friendly fire incident, a Board of Inquiry report has said. L/Cpl Mathew Ford...died in an advance on a Taleban fort in Helmand on 15 January last year.

08/15/08 dpa: Taliban insurgents capture district, 4 Afghan police killed

Taliban militants overran a district in southern Afghanistan Friday after four policemen were killed in a blast in the same region, officials said.

08/15/08 AFP: 460 militants, 22 troops killed near Afghan border

Pakistan's interior ministry chief said on Friday that over 460 Islamic militants and 22 soldiers have been killed in more than a week of fighting in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan.

08/15/08 CBCNews: Controversial Kandahar governor replaced

The controversial governor of Kandahar, who former Canadian foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier once suggested should be replaced, has been removed from his post, the Afghanistan government announced Friday

08/15/08 Reuters: Two soldiers from NATO force killed in Afghanistan

Insurgents killed two soldiers from NATO-led forces in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

08/14/08 NYTimes: Insurgency?s Scars Line Afghanistan?s Main Road

Not far from here, just off the highway that was once the showpiece of the United States reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, three American soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were ambushed and killed seven weeks ago.

08/14/08 AFP: Three international soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Three US-led coalition soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the force said, taking to 17 the number of international troops to die in the country this month.

08/14/08 AFP: Rockets fired at Kabul airport

Two rockets were fired at Afghanistan's main international airport in Kabul on Thursday, injuring two civilians but causing little damage, the interior ministry said.

08/14/08 vancouversun: B.C. aid worker shot dead near kabul

Shirley Case, one of three female aid workers slain in a "senseless, heinous attack" in Afghanistan Wednesday, was a small-town B.C. girl who wanted to help the world.

08/14/08 newsday: Afghan gunmen kill Trincity aid worker

Nicole Dial, a 30-year-old Trinidadian rescue worker, was killed yesterday morning when the vehicle in which she was travelling was ambushed in Logar Province, Afghanistan.

08/14/08 Reuters: NATO denies Afghan civilian casualty report

The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has denied reports it killed more than a dozen civilians in an air strike to the northeast of the capital. Twelve civilians were killed and 18 wounded when NATO-led forces carried out an airstrike..

08/14/08 MoD: Signaller Wayne Bland from 16 Signal Regiment killed in Afghanistan

It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Signaller Wayne Bland, from 16 Signal Regiment, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday 11 August 2008.

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year

Year	US	Other	Total
2008	103	82	185
2007	117	115	232
2006	98	93	191
2005	99	31	130
2004	52	6	58
2003	48	9	57
2002	49	20	69
2001	12	0	12
Total	578	356	934

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year and Month

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	3	4	8	7	1	58
2005	2	2	6	19	4	29	2	33	12	10	7	4	130
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	19	14	24	45	30	32	0	0	0	0	185

Fatalities By Country

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Country	Total
Australia	6
Canada	90
Czech	3
Denmark	15
Estonia	3
Finland	1
France	22
Germany	25
Hungary	2
Italy	12
Latvia	1
Lithuania	1
Netherlands	16
Norway	3
Poland	5
Portugal	2
Romania	7
South Korea	1
Spain	23
Sweden	2
UK	116
US	578
Total	934

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