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The old guard passes : October 2017

We mark the passing of those who have served this country. Contributions from comrades and families welcome.

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Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:38

The old guard passes : September 2017

We mark the passing of those who served this country. Contributions from comrades or families welcome

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Thursday, 07 September 2017 08:28

The old guard passes : August 2017

We mark the passing of those who have served this country in conflicts. Contributions fro comrades and families welcome.

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Latest from icasualties.org

  • KP- 15 army cadets killed in Kabul suicide attack
    At least fifteen cadets of the Afghan army were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul city earlier this afternoon. The ministry of defense of Afghanistan confirmed the incident took place at around 3:30 pm local time near the former 99 Guard unit of the Afghan army. A spokesman for the ministry of defense General Dawlat Waziri confirmed that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives close to the vehicle of the army cadets crossing the area.
  • KP- Explosion rips through a hotel in North of Afghanistan, casualties feared
    An explosion ripped through a hotel in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan, leaving a number of people dead or wounded. According to the local security officials, the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Ishkamish district. Provincial police spokesman Khalil Asir confirmed the incident and said preliminary reports indicate at least two people were killed and eight others were wounded in the attack.
  • aninews- U.S. airstrike destroys ISIS training camp in Afghanistan
    At least 40 people including two trainers of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) terror group and several suicide bombers were killed in the airstrike conducted by the United States in the Achin district of Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan on Saturday. According to the Tolo News, the airstrike targetted an ISIS camp in the province used to train suicide bombers.
  • KP- Top Taliban leaders killed in Helmand operations
    Several top Taliban leaders have been killed during the operations of the Afghan security forces in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. According to the local officials, the Taliban leaders were killed during the recent military operations in various parts of the province.
  • AP- Bomb kills former Afghan warlord, bodyguard
    An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a former warlord and his bodyguard, and wounded eight other people. Khalil Aseir, spokesman for the chief of police in the northern Takhar province, says the blast early Sunday targeted Nazuk Mir, a militant commander during the struggle to drive out Soviet troops in the 1980s. The bomb went off at a restaurant where he was having breakfast.
  • KP- Deadly infighting among Taliban leaves 50 dead, wounded in Herat
    A new deadly infighting has erupted among the Taliban insurgents in western Herat province of Afghanistan, leaving nearly 50 people dead. According to the local officials in Herat, the latest clashes took place between the supporters of Taliban supreme Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada and dissident Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Rasool.
  • WaPo- Some Afghan troops training in the U.S. feared violence and corruption at home. So they went AWOL.
    Threats of death, widespread corruption and dismal job prospects have spurred scores of Afghan troops to flee training courses in the United States, according to a report issued Friday. Afghans were among several foreign nationals who went AWOL after arriving in the United States. But they were about half of the 320 foreign military and police personnel who have ditched military bases since 2005, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, the war effort’s watchdog agency.
  • AAP- Kabul mosque attacks leave 72 people dead
    Suicide bombers have attacked two mosques in Afghanistan, killing at least 72 people including children. The blasts happened at mosques in Kabul and the western province of Ghor on Friday and left the are devastated. "It was a gruesome scene, bodies lying everywhere and blood on the walls," Rahmatullah Alizada, an eyewitness who helped in pulling out the injured from the mosque, told dpa.

British military casualties - Editorial policy

In the service of our country.

Eulogies for all personnel killed on UK operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are posted as soon as they have been released by the UK Ministry of Defence. Each eulogy we publish for men down in operations brings a lump to the throat. We are losing the best of the best. Politicians must ensure that, when the newspaper cuttings have faded, their sacrifice has had some meaning, has helped bring about a good result. Anything else would be a waste for which they will be eternally condemned.

There is invariably at least a 24 hour gap between the official release of news of an event and the naming of the dead. This is to allow families to be informed and proper eulogoies to be produced. Occasionally families request no euologies or comment. We abide by guidance we receive on such sensitive matters. We regret that information on those who sacrifice almost as much through grave injury is seldom released by the MoD for operational reasons, and so we are unable to pay tribute.
 

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