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Thus, a total of 2,402 United States servicemen were killed in the war in Afghanistan. [1] The website iCasualties.org lists 2,455 servicemembers and 10 CIA operatives as having died in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom's Sentinel, including 49 who died in support of other OEF operations. This gives a total of 2,406 deaths of ...
The United States has conducted two withdrawals of United States troops from Afghanistan: Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016), draw down of United States Armed Forces in the Afghanistan war; 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, withdrawal of all United States combat forces from Afghanistan
In 2014, U.S. president Barack Obama announced that the US would withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, concluding Operation Enduring Freedom. [17] [32] [33] Although significant numbers of U.S. troops were withdrawn by 2014 and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had concluded, 9,800 US soldiers remained deployed inside of Afghanistan during Operation Freedom's ...
Clockwise from top-left: American troops in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in Kunar Province; An American F-15E Strike Eagle dropping 2000 pound JDAMs on a cave in eastern Afghanistan; an Afghan soldier surveying atop a Humvee; Afghan and American soldiers move through snow in Logar Province; victorious Taliban fighters after securing Kabul; an Afghan soldier surveying a valley in Parwan ...
United States invasion of Grenada: 1983 18 1 19 119 138 [71] 1986 United States bombing of Libya: 1986 2 0 2 0 1 [72] United States invasion of Panama: 1989 23 23 324 347 [71] Gulf War: 1990–1991 149 145 294 849 1,143 2 [73] [74] Operation Provide Comfort: 1991–1996 1 18 19 4 23 [75] [76] Operation Restore Hope: 1992–1993 29 14 43 153 196 ...
Aug. 26, 2021 — Islamic State group suicide bombers and gunmen kill over 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops in an attack on the crowds trying to be evacuated at Kabul’s airport. March 23, 2022 ...
The ceremony took place two days after the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 345-page report on the fiasco that ended America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan.
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.