From AP…
As of Tuesday, July 29, 2008, at least 491 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 347 [...]

From the BBC…
A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
He received a single gunshot wound while on foot patrol and was evacuated by helicopter to a medical facility, but died as a result of his injuries.
His death brings the number of UK troops killed on operations in [...]

Stupid fucks…
U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police Sunday, calling in airstrikes and fighting on the ground for four hours after both sides mistook the other for militants, Afghan officials said.
In a separate incident, NATO said it accidentally killed at least four Afghan civilians Saturday night. A NATO soldier also was killed in [...]

Run for your lives you fucking cowards.. Run…!
U.S. troops abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine of their comrades this week, officials said Wednesday, in another sign of the struggle facing foreign and Afghan security forces strung out along the mountainous border.
Elsewhere in the frontier region, NATO launched artillery and helicopter [...]

From the BBC…
Nine US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, in one of the biggest losses of life in a single incident since operations there began in 2001.
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In other great news, this time from Iraq, two US occupation soldiers who went missing Since 2007 were found [...]

From Socialist Worker…
The Afghans know it. The soldiers on the ground know it. And now the Pentagon has admitted it. The occupation in Afghanistan is in severe crisis.
Yet British ministers are still attempting to portray what has become the bloodiest month for British and coalition troops since the invasion in 2001 as a sign of [...]

From AP…
President Bush on Monday signed a $162 billion war spending plan to pay for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan until the next president takes office…
The spending bill will bring to more than $650 billion the amount Congress has provided for the Iraq war since it started more than five years ago. For operations [...]

From AP…
Militants torched a convoy carrying military supplies just south of the Afghan capital on Tuesday and killed two NATO troops in the turbulent south and east.
The attacks demonstrated the limited gains from the costly six-year effort to stabilize and bring security to Afghanistan, which is drawing in ever-larger numbers of NATO troops.
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The Canadian troops, it was revealed by, were ordered to ignore rape in Afghanistan…
Meanwhile, five NATO occupation troops in Afghanistan were killed in bombings, as the number of US military deaths rose up to 451 according to the US govt…

From AP…
A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in the country this year, officials said.
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From AP…
It’s a grim gauge of U.S. wars going in opposite directions: American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan in May passed the monthly toll in Iraq for the first time.
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AP is also reporting that…
As of Friday, June 13, 2008, at least 447 members of the [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The US army says the number of suicides among active duty troops in 2007 had reached the highest level on record, due partly to the stress caused by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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From AP…
As of Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at least 4,044 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,299 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
The AP [...]