According to the website iCasualties.org, which tracks U.S. troop deaths and injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of troops killed in connection with the Afghanistan war now exceeds 1,500. Here are the names of the U.S. troops that have been killed since the death of Osama bin Laden: Kirton, Brandon M. Pressley, Cheziray Tucker, [...]

This story has been updated NEW YORK — It was a busy day in Afghanistan: a U.S. airstrike killed at least three people yesterday, including a leader of the Haqqani terrorist network and two other militants in Khost province, according to the Pentagon. The men were attacked after troops observed several insurgents planting roadside bombs [...]

Americans of all ideological persuasions are fed up with the Afghanistan War. We’re fed up with a $5.7 billion-per-month military campaign that’s gone nowhere over the past 12 months. We’re fed up with being told we’ll have to do without vital public services because of the sorry state of our national finances, while at the [...]

Taliban insurgents launched attacks in Kabul and a major northern city on Sunday as the 2010 death toll for foreign troops climbed to 700, nearly a third of the total killed in nearly a decade of war. Read more: Afghanistan Death Toll, Afghanistan Foreign Troop Death Toll, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Troop Deaths, World News

Crossposted with TomDispatch.com. America’s heroes?  Not so much.  Not anymore.  Not when they’re dead, anyway.  Remember as the invasion of Iraq was about to begin, when the Bush administration decided to seriously enforce a Pentagon ban, in existence since the first Gulf War, on media coverage and images of the American dead arriving home at [...]

WASHINGTON — The military’s new armored Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in Afghanistan are significantly reducing troop deaths in roadside attacks at a time when insurgent bombings are at record levels, according to statistics provided to USA TODAY. Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News Veterans News

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. How are we going to deal with Pakistan when they’re openly flaunting their proxy war against the United States? How should we respond [...]