The leaked reports about the war in Afghanistan that have emerged this week show that NATO forces have killed more civilians than previously acknowledged.

The latest data on combat deaths in Afghanistan show that the gap in fatality rates between the UK and the US has widened still further.
 

Clive Fairweather and I have reported 20-weekly on a) militar

The Daily Telegraph and other media are today reporting newly released figures that, out of its reserves, UK has spent £8.22 and £9.9 billion  respectively for the militar

The conflict in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003 has claimed many thousands of lives. But how many, exactly?

The Prime Minister admitted in the House of Commons today that defence expenditure had not risen in real terms in every year since 1997, a claim he made to the Chilcot Inquiry and to Parliame

 Fatalities in Afghanistan are regularly reported in the media, but the numbers injured are less often examined.

With the deaths of Corporal John Moore and Private Sean McDonald of the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the toll of UK military deaths in Afghanistan equalled that in the Falklands (255).

Carrying out public opinion polls in Afghanistan is never going to be easy. Areas that are remote at the best of times are now inaccessible and dangerous.

For conflict in action, there are few livelier battlegrounds than the row over how many people die in wars.