A Third of All US Casualties in Eight-Year Afghan War Have

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!!!! icasualties.org www.cnsnews.com More than 300 US soldiers have died in the war in Afghanistan since May 15, 2009, the day when the first major wave of new troops ordered by President Barack Obama arrived in the country. The 308 US casualties in Afghanistan since then account for about a third of the total of 920 US casualties in the eight-year war. Of the 308 soldiers who have died since mid-May 2009, 287 were killed by enemy action, according to a CNSNews.com database of all casualties in the Afghanistan theatre of war. The southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar located along the Afghan border with Pakistan have been the deadliest regions for US soldiers since President Obama's escalation in US forces in the region began. Approximately 81 US soldiers have died in combat in Helmand and 58 in Kandahar, for a total of 139 in those two provinces. That is about 45 percent of the US casualties in Afghanistan since May 15 of last year. On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama ordered the deployment of 17000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The main body of those troops arrived in Kandahar on May 15, 2009. Thank you everyone for subscribing! Facebook: bit.ly Twitter: twitter.com Revolutionary Roundtable Group: www.youtube.com Website: www.globalgovernmentnewscorp.blogspot.com

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