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Between 7 October 2001 and 30 August 2021, the United States lost a total of 2,459 military personnel in Afghanistan. Of this figure, 1,922 had been killed in action. An additional 20,769 were wounded in action. [1] 18 operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency were also killed during the conflict. [2] Further, there were 1,822 civilian ...
The largest number of soldiers killed was when French troops were ambushed in the area of Sirobi, some 50 km (31 mi) east of Kabul, in August 2008. Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded in the attack – the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2001.
Names. This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan[94]in order to distinguish it from the country's various other wars,[95]notably the ongoing Afghan conflictof which it was a part,[96]and the Soviet–Afghan War.
In addition to the American service members, 168 Afghans were killed in the bombing as they tried to get on board evacuation flights out of the war-torn country.
Afghan private security guard losses. 2013. March 1 – Seven PMCs were killed by a roadside bomb in Konar province. [54] 2009. February 5 – Six PMCs, guarding the governor of Musa Qala district, were killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand province. [55] March 19 – Three PMCs, guarding an Afghan lawmaker, were killed by a roadside bomb in ...
The United States has completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, following a chaotic airlift nearly 20 years after it invaded the country in ...
The Biden administration’s surprise announcement of an unconditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 appears to strip the Taliban and the Afghan government of considerable leverage ...
Counterinsurgency: The largest military offensive ever launched by NATO troops in Afghanistan to clear the city of Taliban militants and drug traffickers eliminating the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand. It involved US Marine units and Afghan troops along with the US Special Forces and other ISAF members [16] Operation Mountain Blizzard ...