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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs
- The investigation: leak exposes real war
- US intelligence records reveal civilian killings, ‘friendly fire’ deaths and shadowy special forces
- The interactive: key reports mapped
- The Afghanistan logs database is huge. Explore our selection of 300 of the key reports
- The interview: Julian Assange
- Watch the founder of Wikileaks explain why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files
- Logs reveal grim toll on civilians
- Hundreds of innocents die in over 140 incidents
- Task Force 373 – hunting Taliban
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US-led unit sent to kill top insurgents revealed
- Commanders point finger at Pakistan
- Sensational claims – but no smoking gun
- How coalition is losing IED war
- Surge in attacks deadly for troops and civilians
About the war logs
- This series of reports on the war in Afghanistan is based on the US military’s internal logs of the conflict between January 2004 and December 2009. Read more about the logs and how the Guardian investigated them. Read more …
- How to read the logs
- Video (2min 41sec), David Leigh explains what is in the logs and how the Guardian is using them
Explore the war logs
- The key incidents
- More than 300 key reports from the Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers
Editorial
- The unvarnished picture
- Editorial: Logs reveals a very different landscape from the one with which we have become familiar
- 65 comments
Further coverage of the war logs
The backstory
- Biggest leak in intelligence history
- From US military computers to a cafe in Brussels, how classified papers found their way to online activists
The death toll
- Civilians caught in UK firing line
- War logs contain accounts of shootings or bombings on at least 21 separate occasions
- ‘Friendly fire’ deaths that plagued invasion from the start
- British soldiers both perpetrators and victims in cases of deadly confusion among allies
- ‘Green on green’ – clashes between Afghan police and troops
- Bad blood, corruption and poor discipline have led to the security forces rounding on each other
The region
- More than 180 files detail accusations the ISI has supplied, armed and trained insurgents since 2004
- Secret war along the Pakistan border
- Americans caught in middle of flare-ups over disputed colonial boundary
- Iran’s covert operations in Afghanistan
- Behind-the-scenes help of the Taliban includes training, medical treatment and bribes
The air war
- Surface-to-air strike over Helmand shows Taliban had strong anti-aircraft capabilities earlier than previously thought
- Drones bring remote control death
- Unmanned planes that unleash missiles effective but expensive weapon for US forces and RAF
- Nato feared Taliban could tap phones
- Analysts warned major Afghan network for mobile phones might harbour enemy sympathisers
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