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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. [32] August 26, 2021 – Thirteen U.S. service members from the US Marine Corps, US Navy and US Army were killed in a suicide bombing attack [33] during evacuations at the Kabul airport.
The 13 fallen service members were Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, Cpl. Hunter Lopez, Cpl. Daegan W. Page, Cpl ...
The Radio Tele Luxembourg reporter was one of five journalists who were attacked while riding a tank while reporting. Three were killed and two survived the attack. [24] 11 November 2001: Johanne Sutton: Dasht-e Qaleh: The Radio France International was the first female journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan. Killed in the same tank attack ...
Gee and 12 other U.S. Marine Corps service members were killed August 26, 2021 in a terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed more than 170 people. The soldiers have ...
An additional 19 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan as a result of accidents or non-combat circumstances; 6 in vehicle accidents, 3 unspecified non-combat-related deaths, 3 suicide deaths, 2 in a helicopter crash, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots and 1 death from an illness.
President Biden forced the grieving relatives of Marines killed in Afghanistan to wait for hours while he napped on Air Force One, multiple family members said.
The dead Americans were identified as eleven Marines, one soldier from 8th Psychological Operations Group, and one Navy corpsman. [ 5 ] [ 14 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] The American deaths were the first U.S. service deaths in Afghanistan since February 2020 and were the largest single loss of life of U.S. military personnel since the 2011 Afghanistan ...
On 26 September 2010, British aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. She was working in the country as regional director for Development Alternatives Incorporated, a contractor for US and other government agencies. The group were taken to the ...