http://www.icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx This is the syndication feed for icasualties.Org OEF Coalition Casualties News U.S. and Afghan officials are beginning a major overhaul of the Afghan police with the goal of cleaning up a force whose recent history of corruption has undermined confidence in the Afghan government and fueled the insurgency. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103148.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The State Department says that Afghan civilians continued to bear the brunt of a spike in violence in their country last year. In its annual human rights report released Thursday, the department also said the Iraqi government or its agents were reported to have committed arbitrary killings in 2009. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/11/world/main6289154.shtml Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Pfc. Jason M. Kropat, 25, of White Lake, N.Y...died March 9 in Khowst province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit using small-arms, indirect and rocket-propelled grenade fires. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13369 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sgt. Jonathan J. Richardson, 24, of Bald Knob, Ark...died March 9 in Khowst province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit using small-arms, indirect and rocket-propelled grenade fires. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13369 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Separate bomb attacks killed five Afghan civilians, including four children, and a NATO soldier in troubled parts of Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said. The soldier, whose nationality was not released, was killed when a makeshift bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security assistance Force (ISAF) said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100311/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Pakistan’s spy chief has been granted an unusual one-year extension in his job, a move that may also pave the way for a longer term for the head of the army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who is scheduled to step down this year. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/world/asia/11islamabad.html?ref=world Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan met with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani here on Thursday in a show of public friendship, with both leaders stressing that stability for their countries hinged on mutual cooperation. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/world/asia/12karzai.html?ref=world Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The men come at dawn, a ragged, anxious collection of faces peeking through scarves and hoping for work as they stand in a traffic circle beneath billboards advertising war heroes and washing machines. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-afghan-jobless11-2010mar11,0,4330089.story Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A SOLDIER given just 48 hours to live after his vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb has made a remarkable recovery. But Joe Penlington, 19, has now made the difficult decision to have his leg amputated after it became paralysed as a result of the attack. Joe also needs operations on his back, pelvis and coccyx. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2010/03/11/soldier-recovers-after-being-given-48-hours-to-live-following-afghan-blast-55578-26007345/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Pvt. Nicholas S. Cook, 19, of Hungry Horse, Mont., died March 7 in Konar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Camp Ederle, Italy. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13365 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A suicide bomber killed five members of the Afghan security forces when he drove a truck carrying explosives hidden under firewood into an Afghan military base on Wednesday, police said. http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-46805520100310?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=southAsiaNews&rpc=401 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35774774/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) with ISAF partners captured several men involved with planning suicide improvised explosive device attacks against the people of Helmand Province today. One of the men is a senior Taliban commander in Nad-e Ali district, known to have links with SIED networks and to have planned attacks against ANSF and ISAF forces. http://www.isaf.nato.int/en/article/isaf-releases/ansf-isaf-forces-capture-nad-e-ali-taliban-commander.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two afghan children were killed and two children were wounded when they were struck by a mine in Faryab Province of northern Afghanistan yesterday, according to initial reports. http://www.isaf.nato.int/en/article/isaf-releases/mine-blast-kills-injures-children-in-northern-afghanistan.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group refused to submit to extra airport screening in Washington, and they are now being hailed as heroes on their return home. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/asia/10pstan.html?ref=world Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100310/gates_afghanistan_100310/20100310?hub=World Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT THE Dutch army has been operating as part of NATO in a remote and unruly part of Afghanistan since 2006. Fighting against the Taliban has been heavy at times. Twenty-one Dutch lives have been lost, out of about 1800 men and women. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/dutch-lose-taste-for-fight-in-afghanistan/story-e6frg6zo-1225838854893 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A car bomb killed five people in Afghanistan on Wednesday...The attack killed Afghan security personnel at a security post in Paktika, the eastern province which has become a flashpoint for a Taliban insurgency now in its ninth year and which borders militant strongholds in Pakistan. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100310/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Taliban rule was a dark period for women in Afghanistan, and they want to make sure their fears are not forgotten as the new government in Kabul tries to find ways to make peace with the Taliban. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124505232 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Corporal Stephen Thompson from 1st Battalion The Rifles (1 RIFLES), serving as part of the 3 RIFLES Battle Group, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday 7 March 2010. Corporal Thompson died as a result of an explosion in an area 3km south of Sangin district centre, Helmand province. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/CorporalStephenThompsonKilledInAfghanistan.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Lance Corporal Keogh was killed by a gunshot wound during a small arms engagement in Sangin, Helmand province. He was in Patrol Base Bariolai when he was killed. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/LanceCorporalTomKeoghKilledInAfghanistan.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100309/two-nato-soldiers-killed-eastern-afghanistan.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Three police and one civilian were killed as a roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taliban militants in south Afghanistan on Tuesday. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6913905.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT A soldier serving with the British Army in Afghanistan has told of the moment he threw back a Taliban hand grenade, telling himself: "I've really only got one chance to do this." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100309/wl_nm/us_britain_grenade_1 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT To work in Zabul province these days is to feel forsaken. The Americans pulled a battalion out in December. The Afghan government promises help but sends little. Meanwhile, Taliban fighters continue to pour in. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030804916.html?hpid=topnews Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday they would soon be part of a "decisive phase" in the war -- an operation to impose control over the Taliban heartland of Kandahar province. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100309/ts_nm/us_afghanistan_usa_gates Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT