Website NewsSome news has been copied from taliban websites and posted here and they refer themselves are Mujahadin and the Nato and USA as invaders.4 American invaders killed in Wardag
Zabihullah Mujahid
2 september 2010 At least four US cowardly soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a roadside bomb detonated under their tanks and ripped it into pieces in Wardag.(Taliban website)
1 septhumber 2010 KABUL (AFP) - Five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Nato said, as the number of Americans to die in the war in the past four days climbed to 22.
Four soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan in a Taliban-style bomb attack, Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said.
The fifth died in an insurgent attack in the south of the country, where the insurgency is at its fiercest, it said in a separate statement. A spokesman confirmed to AFP that all the dead were Americans. The deaths bring to 485 the total number of foreign troops killed in the Afghan war this year, compared to 521 for all of 2009, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by the independent icasualties.org website.
The deaths come a day after eight Nato troops - seven of them American and the other an Estonian - were killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.
French military officials said Tuesday that a soldier serving in Afghanistan was killed when the armoured vehicle he was travelling in tumbled into a ravine Monday during an operation in the Uzbeen valley.
Canada lost its 152nd soldier of the Afghan war when a corporal died from injuries sustained from an IED on August 22.
Altogether, the coalition has lost 2,053 soldiers in the war.
Meanwhile, international aid agency Oxfam has suspended its operations in a northern region of Afghanistan after three local staff members were killed by a roadside bomb, a spokeswoman said in statement issued in London on Tuesday.
31 August 2010 Four US soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan Tuesday, Nato said, bringing the toll of Americans to 21 dead since Friday. Nato spokesman James Judge confirmed to a foreign news agency that four American soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan by an improvised explosive devise (IED). The deaths bring to 484 the total number of foreign troops killed in the Afghan war this year, compared to 521 for all of 2009, according to a foreign news agency tally based on that kept by the independent icasualties.org website. The deaths come a day after eight Nato troops — seven of them American — were killed in similar bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.
29 August 1020 By Zabihullah Mujahid
More than 20 logistical vehicles were annihilated and 7 puppet soldiers and polices got killed as well as 2 injured in a series of massive surprise attacks in Wardag province, Mujahideen officials reported from Wardag. They add as many as 8 separate successful ambush attacks, starting form 1:00 pm till 4:pm on Sunday (Aug. 29), were carried out on the US-NATO invaders’ convoy along the way from Sayedabad district till Ghazni province on. (Taliban website)
29 August 1020 At least four US invaders were killed yesterday night (Aug 29) at around 3:00 when the enemy invaders’ tank hit a roadside bomb in the province’s Baraki Barak district. (Taliban website)
29 August 1020 LANDI KOTAL – Two officials of Frontier Constabulary (FC) were martyred and three others sustained injuries in attack on a convoy of forces here in Mamanra Kandao, Bara, on Sunday, FC sources informed.
28 August 2010 By Zabihullah Mujahid
In two separate large scale operations by Afghan Taliban in Shahar Bagh and Old airbase areas in Khost province killed about 40 US-NATO and 14 local ANA and ANP puppets were killed Saturday.
According to the report from the Khost province, 19 invaders were killed in Sahar Bagh and 21 got killed in the Old airbase areas of Khost with 8 soldiers of ANA and 6 cowardly policemen during the 7-hour long operation, however, one of the NATO helicopter got shot with RPGs during the fighting. (Taliban website)
27 August 2010 A NATO base in volatile eastern Afghanistan came under attack early Saturday from possible Taliban militants, police in the region said. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was unable to confirm reports that a US-run base in Khost province had come under attack but said it was investigating the reports. "From what I understand it is still ongoing, we are getting details," a spokeswoman told AFP.
Local police chief Adbul Hakim Is'haqzai told AFP that Taliban militants had first attacked Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno before retreating to occupy a secondary school in Khost city, the provincial capital.
The school was near a smaller US-run base, FOB Chapman, he said.
Seven CIA agents were killed in a Taliban attack on FOB Chapman in December, in what was the worst attack on US intelligence officials since 1983, when the US embassy in Beirut was bombed.
The Saturday attack began when Taliban launched rockets and gunfire on Salerno in the early hours of the morning, Is'haqzai said. He told AFP at 5:30am (0100 GMT): "Now the fighting (at Salerno) has slowed down," but there was an ongoing exchange of fire between militants and security forces at the school. Residents reported hearing gunfire.
"There are gunshots being heard all around my home. I'm scared of the attackers entering my home and of being bombarded by coalition forces," said resident Amir Shah, whose home is near the Gharghast High School in Khost. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed contacted AFP to say the insurgent group had despatched suicide bombers to the base. "Twenty-eight Taliban suicide bombers have launched an attack on a coalition base in Khost," he said from an undisclosed location."They have entered the base," he said.
26 August 2010 By Zabihullah Mujahid
On Friday, A NATO invading forces’ helicopter got brought down in the province’s Ali Abad district when it was rocketed by Mujahideen at about 3:00 am, killing all the enemy soldiers and crew members aboard, the report indicated, adding that wreckage of the enemy copter is still lying scattered at the shoot down scene (Taliban website)
26 August 2010 By Zabihullah Mujahid
Mujahideen, in a night operation in the south-west of Kunduz province, attacked one of the NATO invaders’ outpost in Rostaq area yesterday, damaging the facility and killing 3 cowardly invaders.(Taliban website)
26 August 2010 Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate along Kabul-Logar highway got one of the invading forces’ tanks blown apart through remotely controlled bomb Thursday, killing 3 enemy invaders and wounding another two.(Taliban website)
26 August 2010 Afghan Taliban launched an attack on a coalition force combat outpost in Kunar province Thursday and the trading of fire killed four insurgents and one civilian. A press release issued Friday by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the incident, which took place in the Darah-ye Pech district of Kunar province. The coalition force responded to the insurgent attack with mortar fire and called for air support, said the NATO press release. It said an insurgent round was observed to have landed short of its target, allegedly killing an Afghan civilian in a corn field. Coalition force operational reports also confirm that four insurgents were killed when precision-guided munitions were used on a ridgeline near where the insurgent fire originated, said the press release.
26 August 2010 Taliban attack against police checkpoint in Kunduz province north of Afghanistan left eight policemen dead on Thursday, provincial governor Mohammad Omar said.
"A group of Taliban rebels raided a police checkpoint in Siab area outside provincial capital Kunduz city at 05:30 a.m. local time leaving eight policemen dead, Omar told Xinhua. One more police constable sustained injuries in the attack, he said. The attackers made their good escape, he added. Taliban insurgents have recently intensified their attacks against police in the war-torn country. By mysteriously poisoning or direct attack on police checkpoints, the Taliban militants have killed over two dozen police elsewhere in the country over the past couple of weeks. Kunduz, a relatively peaceful province until last year, has been the scene of increasing Taliban-linked militancy since beginning this year.
24 August A roadside bomb hit and eliminated one of the US terrorists’ armored tank in Tarin Kot city, the capital of Uruzgan on Monday morning, Mujahideen say that tank got fully destroyed killing or injuring 7 American terrorist soldiers. (Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
24 August A series of Mujahideen’s bomb blast in the province’s Arghandab district separately left three of the US invaders’ armored tanks traveling in convoy to plot ground operation against Mujahideen in the area completely wrecked killing all the American invaders aboard the tank, the repot said. The wreckage of the struck tanks are said to by lying scatter at scenes of the explosions till Monday. (Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
24 August An early morning blast tore through one of the British invaders’ tanks on Monday while traveling in convoy in Musa Kala district, Helmand province, eliminating the tanks and killing or wounding the invaders inside the tank. Also Monday, Mujahideen, in an encounter with the British foot soldiers, killed one Briton and wounded three more elsewhere in Musa Kala. (Taliban website)
22 AUGUST 2010. Two US soldiers were attacked and killed by militants in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, NATO said. The dead soldiers' identities were not revealed, in accordance with NATO policy. A spokesman from the alliance's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldiers were killed in the same incident in eastern Afghanistan. The deaths bring to 449 the number of foreign soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan this year, including 292 Americans, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by the icasualties.org website. The total for the entire year of 2009 was 520. Statements from the alliance on Saturday said three of its soldiers were killed in separate insurgent attacks.
20 August 2010
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August 20, 2010
Officials say Taliban fighters killed up to 30 Afghans working for a road-building company in the south of the country.
There was no immediate explanation for the attack late on August 19 in the Sangin district of Helmand Province in which the road crew workers and security guards were killed.
Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Helmand governor, said 12 bodies had been taken to a hospital in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, along with some of the wounded.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), meanwhile, said three of its service members had been killed in two roadside bomb attacks in the south on August 19-20.
19 August2010
By Zabihullah Mujahid
14 August 2010
At least 2 US invaders were killed 2 wounded when Afghan Taliban shot their tank with a RPG round in Pathkhab Darwesh area of Logar city , at 12:40 pm. In another incident, 2 cowardly US invaders were killed and 1 wounded in a 45-min firefight with Afghan Taliban early morning, at around 02:00 am, in Khadr area of Logar city. (Taliban website)
13 of august 2010
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Reports from Zabul province’s Mizani district say that yesterday, at around 04:00 pm, Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate shot a foreign invaders helicopter down as the invaders tried to land their helicopters to capture or Martyr Mujahideen in the area. Reports add that after one of the helicopters landed, Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate started shooting with rifles and automatic-machineguns at another helicopter which was still in-flight, as a result of which it caught fire in midair and smashed onto the ground killing all its crew members. The helicopter which had landed, took-off after seeing the Mujahideen’s rapid reaction. (Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Reports from Arghandab district say that on Aug. 13th, some 3 US invaders killed and 4 seriously wounded when a house booby-trapped by Afghan Taliban exploded on the invaders as they entered the house in Char Ghalba area. Mujahideen say that after the heavy explosion, the invaders jets bombed the surrounding area but without causing Mujahideen any harm.(Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmad
At least 3 US terrorists were killed and 3 others wounded when a mine exploded on their foot patrol as they tried to leave their base in Marjah’s 7th Block area on 13th August morning, at 10:00 am.(Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
A US invaders tank was destroyed by an IED killing or wounding all the terrorists onboard on Aug. 12, when their patrol was passing through Regan Manda area of Gerishk district. While in another incident yesterday, a mine exploded on US invaders foot patrol in this districts Kampart area killing 3 invaders and seriously wounding 2 others. (Taliban website)
LONDON (AFP) - A British soldier died in hospital in England after being badly injured in an explosion in southern Afghanistan last month, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday.
The unidentified soldier, from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire), was hurt while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Hel-mand Province, southern Afghanistan, on July 13.
He died late Wednesday in hospital in Birmingham, central England, and his family has been informed.
The death brings to 328 the number of British troops killed since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Around 9,500 British troops are in Afghanistan, making them the second largest contingent of the 150,000-strong international force battling an insurgency by the Taliban militia.
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Reports from Marjah’s that last night, 2 US terrorists were killed and 2 wounded when a mine exploded on their foot patrol when they tried to come out of their base. In another report from the same district’s Haji Agha Gul Lala block, 2 invaders were killed and 2 wounded in a similar explosion to the other one, last night. Reports add that in the explosion 1 ANA puppet was also killed. (Taliban website)
By Zabihullah Mujahid
According to a report from Balk, a NATO invaders military convoy was ambushed by Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate on Mazar-Shibarghan main highway last night, (08th August). Reports add that in the firefight, 1 NATO invaders tank was destroyed by RPG fire killing 3 invaders and wounding 2 in Char Bolak district. (Taliban website)
By Zabihullah Mujahid
Reports from Nooristan’s Noorigram district say that 9 missiles fired by Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate last night, at 9:00 pm, landed in the NATO invaders base. Mujahideen say that one enemy barrack was hit by a missile and caught fire, killing or wounding 6 NATO invaders. (Taliban website)
By Omar
The fighting erupted following the airlift of a large number of the American terrorists by parachutes into Khogainu district of Nangarhar to plot a raid against Mujahideen in the area. According to the report from the area, as many as 31 US cowardly soldiers were killed in this frenzy battle continuing for about 3 hours between Mujahideen and the invaders. However, 8 Mujahideen joined the rank of martyrs, giving their lives in the cause of Allah during the three-hour long firefight due to the Mujahideen running out of ammunition.
