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Overall, the war killed an estimated 176,000–212,000+ people, including 46,319 civilians. [90] While more than 5.7 million former refugees returned to Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion, [91] by the time the Taliban returned to power in 2021, 2.6 million Afghans remained refugees, [92] while another 4 million were internally displaced. [93] [94]
May 3, 2013 – Three US Air Force crew members were killed when their KC-135R crashed in Kyrgyzstan while on a combat air refueling mission to Afghanistan. May 4, 2013 – Seven U.S. service members were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. [28] November 27, 2018 - Three U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan blast. [29]
In 2001, Afghanistan had been at war for over 20 years. [14] The communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in 1978, and its policies sparked a popular uprising. [15] The Soviet Union, sensing PDPA weakness, intervened in 1979 to support the regime. [16]
This is a list of known code names and related information for military operations associated with the war, including operations to airlift citizens of coalition countries and at-risk Afghan civilians from Afghanistan as the war drew to a close.
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) recorded 1,462 Afghan civilian deaths in the American-led war in the first six months of 2011, a jump of 15% over the number killed in the same period in 2010. In 6% of the deaths, UNAMA and AIHRC were unable to clearly attribute the ...
American people of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (1 C, 7 P) M. Military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (17 C, 8 P) W.
In 2010, IED attacks in Afghanistan wounded 3,366 U.S. soldiers, which is nearly 60% of the total IED-wounded since the start of the war. [9] Of the 711 foreign soldiers killed in 2010, 630 were killed in action. 368 of those were killed by IEDs, which is around 36% of the total IED-killed since the start of the war to date. [ 1 ]
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