http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org OEF Coalition Casualties News 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 Gunnery Sgt. Robert L. Gilbert II, 28, of Richfield, Ohio, died March 16 of wounds sustained March 8 while supporting combat operations in Badghis province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Marine Special Operations Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, N.C. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13389 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Lance Corporal Scott Hardy and Private James Grigg, both from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday 16 March 2010. They were killed, while serving as part of the Household Cavalry Regiment Battle Group, as a result of an explosion which occurred in an area approximately 20km north of Musa Qal'ah district centre, Helmand province. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/LanceCorporalScottHardyAndPrivateJamesGriggKilledInAfghanistan.htm Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The NATO military alliance is planning a large-scale offensive in northern Afghanistan this year against Taliban insurgents, a senior German general was quoted as saying on Thursday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100318/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnatomilitarygermany Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Rich countries are canceling more than $1 billion in debt that Afghanistan owes them, the Paris Club of creditor nations announced Wednesday. The debt relief comes partly in response to Afghanistan's participating in program for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, the Paris Club said in a statement... http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/more-than-1b-in-afghanistan-debt-cancelled/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031702558.html?hpid=topnews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A strike by an unmanned drone last week killed a senior commander of Al Qaeda who had played a significant role in planning the killing of Central Intelligence Agency operatives in late December at a base in Afghanistan, according to American officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/world/asia/18terror.html?hp Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT An international aid agency is rejecting the NATO secretary-general's call for non-government organisations (NGOs) to work alongside military forces in Afghanistan. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/18/2849955.htm?section=justin Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Governance in Kandahar was pushed to the brink by Taliban bombs and assassinations last spring, an onslaught that at one point saw provincial council members temporarily abandoning the region, newly released documents reveal. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/afghanistan/article/781496--taliban-came-close-to-retaking-kandahar Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A month after losing control of its southern base in Marjah, the Taliban has begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies. http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2010/03/18/taliban-fighting-for-afghan-city.html?sid=101 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Taliban fighters more than doubled the number of homemade bombs they used against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan last year, relying on explosives that are often far more primitive than the ones used in Iraq. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031703649.html Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Marine Corps' investigation of the February death of an Indiana Marine in Afghanistan concludes that he was fatally shot when an Afghan security contractor fired shots at a group of Marines...24-year-old Lance Cpl. Joshua Birchfield of Westville was shot Feb. 19 when a security contractor working for a local company opened fire on a squad of Marines who had stopped in a dry riverbed during a combat foot patrol. http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100317/NEWS02/3170341/1025/Report++Afghan+contractor+shot+Indiana+Marine Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Taliban have begun waging a campaign of intimidation in Marjathat some local Afghan leaders worry has jeopardized the success of an American-led offensive there meant as an early test of a revised military approach in Afghanistan. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/world/asia/18afghan.html?hp Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Captain Martin Driver from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment died in Selly Oak Hospital on Monday 15 March 2010 from wounds sustained in Afghanistan. Captain Driver died at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital as a result of wounds sustained in an explosion which occurred in the Musa Qal'ah district of Helmand province on the morning of 21 February 2010. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/CaptainMartinDriverDiesInSellyOakFromWoundsSustainedInAfghanistan.htm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A major threat to NATO forces in Afghanistan comes from IEDs or improvised explosive devices. One way British forces are combating the threat is with dogs trained to detect explosives. It's a program cloaked in secrecy with officials refusing to give details on how the dogs are trained. Recently one top dog was awarded a top military prize for his valor. http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Britain-Combats-Bomb-Threats-in-Afghanistan-87777752.html Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A major reorganization of allied forces in Afghanistan will centralize both American and other foreign troops under the direct command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior U.S. and NATO commander in the theater. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/17/world/main6307408.shtml Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two would-be suicide attackers, dressed as women, stormed a relief agency in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday and were killed by police before they could detonate their explosives. http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/suicide-attackers-dressed-as-women-killed-by-police/?hpt=T2 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Back-to-back drone strikes in Pakistan's northwest tribal region on Wednesday morning killed five suspected militants, officials said. The first attack drones fired five missiles at two vehicles in Hamzoni, a village eight miles (15 km) west of Miran Shah in North Waziristan, a local government official and an intelligence official said. Three suspected militants were killed and three others were injured. http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/drone-strikes-kill-5-suspected-militants-in-pakistan/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Dozens of armed militants attacked a joint police and military checkpoint in Pakistan's troubled northwest early Wednesday, killing five security personnel, police said. Three soldiers and two police officers were killed, and another security personnel member was injured, said Muhammad Karim Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar. http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/militants-kill-5-security-personnel-in-pakistan/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT FIVE Australian soldiers have been wounded, three of them seriously, after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The Department of Defence said all five were conscious and had been in contact with their families. Some were expected to return to Australia within days for rehabilitation. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/diggers-hit-by-afghan-bomb/story-e6frg8yo-1225842070183 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Would-be suicide attackers hit at least two locations in a southern Afghanistan city and a gunbattle was ongoing Wednesday morning, an official said. The attacks in Lashkar Gah targeted a government office and a charity that help farmers, said Dawood Ahmadi, spokesman for the government in Helmand province. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/16/police-battle-gunmen-in-southern-afghan-town/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT U.S. military officials are preparing to attempt to take control of Kandahar away from the Taliban later this year. Two young Western residents of the city, Felix Kuehn and Alex Strick van Linschoten, describe what it's like to live and work under Taliban rule. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124465648&ft=1&f=1032 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Roughly 2,000 contractors are working to train the Afghan army, about the same as the number of military personnel doing the job, according to a senior U.S. military official, who cited a shortage of available service members. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/16/AR2010031603830.html Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHAN_FEAR_CAMPAIGN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-17-12-33-56 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT two soldiers from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, part of the Household Cavalry Regiment Battle Group, were killed in Afghanistan yesterday, Tuesday 16 March 2010. The soldiers were killed as a result of an explosion which occurred in an area approximately 20km north of Musa Qal'ah district centre, Helmand province, yesterday afternoon. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/2SoldiersFromTheRoyalAnglianRegimentKilledInHelmand.htm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT At least 35 people were killed Wednesday in a fiery collision between a bus and a truck on a treacherous pass in northern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100317/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestcrash_20100317094521 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two suicide attackers dressed in burqas were shot dead Wednesday as they attempted to enter the compound of a US-linked aid organisation in a southern Afghan town, officials said. http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6946460/burqa-suicide-bombers-killed-in-afghan-town-govt/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT