‘Everything changed’: The human cost of 25 years of US wars
In this January 28, 2012 photo, US soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), patrol west of Kabul, Afghanistan [File: Hoshang Hashimi/AP Photo]Iraq: 315,000 direct war deathsLess than two years later, on March 19, 2003, the US launched its invasion of Iraq.
According to the Cost of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs estimates that US-led wars since 2001 have directly or indirectly killed an estimated 4.
Less than a month after 9/11, the US invaded Afghanistan, launching what President George W Bush called the “War on Terror” - a series of seemingly endless wars and military campaigns spanning Afghanistan, Iraq and countries across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.
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