1. Rethinking America’s Fourth of July as Outdependen
(Newsletter)

...craft on Taliban targets near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, Pakistan officials have said. CONTINUE... US casualties in Afghan offensive Top_news By Agencies    Friday, 03 July ...

2. New UN Report Denounces America's Human Rights Record
(Opinions/Features)

...and other contractors engage in indiscriminate and otherwise questionable force against civilians, causing numerous casualties that may number in the thousands. Little of this gets reported and transp...

3. Robert Pape cautions the US
(Opinions/Review)

...to do with US national security, fighting terrorism, the advance of Democracy in the world or even a concern for US casualties in any other sense than a PR problem. (see my prior essay, “Bush is Winni...

4. Democracy strangled at birth
(Opinions/Politic)

...who were shooting from the roof of a house", the statement said. After the "battle" there were no US casualties but the US patrol found six bodies (five children and a female adult) ins...

5. A Necklace of Bombs for Baghdad
(Opinions/Features)

...was no more than 40. Three of the bombings targeted US military convoys. Eyewitnesses suggested that there were US casualties, and the US military confirmed that in one of the bombings US military pe...

6. British PM defends Afghan offensive
(Archived/News/Global)

The British prime minister has been forced to defend his country’s military role in Afghanistan.

7. US troops expand Afghan operation
(Archived/News/Global)

US marines taking part in an offensive against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan have been attempting to take control of an area along the border with neighbouring Pakistan.

8. US soldiers killed in Afghan attack
(Archived/News/Global)

At least two US soldiers have been killed and four others injured in an attack on a military base in the Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan, officials have said.

9. US casualties in Afghan offensive
(Archived/News/Global)

The first casualties have been reported as a US-led assault on Taliban-controlled areas in southern Afghanistan has entered its second day.

10. Russian allies condemn Georgia
(Archived/News/Global)

Russia has won the support of six former Soviet nations over its war in Georgia during a meeting of member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Moscow.