In the meantime, the US air strikes martyred 7 civilians while the fighting was ongoing, and the US barbaric invaders bombed again during the funeral services, leaving another 10 martyred on the spot.(Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
The enemy was drawn into fighting when the US soldiers were just out of their base the report said from southern Helmand province, adding that about four US invaders were killed and wounded with the enemy’s tank destroyed on Saturday’s fighting which occurred in Sangin district of Helmand. (Taliban website)
By Omar
On later Thursday, Talib Muhammad, a martyrdom-seeking Mujahid of the Islamic Emirate slammed his three-wheeled motorcycle containing 500 kg explosives into the NATO forces amid frisking the civilians in Southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, killing as many as 17 US-NATO cowardly troops standing nearby, Mujahideen officials said Friday. The officials added the operation was carried in Maiwand district of the province, while three NATO female soldiers frisking the women in the area were among the those killed in the martyr VBIED attack, according to locals, the mutilated parts of the NATO soldiers were lying scattered around the area till Friday. (Taliban website)
Two U.S. soldiers went missing in Logar province 60 km south of Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, locals said on Saturday.
"These two soldiers went missing since Friday from Charkh district," a resident of Logar province who declined to be identified told Xinhua. Another resident of Logar province also confirmed the incident.
On the other hand, U.S. military press department in Logar province when approached by Xinhua's reporter, said he would check and call back.
Meantime, a Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in talks with media via telephone from an unknown location claimed responsibility for their abduction and said, "Taliban fighters captured two U.S. soldiers with two cameras and two assault rifles from Charkh district on Friday."
This is the third American soldiers have been captured by Taliban. Previously the militants captured a U.S. soldier from eastern Paktia province in 2009.
Four American service members were killed Saturday in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, where international forces are stepping up the fight against the Taliban, officials said. A NATO announcement did not give the nationalities of the victims of Saturday's blast, nor specify where in the south they died. However, U.S. officials confirmed they were Americans. The latest deaths bring to 76 the number of international service members killed in Afghanistan this month, including 56 Americans.
NATO forces say a helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing 2 US service members who were aboard. NATO says it is investigating the cause of the crash. Spokeswoman Lt. Commander Katie Kendrick says hostile fire has not been ruled out. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi says the helicopter was shot down by their forces. A spokesman for the provincial government of southern Helmand province, Daoud Ahmadi, says the helicopter went down in the area of Lashkar Gah, the biggest city in the province.
At around 2:00 pm on July 20 , Mujahideen in Logar’s Baraki Barak district got 2 American killed and three more injured when Mujahideen IED ripped through the enemy tank leaving it wrecked. (Taliban website)
In an attack on the US invading forces patrol who were drawn into fighting with Mujahideen, killed 2 invaders and wounded two more in the province’s Alingar district on Tuesday at around 10:00 am. (Taliban website)
Some 6 American invaders were killed with four more injured in a clash with Mujahideen July 17 at around 4:00 pm, in the province Hasan Khel district, while, Mujahideen, separately, destroyed one of the enemy’s vehicles, killing 3 puppets elements besides, wounding two more elsewhere in this district.(Taliban website)
By Zabihullah Mujahid
According to a recent report from Farah, Mujahideen in a large scale offensive in Farah city, the capital Farah amid operation al-Fath, penetrated into the city July 18 at approximately 1:30 am, drawing almost all the enemy forces into face-to-face fighting with Mujahideen, in which Mujahideen had the wall of central jail exploded, giving an opportunity to as many as 270 prisoners, including the old, women and children besides the others among whom were some children, women and elderly men who had been sentenced to death of life imprisonment to escape who have been provided shelter by Mujahideen.
