The casualty toll is just a snapshot of the ... all the houses around us have been destroyed." The war in Afghanistan has gone on for four decades, and has been at a stalemate for a number of ...

Ground engagements, mainly between pro-government forces and anti-government groups, also remained a leading cause of civilian casualties. The rockets date back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in ...

Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to significant lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost of war. It banned photographers ...

their casualties are comparable with those the Soviet Union suffered throughout the 10-year war in Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stressed this on Monday at a meeting of the UN ...