Bagram: Last US and Nato forces leave key Afghanistan base
July 2, 2021 BBC News
BBC News references Costs of War data on the budgetary costs of the post-9/11 wars.
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Corruption in Afghanistan as ‘Big a Threat’ as Taliban
March 4, 2021 Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy discusses new Costs of War study on the U.S. War on Terrorism in Burkina Faso.
Biden Defends Withdrawal From Afghanistan as Taliban Makes Gains
July 8, 2021 Bloomberg
Bloomberg references Costs of War data on the number of direct deaths of Afghans caused by the post-9/11 wars.
The U.S. Could Have Left Afghanistan Years Ago, Sparing Many Lives
April 16, 2021 The Intercept
The Intercept cites Costs of War statistics on the economic and human costs of the US War on Terror in Afghanistan.
'Complicated, complex': Gold Star families, veterans react to troops leaving Afghanistan
July 23, 2021 The MetroWest Daily News
MetroWest Daily News cites Costs of War Project data on post-9/11 spending in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan war cost more than $2T and 240,000 lives, report finds
April 16, 2021 Military Times
Military Times cites Costs of War statistics on the human and economic costs of the US War on Terror in Afghanistan.
With Biden's withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan, America's longest war is ending: 5 Things podcast
August 1, 2021 USA Today
USA Today cites Costs of War Project data on the number of direct Iraqi civilian deaths in the post-9/11 wars.
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."
United States: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost more than expected
March 3, 2013
“According to Harvard University expert Linda Blimes, the United States will have to take care of an increasing number of veterans –around 2.5 million—the cost of which will be added to the costs of debt taken out to wage the wars.”
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.
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.
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.
Delusions of Modern Warfare: Afghanistan, A Case Study
April 13, 2025 Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer cited Costs of War research on the costs of the post-9/11 wars.
The Human and Financial Costs of Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
September 2019
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki (2019)