Afghanistan has changed in many and complex ways in the 10 years since operation enduring freedom began.

In this time we have had insights into the reality of war quite unlike any before.

The Afghanistan war logs gave insights into the numbers of explosive devises and the deaths these have caused. Freedom of Information requests have revealed the details of Afghanistan civilian deaths. We have even seen the compensation Afghan civilians have received from the MoD.

The Guardian has created interactive map displays of the region, using the wikileaks Afghanistan war log data.

There are also interactive guides to the people affected by the conflict, and their insider views.

Over the 10 years Guardian datablog readers have created some insightful graphic displays of the situation in Afghanistan.

On the 10 year anniversary of conflict we have selected the key data where the datablog has focussed on Afghanistan to make more sense of the war. These are key facts that help to make the conflict a little clearer. Click the headings to read more on each.

Afghanistan deaths by US state interactive. Click image to see it

Which US states have been hit worst by the war in Afghanistan? Over 1,600 Americans have died in the country since 2001 and we wanted to examine the impact on lives in the US. We've collected this data from the US official casualty site (it also includes figures for each state of deaths in Iraq). It shows that Texas and California have lost the most people in Afghanistan - 103 and 120 by the end of May this year. They have also had the most wounded - 836 and 951, respectively. But they are also the most populous states and if you look at deaths per capita, a different picture emerges, with tiny Maine hit the hardest - 1.52 deaths per 100,000 people.

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Afghanistan civilian casualties statistics. Click image for full graphic. Illustration: Jenny Ridley for the Guardian

The Taliban and other anti-government elements have been blamed for 2,080 civilians who were killed in Afghanistan last year - a sharp rise of 28% on 2009. This accounted for 75% of all deaths whereas pro-government forces totalled 440 civilian killings.

Suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have killed the most Afghan civilians according to the UN, with 1,141 losing their life as a result. In what the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan name the most 'alarming trend' is the 462 civilians that were assassinated by anti-government elements - up a huge 105% from 2009. Southern Afghanistan witnessed half of these with Helmand province and Kandahar province proving the most dangerous.

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Interactive guide to the Wikileaks Afghanistan data. Click image to see it

When Wikileaks released 92,000 leaked records from the war in Afghanistan, they shed a new light on the conflict. Suddenly (at least until the 391,000 Iraq documents were released) this became the most-documented war in history with detailed records of each incident involving coalition forces. As the data was structured we have mapped it here - and you can download it to compare casualties by civilians, coalition forces, Afghan forces and the Taliban and where they happened.

We have also used the data to map every IED attack. There's an interactive version too here. They show how the south - where British and Canadian troops have been based - was the focus for attacks on Western forces.

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German soldiers patrol in Mazar-i-Sharif. Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AFP/Getty Images

There are 132,457 Nato troops in Afghanistan - a 51% increase on the summer of 2009. 90,000 of them are from the US, which has another 10,000 there under its direct control. But who are the other partners? Britain is the second biggest, with 9,500, followed by Germany with 4,812. All of these numbers are big increases on the size of forces in 2009. So, what will happen if tens of thousands of US troops leave? The other Nato countries are preparing to leave too. Perhaps the most interesting numbers are at the bottom of the scale - with boots on the ground from Ireland, Luxembourg, Singapore and the Ukraine.

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An Army Anaesthetist treats a soldier from the Grenadier Guards at the British Army Field Hospital at Camp Bastion in a location in the desert in Helmand Province Photograph: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images



It's not that long ago that 300 British forces personnel had died in Afghanistan. Today, with the latest casualties, that figure is up to 374. British forces have been redeployed to other parts of Helmand Province from Sangin, where over 200 British soldiers died. 2009 was previously the bloodiest year so far for British troops in Afghanistan. 2010 nearly caught up. But this year, with the deployment of US troops to Helmand, things had seemed to quieten down.

As the number of British deaths in Afghanistan nears 400 - now much higher than Iraq and even the Falklands conflict - these are the numbers of British fatalities for Afghanistan - and Iraq, too - updated as they change. We have also added in the latest amputation figures for British soldiers.

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Refugee statistics from the UNHCR: click image to get the interactive map

The annual report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was out this week and there is one particularly striking fact: Afghanistan continues to be the prime country with the most refugees under UNHCR responsibility across the globe. There are three million Afghan refugees, one out of three of the total worldwide number. Very few make it to the West. The UNHCR says that "by the end of 2010, three quarters of the world's refugees were residing in a country neighbouring their own" - neighbouring Pakistan and Iran were the refuge for over 2.7m Afghans in 2010.

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Click image for big graphic. Gen Stanley McChrystal, leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy Illustration: PA

This is the Microsoft PowerPoint slide which drove US military General Stanley McChrystal to declare that "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war" at a briefing in Kabul. It led to big questions about the world's reliance on the presentation software but illustrated the challenge facing Nato there. Click the image to see it.

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