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January 11, 2020 – Two U.S. service members were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. [31] January 27, 2020 – Two US Air Force crew members were killed when an E-11A aircraft crashed; February 8, 2020 – Two U.S. Special Operations Soldiers were killed and six service members wounded from an insider "Green on Blue" attack in Nangarhar ...
Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger.It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair, [4] in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne ...
The ceremony took place two days after the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 345-page report on the fiasco that ended America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan.
In June 2008, British prime minister Gordon Brown announced the number of British troops serving in Afghanistan would increase to 8,030 - A rise of 230 personnel. [9] The same month, however, the UK lost its 100th serviceman killed in the war since 2001, [10] reflecting the nature of the ferocious fighting in Helmand.
U.S. congressional leaders on Tuesday posthumously awarded the congressional gold medal to 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Kabul's airport during the chaotic U.S ...
At a Capitol Hill news conference, some family members of the 13 U.S. troops killed at the Kabul airport warn against the vice president being elected to the top job.
Bomb Patrol Afghanistan (U.S. G4 TV series, 17 episodes, 2011–2012) Endgame Afghanistan (British ITV Tonight TV episode, 17-02-2011) Hooligans At War (documentary, 2011) Norway At War: Mission Afghanistan (TV series, 6 episodes 2011) War for Peace (Swedish TV series, 6 episodes, 2011) Our War: 10 Years in Afghanistan (BBC TV series, 6 ...
Nearly 60,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam, and about 3,000 in Afghanistan. At the war's height, half a million U.S. troops were in Vietnam; the number in Afghanistan reached 100,000 for about ...