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Seventy-Six Countries Are Now Involved in Washington's War on Terror

January 4, 2018 Truthout

"The Costs of War Project has produced not just a map of the war on terror, 2015-2017, but the first map of its kind ever. It offers an astounding vision of Washington's counterterror wars across the globe: their spread, the deployment of US forces, the expanding ..."

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News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World

Since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means, from repressive policies to armed attack. All have killed journalists and helped to foster...

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There Is No Such Thing as a Green War

July 6, 2019 Truthout

"Just as there is no such thing as a green war, there is likewise no way to confront climate change unless we confront the war machine, and vice versa," says Truthout article in response to the Cost of War Project's recent climate change report.

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Rising death rate prompts some in Congress to reassess "war on terror"

November 8, 2018 Axios

Costs of War Co-Director Stephanie Savell writes, "The United States’ “war on terror” in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq has directly killed at least 480,000 people since 2001... This new body count signals that, far from diminishing, the war is only intensifying."

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End the War in Afghanistan

February 3, 2019 The New York Times

NYTimes Editorial Board calls for ending the war in Afghanistan, drawing on evidence from Costs of War that the war has extended to 80 countries, cost $5.9 trillion, and resulted in a loss of half a million lives.

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Visions of war and wealth in the Middle East

August 9, 2018 Foreign Policy in Focus

An analysis of U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan argues that it is part of a long-term strategy to gain regional influence and access to resources. The article cites the Costs of War Project, which estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the war in Afghanistan and about 200,000 people have died in the war in Iraq. 

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In Afghanistan, Trump is poised to re-escalate a hopeless war

May 12, 2017 The Atlantic

The Costs of War Project is referenced in this article on how few Americans are focused on the war in Afghanistan. "According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Afghan war has already cost the United States more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars."

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Deserted: The U.S. Military's Sexual Assault Crisis as a Cost of War

Over the past decade, the U.S. military has implemented policies to promote gender equality, notably lifting the ban on women in combat roles in 2013 and opening all military jobs to women by 2016. Yet, even as U.S. military policy reforms during the “War on Terror” appear to reflect greater...

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War Made Invisible

June 16, 2023 Counterpunch

Costs of War was cited in Counterpunch on the war on terror in over 80 countries.

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