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An independent British-American group, the Iraq Body Count project (IBC project) compiles reported Iraqi civilian deaths resulting from war since the 2003 invasion and ensuing insurgency and civil war, including those caused directly by coalition military action, Iraqi military actions, the Iraqi insurgency, and those resulting from excess crime.
North Korea {Cold War} 1959: 1968–69; 1976; 1984 killed 41; Wounded 5; 82 captured/released. [100] USS Liberty incident 1967 killed 34; Wounded 173 by Israeli armed forces. Vietnam War prior to 1964-US Casualties were Laos – 2 killed in 1954; and Vietnam 1946–1954 – 2 killed see; [101] f. ^ Iraq War.
Lori Piestewa. Lori Ann Piestewa (/ paɪˈɛstəwɑː / py-ES-tə-wah; [2] December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War. A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Piestewa's friend Jessica Lynch were injured.
August 31, 2024 at 4:01 PM. Susan Walsh/AP/File. Seven US troops were injured in a raid in Iraq on Thursday that killed 15 ISIS members, three defense officials said. Five of the personnel were ...
After the United States in June 2014 started to send troops to Iraq to secure American interests and assets and advise the Iraqi forces (see section U.S. surveillance and military advising in Iraq), President Barack Obama end of September planned to send 1,600 troops to Iraq as "advisers" to the Iraqi Army and Kurdish forces. 800 of them would ...
Jesse V. Spielman (as a lookout) The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the ...
Purple Heart Medal. National Defense Service Medal. Iraq Campaign Medal. David Emanuel Hickman (January 16, 1988 – November 14, 2011), was the last American soldier killed in the Iraq War. [1] David Hickman was born on January 16, 1988, and was a lifelong resident of Greensboro, North Carolina. He graduated from Northeast High School in 2006.
Killing of Qusay and Uday Hussein. Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on July 22, 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them, but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended ...