Russia Wants to ‘Help’ U.S. Troops Exit Afghanistan: ‘They Will Have to Leave Sooner or Later’
February 8, 2019 Newsweek
Recent research from Costs of War cited that estimates the US has spent nearly $6 trillion in post-9/11 wars.
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Afghanistan's Hired Guns
April 26, 2019 US News and World Report
Co-director Catherine Lutz cited in an article on how the number of private contractors in America's longest war has jumped at an unprecented rate in the last three months.
The Human and Financial Costs of Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
September 2019
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki (2019)
The devastating toll of the Afghanistan War — by the numbers
August 31, 2022 Washington Examiner
Costs of War’s infographic on 20 years post-Afghanistan was reported in the Washington Examiner.
Afghanistan : An anguished nation
June 12, 2023 News Intervention
Costs of War was cited in News Intervention (Pakistan).
Afghanistan: Profitiert haben die grossen Waffenschmieden
October 15, 2023 Pressenza
Costs of War was cited in Pressenza on the costs of war in Afghanistan.
Veterans Day Parade salutes Iraq, Afghanistan war vets
November 10, 2023 Petaluma Argus-Courier
On Veterans Day, Costs of War was cited by Petaluma Argus-Courier (Ca.).
8/14/24 Matthew Hoh on Obama’s Folly in Afghanistan and Recourses for Managing and Dealing with PTSD
August 14, 2024 The Scott Horton Show
The Scott Horton Show podcast cited our report on sexual assault.
Foreign workers hurt or killed on American bases in Afghanistan did not get compensation
December 20, 2022 NBC News Daily
NBC News Daily ran a segment with the reporter summarizing the report, which ran on its streaming platform and in local broadcasts. It was also covered in Stars and Stripes and Common Dreams.
Aid to Ukraine Exceeds Cost of 2011 Afghanistan Surge
January 23, 2023 Breitbart
Costs of War was cited in Breitbart quoting Trita Parsi on the costs of the war post-9/11 wars.
Watson’s Costs of War Project finds contracted workers in Afghanistan not properly compensated after injury, death
February 1, 2023 Brown Daily Herald
Costs of War research on labor abuses of third-country nationals was cited in The Brown Daily Herald.
‘Worst ever’: War in Gaza deadliest for journalists, surpassing world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan tolls, study reveals
April 1, 2025 The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe wrote about our latest research on the dangers to war reporters.
Peace is at Hand in Afghanistan — Or Not
May 4, 2016 Huffington Post
"Approximately 92,000 Afghans have been killed in the war since 2001, and more than 26,000 of those were civilians, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Almost 100,000 more have been injured."
U.S. Reconstruction Aid for Afghanistan: The Dollars and Sense
January 2015
Catherine Lutz and Sujaya Desai (2015)
The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions will Cancel Out the Peace Dividend
March 2013
Linda J. Bilmes (2013)
Report: Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan cost almost $5 trillion so far
September 12, 2016 Military Times
In a report for Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, study author Neta Crawford called the total “so large as to be almost incomprehensible,” but noted the dollar figures are only one part of the costs of war.
With Relaxed Restrictions, More Civilians Died in Air Strikes in Afghanistan in 2017-2020
December 8, 2020 The Diplomat
The Diplomat covers Costs of War's new study on increased civilian casualties due to U.S. and allied forces' airstrikes.
After 15 years, Taliban still control as much Afghanistan area as when war started
October 7, 2016 Times of India
"These 15 years of war, preceded by 20 years of wars against the Soviet Union and between warlords has taken a devastating toll. A latest estimate of direct war related casualties by Neta Crawford says, professor at Boston University, some 111,000 people have died and 116,000 injured."