Military field reports
Afghan War Diary
First published 25 July 2010 · US Department of Defense · 91,731 reports (76,910 published; about 15,000 initially withheld)
91,731 US military reports from the war in Afghanistan, 2004 to 2009. I released them on 25 July 2010.
Overview
91,731 US military incident and intelligence reports from Afghanistan, January 2004 to December 2009. Combat, intelligence assessments, meetings with locals, casualties. Written by the soldiers and officers who were there.
We published 76,910 of them on 25 July 2010 and held back about 15,000 at our source's request to minimise harm. The White House said we had put service members at risk. Chelsea Manning was convicted in 2013 for the leak.
What reporting revealed
- Task Force 373, a US special forces unit on 'kill or capture' missions, killed civilians and Afghan police.
- 144 incidents of coalition forces harming civilians: at least 195 killed, 174 wounded, and almost certainly more.
- At least 180 intelligence files alleging that Pakistan's ISI aided the Taliban.
- The Taliban had surface-to-air missiles, and the US was flying more Reapers.
Documents
Reports per month, 2003-12 to 2009-12
Field reports held in this archive
1,084 complete reports — the first reports listed for each month. “%%%” marks names and details redacted by WikiLeaks before publication. Date and time as displayed by wardiaries.wikileaks.org, which appears to shift report times by one to two hours; a report shown at 23:00 may belong to the following day.
Killed and wounded columns total all parties recorded in each report. Source: wardiaries.wikileaks.org/search/?sort=date&release=Afghanistan · retrieved 26 October 2026.
Catalogue records
Entries describing the release and related documents, with provenance and sources.
| Published | Cat. no. | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-25 | FAN-0009 | Afghan War Diary: US military reports, 2004–2009 US military incident and intelligence reports from the war in Afghanistan, which I released through WikiLeaks on 25 July 2010; about 15,000 further reports were initially held back. | Military field reports |
Source
- Afghan War Diary — original release — wikileaks.org (Original publication)wikileaks.org