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(July 30) -- Sixty-six American soldiers have died so far this July in Afghanistan, making it the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the history of the nine-year war. The record it broke is not very old: Until now, June had been the deadliest month for American troops, with 60 killed.
The military foresaw the growing toll. "U.S. and NATO commanders had warned that casualties would rise as the international military force ramps up the war against the Taliban, especially in their southern strongholds in Helmand and Kandahar provinces," reports the Los Angeles Times.
British newspaper The Guardian offers a glimpse of the conflict that few American civilians get to see firsthand. The newspaper's filmmaker/photographer Sean Smith spent five weeks filming in Afghanistan, first with a helicopter ambulance crew and then with the U.S. Marines. The footage spares viewers the gore that's part of war -- it blots out the face of a soldier who has been shot in the face, for instance -- but it (and Smith's spare diary from his time there) brings home a conflict that's killing troops in rising numbers thousands of miles away.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian.
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