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08/27/08 AFP: German soldier killed in Afghan attack

A German soldier was killed in an attack in northern Afghanistan Wednesday that also slightly injured three other German troops, the German government said.

08/27/08 forsvaret: Den dr�bte soldat er oversergent Henrik Christian Christiansen

Oversergent Henrik Christian Christiansen...blev h�rdt s�ret, og d�de senere, da hans lastbil mandag formiddag ramte en improviseret spr�ngladning

08/27/08 forsvaret: The killed soldier is oversergent Henrik Christian Christiansen (translation)

Sergeant First Class Tim Christian Christiansen...was seriously injured and died later when his truck Monday morning struck an improvised explosive

08/27/08 dpa: Two German soldiers injured in bombing in Afghanistan

Two German soldiers were injured Wednesday in a bombing in northern Afghanistan, one critically...A remote-controlled bomb was used to attack an armoured vehicle of the German army in the district of Chardara in Kunduz province...

08/27/08 radioaustralia: Afghan officials find body of Japanese aid worker

Afghan authorities say police have found the body of a Japanese aid worker kidnapped in the east of the country on Tuesday...Mr Ito was kidnapped as he travelled to inspect an irrigation project being built by his employer...

08/27/08 Canwest : U.S. air strikes believed to have killed 90 Afghan civilians

A United Nations team has found "convincing evidence" that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in U.S.-led air strikes last week, the body's representative in Afghanistan said Tuesday.

08/27/08 Quqnoos: Bomb blast kills four policemen

A ROADSIDE bomb blast has killed at least four police officers in the central province of Ghazni, an official said. The head of the Qarabagh district said the bomb, which targeted a police vehicle, exploded on Tuesday afternoon.

08/27/08 AP: 30 suspected Taliban killed in Afghanistan

More than 30 Taliban fighters and four policemen were killed in a series of clashes, airstrikes and bombings in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.

08/26/08 AFP: Family pleads for Japanese hostage in Afghanistan

The parents of a Japanese aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan made an emotional plea on Tuesday for their son, as Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said he was "extremely concerned" for his safety.

08/26/08 AFP: Afghanistan's opium production down

Afghanistan's opium cultivation and production has dropped for the first time in three years, partly because of drought, with almost all the illegal crop coming from unrest-hit areas, the UN said Tuesday.

08/26/08 AP: Afghanistan demands review of international troops

President Hamid Karzai's government has demanded a review of the presence of U.S. and NATO troops in the country amid allegations that large numbers of civilians have died in raids and airstrikes by foreign forces in recent weeks.

08/26/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty

Staff Sgt. Brian E. Studer, 28, of Roseau, Minn., died Aug. 22 in Ghazni, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when the improvised explosive device he was attempting to deactivate detonated...

08/26/08 AFP: UN In Afghanistan Says 90 Dead From US-led Strikes

A United Nations team has found "convincing evidence" that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in US-led air strikes last week, the body's representative in Afghanistan said Tuesday.

08/26/08 AP: Afghans To Probe U.S., NATO Air Strikes

Amid allegations that large numbers of civilians have died in recent raids and air strikes by foreign forces, President Hamid Karzai's government has demanded a review of the presence of U.S. and NATO troops in the country.

08/26/08 reliefweb: Armed men kidnap Japanese national in Afghanistan

Unknown armed men abducted a Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan's relatively peaceful eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, Interior Ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari said.

08/26/08 Quqnoos: Beheaded body found in northern city

THE BEHEADED corpse of a man the Taliban accuse of spying for the government has been found in the provincial capital of Balkh, police said. Police also found a severed head in a separate part of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Monday...

08/25/08 AFP: Danish Soldier Killed In Afghanistan

A Danish soldier serving with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led forces in Afghanistan was killed Monday when his tank drove over an improvised explosive device, the Danish military said in a statement.

08/25/08 pressconnects: Painted Post soldier wounded in Afghanistan

Jonathan Ryall, a 27-year-old U.S. Army sergeant from Painted Post west of Elmira, was seriously wounded Friday as he attempted to disarm a bomb in southern Afghanistan.

08/25/08 Agencies: Gunmen attack Afghanistan-bound military supplies in Karachi

Gunmen set fire to two armoured personal carriers (APCs) headed to US forces in Afghanistan from Karachi, police said on Monday. A lorry carrying the APCs was stationed at Karachi?s port since August 18 due to a truckers? strike on fuel costs.

