Up To 507,000 People Killed In US-Initiated Wars Since 2001 - Report

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published November 15, 2018 | 12:36 AM

Up to 507,000 people have been killed in the US-initiated wars in three countries after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, according to a report released by Brown University' Cost of War Project.

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th November, 2018) Up to 507,000 people have been killed in the US-initiated wars in three countries after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, according to a report released by Brown University' Cost of War Project.

"Between 480,000 and 507,000 people have been killed in the United States' post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan," the report said.

The report explained that the tally of the counts and estimates of direct deaths caused by war violence does not include the more than 500,000 deaths from the war in Syria. While the war in Syria raged since 2011, the United States joined the conflict in August 2014.

The report said a total of 147,000 fatalities - including those among US military and other allied troops, civilians, opposition forces and others - occurred in Afghanistan between October 2001 and October 2018,.

About 65,000 deaths were caused by war violence in conflict zones in Pakistan and some 295,000 deaths were caused by war violence in Iraq, the report said.

Nearly 7,000 United States military personnel have been killed in the wars and more than 53,700 have been listed as wounded, according to the report.

Suicide among the veterans of these wars stood at more than 6,000 per year from 2008-2016.

The US wars have also accounted for the displacement of more than 12 million people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria in 2017, the report pointed out.

The post-September 11 military campaign, also known as the War on Terror, was launched by former US President George W. Bush after the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States.

The Congressional Research Service has since 2015 stopped releasing updates on these wars.