The Count
07/22/2010
As of Tuesday, day 3,209 of the war in Afghanistan and day 2,663 of the war in Iraq …
1,102 American military service members (26 more than last week) have died in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001, and 4,416 (the same as last week) have died in Iraq since that war began in 2003, according to the US Defense Department.
2014 is the year Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) wants foreign soldiers to withdraw so his country’s forces can assume control of security, BBC reported. Karzai renewed his call for the 2014 deadline during a 1-day, 70-country conference in Kabul.
155 British troops were killed in the past 60 weeks, but 152 troops were killed in the preceding 152 weeks, University of Cambridge researchers found, according to The Guardian. More than 50 percent of the casualties were killed by improvised explosive devices.
3 US soldiers remain stateside to support every 1 soldier deployed overseas, but some soldiers who enlisted in the wake of 9/11 say they are disappointed they never made it to a combat zone, BBC reported. “It’s always hard for me to tell people I wasn’t deployed. Conversations usually end up with ‘so what did you do then?’” former Marine Itzak Lefler said.
— Compiled by Jake Armstrong
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