Locals say, soon after the operation that lasted an hour, all the ways in and out of Farah city were shut, whereas the enemy forces held 6 innocent civilian on the charge of backing the Mujahideen in this operation.
It is worth mentioning that nearly two years ago Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate broke Kandahar central prison, having about 1000 prisoners released. (Taliban website)
Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate Sunday (July 18) at around 11:00 am, had 3 American terrorists killed and injured another one with IED blast in Nawa district of Helmand.(Taliban website)
At least 7 NATO invaders including their officers were killed in Maghar district of Badghis as two of the enemy tanks were hit and destroyed in Mujahideen IEDs Sunday at approximately 3:00 pm.(Taliban website)
By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Sunday morning , July 18, at about 11 am, Mujahideen in a four-hour long fighting with the invaders in Helmad’s Sangin district, killed or wounded 6 Briton terrorists, while two of the Mujahideen, too, sustained injuries during the fighting.(Taliban website)
By Zabihullah Mujahid
Akhtar-u-Allah, a Mujahid of the Islamic Emirate, Sunday at about 1:30 pm local time, carried out a martyrdom operation in Qalandar Khel area of Parwan, slamming his explosive-filled Corolla car into the military convoy of the NATO invaders’, in which two of the enemy vehicles were destroyed killing some 12 NATO invaders. (Taliban website)
In encounter with the US invaders in central Baghlan district, Baghlan province, Mujahideen killed about 15 invaders, forcing the rest of the enemy forces to run away using helicopters, while Mujahideen captured three of their local puppets during the fighting on July 17. (Taliban website)
MUZAFFARABAD (Agencies) – Kashmiri political leaders and groups on Tuesday rejected talks between Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers scheduled in Islamabad this week.
“The talks can be meaningful only if Kashmiris are made part of it,” AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan told a conference in Muzaffar-abad. Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) organised the conference of 17 organisations fighting Indian rule in Occupied Kashmir under the umbrella of United Jihad Council (UJC).
Haider urged delegates to “strengthen the independence movement” and called his government “a base camp for the independence movement of Held Kashmir”.
The AJP Premier vowed to fight India for control of the disputed territory.
“Let me assure you that every home in Kashmir will become a bunker against India,” he told the crowd.
“Azad Kashmir will become a base for the independence movement.”
He said he would like to see normal relations between the two countries but doubted Indian intentions.
“India is not sincere,” he told a private TV channel.
The conference came two days before India’s External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is to visit Islamabad for talks with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Syed Salahuddin, the leader of Hizbul Mujahideen and Chairman of the UJC, said, “The red carpet reception to Indian ministers in Islamabad has added insult to injury for Kashmiris.”
“We reject the Foreign Ministers’ talks on Thursday (tomorrow). We also don’t accept any talks until Kashmiris are made part of it,” he added.
“Jihad is the only way to deal with India’s stubbornness. We will continue our struggle until the last Indian soldier leaves Kashmir,” Salahuddin said.
“It is mandatory for every child in every street to wage war against India to bring it down to its knees.”
Banned charity Jammat-ud-Dawa was also represented at the meeting.
“We are part of Kashmiri’s independence movement. This is not terrorism but a freedom fight,” said one of its leaders, Hafiz Saifullah Mansoor.
An Afghan soldier killed three British soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, said a defence ministry spokesman in Kabul. "We confirm that an Afghan army soldier has opened fire and killed three British soldiers," Mohammad Zahir Azimi told a foreign news agency. He gave no immediate further details, but said the ministry would soon release a statement.
Both India and Pakistan population is growing at a very fast level. Any GDP growth in the countries industries mean little because the new born eats it out. Thus making the growth unsustainable and has little effect on lives of millions of poor living in India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan should learn from Afghanistan how to keep the population low. Afghanistan has the smallest population landwise in the whole world. Afghanistan is three and half time the size of UK but it has a population of only 25 and half million people.
A wave of attacks killed six U.S. troops and at least a dozen civilians Saturday in Afghanistan's volatile south and east, as American reinforcements moving into Taliban-dominated areas face up to the fierce resistance they expected.
Increased U.S.-led military operations in the southern province of Kandahar are aimed at trying to break the Taliban's grip where they are strongest by delivering security and government services to win over Afghan people.
The hope is that once the tide begins to turn, more control can be handed to Afghan forces without fear that the Taliban might again seize power, bring back its harsh interpretation of Islamic law and resume sheltering al-Qaida terrorist leaders. Then U.S. troops could begin withdrawing in July 2011, in line with a timeline set by President Barack Obama.
Senior U.S. military officers have warned, however, that the fight in the Taliban's spiritual birthplace would lead to a rise in casualties for troops. June was the deadliest month of the nearly nine-year war, and July has kept pace.
On Saturday, two of the U.S. troops killed died in the south in separate roadside bombings. In Kandahar city, a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle exploded, setting cars ablaze and shattering windows at a popular shopping center. The provincial government said one passerby was killed.
The other American service members died in the east: one as a result of small-arms fire, another by a roadside bomb, a third during an insurgent attack and the last in an accidental explosion. Their deaths raised to 23 the number of American troops killed so far this month. Last month, 103 international troops were killed, 60 of them Americans.
In the spring, as NATO began stepping up patrols in the south, Adm. Mike Mullen, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned reporters again that such a rise casualties would be inevitable. "I think we've been very clear for months now that this was going to be a very difficult fight in the south, and tried to set expectations, as tragic as it is, for these losses,'' said Adm. Mullen, who is President Obama's top military adviser.
Progress has indeed proved slow, and the Afghan government is struggling to build trust, with many authorities seen as corrupt or unprofessional. Violence has also escalated as the insurgents work to sabotage Afghan authorities and kill foreign forces, sometimes with dramatic terrorist attacks, but most days with a steady flow of roadside bombs and small attacks.
About 14 Nato soldiers were killed Friday morning when three of the their tanks hit and eliminated in three separate bombings Shinki district of Zabul. According to the report from the area, a helicopter was called in to airlift the dead from the area.
Taliban in a series of steady intense armed and bomb attacks on the combined US forces and their local allies military bases, barracks, posts and patrols in Noorulam valley, Laghman, closed in on the Nato forcing the NATO forces left the area. The report adds that white flag of the Taliban has been raised in the area taken.
Thursday, July 08, at approximately 5:00 pm local time, Taliban shot down a US helicopter while flying low over an area near Kalat city, the capital of the Zabul province, leaving the helicopter on fire which fell down in the area, shortly after it was struck. According to the report from the province, all the US soldiers and the crew members aboard the helicopter were killed, while the area was cordoned off by the USA soldiers preventing the by-standers to get close enough to catch a close sight of the crash scene.
Taliban on Thursday, July 08, at about 8:00 am local time, got a US tank destroyed with an EID in Logar's Charkh district, killing 3 American troops besides wounding two
NATO Wednesday added three deaths to the toll of foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, all of them killed by crude bombs favoured by the insurgents.
All three troops, whose nationalities were not given, died on Tuesday in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, where the long war is at its fiercest, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
The deaths bring to 339 the number of foreign soldiers to have died in the Afghan conflict this year, according to an AFP tally based on a count kept by the icasualties.org website.
In July alone, 17 foreign soldiers have died. June set the record for the war, now in its ninth year, with 102 deaths.
Strategic planners warned the summer "fighting season" would see a spike in deaths, as NATO and the US beef up deployments in an effort to speed an end to the war.
