One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, lost his or her life during a rocket attack today in Basra.
U.S. Fatalities Cross the 1,000 Mark In Afghanistan
With the death of an unnamed servicemember in a roadside bomb attack today, the number of U.S. dead in Afghanistan has crossed the 1,000 mark. The Associated Press announced the figure it culled from its own count. Using different counting methods, Icasualties.org...
Counting Afghanistan Casualties…Through 15 Other Countries
Although several news outlets spent the day barking about the Afghanistan death toll crossing the 1,000 mark, the truth is that casualty counting is a little more complicated. Icasualties.org is where the media are grabbing that 1,000 figure. The Web site does report...
Iraq Troop Deaths Under Obama Reach The Century Mark
The number of U.S. troops who have died while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom since President Obama’s inauguration has now reached 100. This figure includes both combat and non-combat deaths that occurred since January 20. A few of the deaths were of...
Grim Milestone: 5,000 GIs Dead in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
Among the six U.S. servicemember deaths so far reported in June, one soldier has become the 5,000th casualty of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pssst, The War’s Not Over
The "Obamameter" is the St. Petersburg Times new tool for following President Obama's progress on completing his campaign promises. It's very cute and handy, but is it any more reliable than the president? While checking in to the site this afternoon, I came across...
They Lob Chutzpah Bombs Too
A funny little essay in a local newspaper came to my attention this morning. During an email discussion over the events and motives in the Gaza crisis, a friend of mine forwarded part of an op-ed piece that appeared in this week's Sun Sentinel, a daily newspaper in...
A ‘Day’ of Intel
One of my duties at Antiwar.com is to find news links for our readers. As you can imagine, it can get pretty tedious reading the same basic story across the different news agencies, but occasionally I am rewarded with a real gem for my troubles. Yesterday, tucked away...
Extrude Mahmoud
In an interview in Der Spiegel, former Mossad agent and current cabinet minister, Rafi Eitan suggested that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might find himself in front of an International Criminal Court in The Hague if he doesn't watch himself. Anyone with even...
Deadly Shell Game: Picking Afghanistan’s Casualty Figures
A frenzy over the 500th U.S. servicemember to die in Afghanistan developed in the media this week. According to the Associated Press, the U.S. death toll in Afghanistan surpassed 500 GIs recently, or perhaps it will reach that milestone soon...or...did we actually...
