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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]
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] Insurgents planted 14,661 IEDs in 2010, a 62% increase over the previous year.
As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [94] e. ^ Korean War : Note: [ 20 ] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their ...
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.
[178] [179] In the first five months of 2008, the number of US troops in Afghanistan increased by over 80% with a surge of 21,643 more troops, bringing the total from 26,607 in January to 48,250 in June. [180] On 4 March 2007, US Marines killed at least 12 civilians and injured 33 in Shinwar district, Nangarhar, [181] in a
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 ...
On the anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the tragedy of 13 service members killed at the Kabul airport, I am tortured by the death of my husband Chris and the destruction of ...
April 1, 2008 – An American contractor was killed in an accident in Kabul. [citation needed] April 12, 2008 – Two Indian road engineers were killed by two suicide bombers in Nimroz province. [47] May 7, 2008 – A U.S. tribal customs contractor, Michael Bhatia, was killed, along with two US soldiers, by a roadside bomb in Khost province. [48]