08 Sep
United States Wars, News and Casualties
United States Wars, News and Casualties
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Originally Published on Jan 19, 2008
“Do not go gentle into that good night”
Poem by Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953.
Rage! Rage!
“I regret they got hurt,’ Bush,the former president and war criminal said of the veterans.”
To the War Criminal Bush – And to the thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians?
Never, ever forget that the War Criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. founded ISIS and today are proud of what they did and feel no regret.
‘It was the right decision’: Bush says he has ‘no regrets’ about invading Iraq and Afghanistan when asked how he feels when he sees wounded veterans
Since the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts began, at least 8,000 US and allied soldiers have died, according to CNN.
Tens of thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, according to the United Nations.
The civilian death toll in Iraq is estimated to be somewhere between 170,000 and 190,000, according to Iraq Body Count.
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REU: Russia says its air strike kills several top Islamic State commanders in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian air strike has killed around 40 Islamic State fighters, including four senior commanders, near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday.
The strike, carried out by Su-34 fighter-bombers and Su-35 fighters, came after an intelligence report on Sept. 5 showed that top Islamic State commanders were meeting at a secret underground command post in the vicinity of Deir al-Zor, the ministry said on its Facebook page.
Among those killed was Abu Muhammad al-Shimali, who oversees foreign fighters at IS, it said.
The defense ministry also said it had evidence that Gulmurod Khalimov, Islamic State’s “minister of war”, was present at the meeting in the bunker and had been fatally wounded in the strike and evacuated to the al-Muhasan area, 20 km (13 miles) southeast of Deir al-Zor.
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REU: France paying close attention to U.N. report on chemical attacks in Syria
PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Thursday it was paying close attention to evidence from a U.N. investigation that shows Syrian forces used chemical weapons in different attacks in 2017 and before.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in May, barely two weeks after his inauguration, that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would represent a red line and result in reprisals.
U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday that Syrian forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during the country’s six-year civil war, including a deadly attack that led to U.S. air strikes on government planes.
Syrian government forces carried out chemical attacks seven times between March 1 and July 7, according to the U.N. investigation, suggesting attacks would have taken place after Macron’s warnings.
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GUARD: Iraq’s killing fields: the lethal legacy of landmines – in pictures
Ten-year old Khadab found a cache of munitions in a school in Kirkuk in 2003. He was terribly injured after trying to burn gunpowder and explosives taken from the ordnance
Ismail Mustafa, seen in 2007. ‘I was collecting mushrooms on the hill near here. I didn’t see the mine. There was a huge explosion. When I woke up I saw that both my legs were gone; I thought my life was over. My brother and another guy were with me. They made a stretcher from sticks and tied it together with clothing. It took two hours to get off the mountain. ‘My daughter has also been injured. She found a shell and brought it into the house and put it on the fire. She didn’t know what she was doing at the time – she was only three. She is blind and has lost an arm.’
All photographs by Sean Sutton for the Mines Advisory Group
After decades of conflict, Iraq has been left littered with unexploded booby-traps. The Mines Advisory Group has spent 25 years in the country working to destroy and clear some of the millions of pieces of deadly ordnance. These images show members of the organisation at work, and the people whose lives have been touched and transformed by their efforts
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IraqiNews: Paramilitary forces repel Islamic State attack near Salahuddin shrine
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi paramilitary forces repelled on Friday an attack by Islamic State militants on a shrine in Salahuddin province, saying they went on a hunt for three militants following the attack.
The Popular Mobilization Forces said they fought back an assault by Islamic State militants on Sayyed Mohamed shrine, south of Tikrit. The PMF media service said the force found an explosive belt while chasing three militants on the outskirts of the nearby town of Balad.
Islamic State militants have increasingly targeted security forces and civilians across Iraq over the past months coinciding with operations by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces which sought to retake areas occupied by the group since 2014, when the militants proclaimed a self-styled “caliphate”.
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NYT: China, Pakistan Take Swipes at Trump’s Afghan Policy
BEIJING — The top diplomats from China and Pakistan took swipes at President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled Afghanistan policy on Friday as they called for new talks with the Taliban to resolve the 16-year conflict.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing stood firmly behind its “ironclad friend” Pakistan, even though “some countries” did not give Islamabad the credit it deserved in fighting terrorism, a pointed reference to the U.S.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif’s first trip abroad to Beijing this week appeared to highlight how ties between the two all-weather allies have grown even closer while Pakistan’s critical relationship with the U.S. is disintegrating amid mutual recriminations and distrust.
Wang and Asif announced that China, Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold a new series of three-way talks later this year in China to push forward settlement negotiations with the Taliban while the U.S. doubles down on its military campaign.
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BBC: The Day The West Invaded Afghanistan – Afghanistan War – Military Documentary Channel
The Day The West Invaded Afghanistan – Afghanistan War – Military Documentary Channel The War in Afghanistan (2015– present) refers to the period of the battle in Afghanistan complying with the 2001– 2014 phase led by the Usa of The u.s.a. The U.S.-led battle followed the September 11 assaults, and also it aimed to take down al-Qaeda by refuting it a safe basis of procedure in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power. After 2001, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) ended up being progressively entailed, at some point running combat procedures, under the direction of a UNITED STATE commander. On 28 December 2014, NATO officially finished combat procedures in Afghanistan and transferred complete protection duty to the Afghan federal government using a ceremony in Kabul, noting the beginning of the brand-new stage of the conflict.
Taliban leader among 7 killed, wounded in Maidan Wardak airstrike
By Khaama Press on 08 Sep 2017 10:17am – No Comments
An airstrike targeted the Taliban insurgents in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan leaving at least seven of them dead or wounded, the local officials said Thursday. A local commander of the militants was also among those killed during the airstrike. The provincial police commandment in a statement confirmed the airstrike and said at least
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Casualties, Exclusive of Civilians
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.Staff Sgt. Aaron R. Butler, 27, of Monticello, Utah, died Aug. 16 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations. The incident is under investigation.
Butler was assigned to the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Camp Williams, Utah.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. They died Aug. 13 of wounds sustained while engaged in combat operations in Iraq. Both soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The incident is under investigation.
Killed were:
Sgt. Roshain Euvince Brooks, 30, of Brooklyn, New York
Spc. Allen Levi Stigler Jr., 22, of Arlington, Texas
The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. They died Aug. 2 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, as a result of injuries sustained when a vehicle-borne improved explosive device detonated near their convoy. Both soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. The incident is under investigation.
Killed were:
Sgt. Jonathon Michael Hunter, 23, of Columbus, Indiana.
Spc. Christopher Michael Harris, 25, of Jackson Springs, North Carolina.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of an airman who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
Tech. Sgt. David Board, 49, of Barboursville, West Virginia, died August 2 in Kuwait in a non-combat-related incident while deployed in support of combat operations.
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