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Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly. Estimating war-related deaths poses many challenges.
On 29 April, the US had its first confirmed death, [316] and on 5 May the first US citizen died from swine flu. [317] On 6 June, there were 17 confirmed deaths from swine flu in the US. [318] By mid-May 2009 many states had abandoned testing unless serious illness and/or hospitalization were present. [319]
Ottoman casualties of World War I were the civilian and military casualties sustained by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Almost 1.5% of the Ottoman population, or approximately 300,000 people of the Empire's 21 million population in 1914, [1] were estimated to have been killed during the war. Of the total 300,000 casualties ...
After the use of the Zimbabwean dollar ceased on 12 April 2009, [47] the dong was the second least valued currency unit after the Iranian rial as of 28 November 2014. Since 19 June 2014, the Vietnamese dong has been devalued a total of five times in an effort to help spur exports and to ensure the stability of the currency. [48]
Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo. Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May 2021, [1] and approximately 617,910 as of March 2024. [2]
Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the War in Donbas, [1] and up to 1,000,000 estimated casualties during the Russian invasion of Ukraine till mid-September 2024.
Many Abangans were supporters of the Communist Party, [92] [93] [94] and their interests were thus supported by the PKI. [95] They subsequently made up most of the people who were slaughtered in the killings. [96] [97] Abangans were targeted for attacks by Ansor, the youth wing of Nahdlatul Ulama and the Santri with help from the Indonesian Army.
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, along with his brothers in arms and their indigenous allies, captured the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, at the ...