08/25/08 AFP: Afghanistan attack was 'legitimate' hit at Taliban

The US military said Monday that an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan last week which allegedly killed dozens of civilians was a "legitimate" assault on Taliban forces.

08/24/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty

Staff Sgt. David L. Paquet, 26, of Rising Sun, Md., died Aug. 20 at Combat Outpost Vegas, Afghanistan, of undetermined causes while conduting a patrol. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment...

08/24/08 Reuters: NATO-chartered helicopter crashes in Afghanistan

A NATO-chartered helicopter crashed on Sunday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar near the border with Pakistan, causing one death, a spokesman for the alliance said.

08/24/08 AP: 6 Taliban killed in northern Afghanistan

U.S.-led coalition troops clashed with a group of Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six militants, an Afghan provincial official said.

08/24/08 AFP: Afghan leader fires top general, says over 89 civilians killed

President Hamid Karzai fired Sunday the top army general for western Afghanistan and a commando commander after a military operation involving air strikes that he said had killed more than 89 civilians.

08/24/08 AFP: US puts up bin Laden 'wanted' posters in Afghanistan

The United States is erecting billboards in Afghanistan offering hefty rewards for Osama bin Laden, Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar and US Al-Qaeda member Adam Gadahn, the embassy said Saturday.

08/23/08 Canwest: Canadian military claims victory in major Afghan offensive

Coalition forces and the Afghan National Army say they have struck a "major blow" against insurgents operating in Afghanistan's volatile Zhari district, west of Kandahar City.

08/23/08 AFP: Afghan villagers protest against troops

Afghan villagers protested against troops on Saturday amid claims that 76 civilians, most of them children, were killed in air strikes on Taliban as the US military opened a probe into the incident.

08/23/08 AP: 30 militants killed in west Afghanistan

U.S.-led troops attacked a compound where Taliban leaders were meeting and killed 30 militants, American and Afghan military officials said Friday, but the Interior Ministry said a large number of civilians died. The U.S. said it would investigate

08/23/08 KyodoNews: 50 children among 76 killed in coalition air strikes in Afghanistan

At least 76 Afghan civilians, including 50 children, were killed Friday and scores of others were wounded in U.S-led Coalition airstrikes in western Afghanistan, the country?s Interior Ministry said Saturday...

08/23/08 Xinhua: Gunmen kill judge, his son in S Afghanistan

Gunmen killed a judge of local court and his son outside their house Saturday in Kandahar city, provincial capital of south province Kandahar, a provincial police chief said.

08/23/08 AFP: Roadside bomb kills 10 Afghan civilians

A bomb blew up a minibus outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing 10 civilians, while a judge and his son were gunned down in the same area, police said.

08/22/08 AFP: Coalition air strikes kill 76 Afghan civilians

A US-led coalition military operation in western Afghanistan on Friday killed 76 civilians, including 50 children and 19 women, the Afghan interior ministry said.

08/22/08 AFP: US skeptical of Afghan civilian deaths claim

The White House on Friday reacted skeptically to the Afghan interior ministry's charge that a US-led strike in western Afghanistan had killed 76 civilians, including 50 children and 19 women.

08/22/08 : DoD Identifies Army Casualty

Sgt. 1st Class David J. Todd Jr., 36, of Marrero, La., died Aug. 20 in Bala Morghab, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. He was assigned to the Afghan Regional Security...

08/22/08 AFP: Coalition soldier, five civilians killed in Afghanistan

A soldier with the US-led coalition died in a bomb blast in Afghanistan Friday and the Afghan defence ministry said five civilians and 25 militants were killed in clashes involving air strikes against the Taliban.

08/22/08 AFP: Five civilians, 25 rebels killed in Afghanistan

Five civilians and 25 militants were killed early Friday when Afghan and international soldiers fought with Taliban, also calling aircraft to strike the area, the Afghan army said.

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year

Year	US	Other	Total
2008	105	91	196
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	580	365	945

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	43	0	0	0	0	196

Fatalities By Country

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Country	Total
Australia	6
Canada	93
Czech	3
Denmark	16
Estonia	3
Finland	1
France	22
Germany	26
Hungary	2
Italy	12
Latvia	1
Lithuania	1
NATO	1
Netherlands	16
Norway	3
Poland	8
Portugal	2
Romania	7
South Korea	1
Spain	23
Sweden	2
UK	116
US	580
Total	945

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