July Deadliest Month For U.S. In Afghan War

As July comes to an end, it also marks the deadliest month ever for U.S. troops since the war in Afghanistan began, according to lcasualties.org. The three soldiers died in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan Thursday, said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Kabul. Sixty-six Americans have been killed in July so far.

Many of the explosives have also taken the lives of ordinary Afghans. It was reported on Wednesday (July 26) that at least 25 Afghans were killed and at least 20 more wounded when a civilian bus transporting passengers from Nimroz province in the south to Kabul drove over an IED. 

- Alexa Gitler