Around 140,000 NATO and US troops are in Afghanistan, with another 10,000 expected to arrive, mostly in southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces, in coming weeks.
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Four British soldiers working with Afghan police in Helmand province died when their armoured vehicle rolled off a road and ended up under water in a canal, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The three soldiers from 1st Battalion the Mercian Regiment and one soldier from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment were travelling through northern Nahr-e Saraj, near Gereshk, on Wednesday night when their vehicle left the road. It is thought the men drowned in the Nar-e-Bughra canal, which irrigates central Helmand. The MoD said no enemy action was involved and that the cause of the crash was being investigated. David Cameron reacted to the news as he left for the G8 and G20 summit in Canada. He said: "This was a completely tragic case. Obviously we are paying a very high price for what we are doing in Afghanistan. We have had a difficult few weeks in terms of casualties and it will be a difficult summer, there is no doubt about that. We have to ask ourselves all the time the question: are we doing the right thing by conducting this counter-insurgency operation and in building up the Afghan forces?"
The warning of more casualties this summer is seen as a frank attempt by the prime minister to prepare the country for more deaths as the Taliban push a military offensive.
Turkey and 12 other southeastern European countries on Wednesday denounced the recent Israeli raid on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza, which left eight Turks and one Turkish American dead. The countries said in a joint declaration at the end of a Balkan summit that they want "an impartial, independent and internationally credible investigation on this matter." They also stressed the urgent need to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Nine pro-Palestinian activists — eight Turks and an American-Turkish teenager — were killed after a squad of naval commandos stormed a ship trying to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel says its soldiers began shooting only after a mob of activists attacked them.
A dozen militants ambushed a Pakistani military patrol in the northwestern tribal badlands Monday, killing three soldiers and sparking deadly clashes, officials said.
The incident took place in Kasha village in Orakzai, the district where the military said on June 1 that major combat operations as part of an anti-Taliban offensive were over.
"Three soldiers of the Frontier Corps were killed and five others wounded in the attack," an official from the paramilitary told AFP.
Around a dozen militants attacked the convoy, triggering a gunfight which killed more than 10 rebels, the official added.
A senior military official confirmed the incident and said it took place while FC men were on a routine patrol.
Independent confirmation of casualty figures is impossible because the area is a military zone closed to aid workers and journalists.
Pakistani forces opened a new front in Orakzai on March 24 in an attempt to flush out Taliban who escaped a major assault last year on South Waziristan, a headquarters for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership.
A British marine has died of injuries sustained in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said Monday, taking the country's total military death toll in the conflict to 300.
The grim landmark comes during a year which has already seen the second-highest number of British fatalities since operations began in 2001 -- 55.
"It is desperately sad news. Another family with such grief and pain and loss. Of course the 300th death is no more or less tragic than the 299 that came before," said Prime Minister David Cameron.
"But it is a moment, I think, for the whole country to reflect on the incredible service and sacrifice and dedication that our armed services give on our behalf."
He added that British troops would leave Afghanistan "as soon as they (Afghans) are able to take care and take security for their own country".
The latest victim, from 40 Commando Royal Marines, died in hospital in Birmingham, central England, Sunday after being seriously injured in an explosion in Sangin, Helmand Province, on June 12, it said.
Britain has around 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, making it the second largest contributor to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
They are based in the troubled southern Helmand province, battling Taliban insurgents and training local security forces.
Following news of the 300th fatality, Defence Secretary Liam Fox stressed that he hoped to "bring our forces home" from Afghanistan once Afghans can provide sufficient security and governance for themselves.
"The last nine years have seen British forces at the forefront of the campaign, for the last five working hard in one of the most challenging areas of the country building Afghan capacity to secure and govern their own country -- a process which ultimately will allow us to bring our forces home".
Cameron added: "We are paying a high price for keeping our country safe, for making our world a safer place, and we should keep asking why we are there and how long we must be there.
Afghan turns to Taliben justice as Insurgent set up shadow government
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