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She was the first Canadian female soldier to die in combat. [9] On 4 September the same year, Olympic athlete Private Mark Anthony Graham from the 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment was killed when two US A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft strafed Canadian troops in a friendly fire incident. More than 30 other Canadian soldiers ...
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
On 1 December 2009, the US president announced a major troop increase that sent another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. [20] The Canadian troops remained mostly active in the Panjwai and Kandahar districts, where they were located at the end of 2009. [citation needed] Canadians were also active in the Zhari and Daman districts. [21]
The names of soldiers killed in Afghanistan were not engraved onto the memorial before the unveiling, as officials wanted to wait for the official end to the war in Afghanistan before including them. After the withdrawal of Canadian troops in 2014, the project head, Major Peter Boyle, expressed a desire to have those names included in time for ...
On Aug. 26, Taliban terrorists killed 13 Americans soldiers and more than 170 Afghans at Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. The attack came during the final days of the ...
Pages in category "Canadian military personnel killed in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally expressed remorse that the Biden administration had not done more to protect the 13 US troops who were killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing during ...