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As of March 27 2009, there have been 1,061 coalition deaths in Afghanistan as part of ongoing coalition operations (Operation Enduring Freedom and ISAF) since the U.S. invasion in 2001. In this total, the American figure is for deaths "In and Around Afghanistan" which, as defined by the U.S. Department of Defense, includes some deaths in Pakistan and Uzbekistan and the deaths of four CIA operatives.

In addition to these deaths in Afghanistan, 62 Spanish soldiers returning from Afghanistan were killed in Turkey on May 26, 2003 when their plane crashed. Also, three members of the German GSG 9 special police forces were killed by a roadside bomb, since they are not military they are not included in the total.

During the first five years of the war, the vast majority of coalition deaths were American, but in 2006, 2007 and 2008 a significant proportion were amongst other nations, particularly the United Kingdom and Canada which have been assigned responsibility for the flashpoint provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, respectively. This is due to the fact that in 2006, ISAF expanded its jurisdiction to the southern regions of Afghanistan which were previously under the direct authority of the U.S. military.

With 294 Operation Enduring Freedom and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) deaths in 2008, the past year was the deadliest for foreign military troops since the U.S. invasion in 2001, continuing the trend that has occurred every year since 2003.

In 2008, there were 3,276 improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in Afghanistan, a 45% increase over 2007, and a record for the war. In the first two months of 2009, attacks with IEDs have killed 36 foreign troops, triple the number for the same period in 2008.

Details regarding the fatalities

American

Of the American deaths, 449 have died in hostile action and 159 in non-hostile incidents. Included in these numbers are four CIA operatives that were killed in Afghanistan, two in an ambush, one in a prison uprising in November 2001, and one in an accident. It should be noted that this reported number of US deaths is by seven higher than the DoD's tally.

As of March 17, 2009, 2,737 American soldiers have been wounded in action in Afghanistan, with 1,770 not returning to duty.

Australian

The Australian forces in Afghanistan have suffered ten fatalities. More than 60 soldiers have been wounded.

British

As of March 16, 2009, the British forces have suffered 152 fatalities, and upwards of 900 combat injuries of varying degree. The vast majority of fatalities have taken place since the redeployment of British forces to the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province in 2006, as only 5 men died between April 2002 and early March 2006. 123 fatalities were killed as a result of hostile action, while 29 are known to have died either as a result of illness, non-combat injuries or accidents, or have not yet officially been assigned a cause of death pending the outcome of an investigation.

Canadian

Canada's role in Afghanistan, consisting of operations against the Taliban and other insurgents in southern Afghanistan (Kandahar Province), has resulted in the largest number of fatal casualties for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War. A total of 115 members of the Canadian Forces have died in Afghanistan between February 2002 and March 20, 2009. Of these, 97 were due to enemy actions, including 64 due to IED's or landmines, 22 due to RPG, small arms or mortar fire, and 11 due to suicide bomb attacks. Six Canadian soldiers died due to friendly fire, while an additional 12 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan as a result of accidents or non-combat circumstances; 6 in vehicle accidents, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots, 1 suicide death, and 1 unspecified non-combat-related death. More than 350 soldiers have been wounded since 2006.

In addition to these troop deaths in Afghanistan, 1 Canadian soldier was found dead of non-combat-related causes at Camp Mirage, a forward logistics base in the United Arab Emirates near Dubai.

Danish

Denmark's first 3 deaths were the result of an accident during the disposal of a Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile in 2002. With a new mandate issued by the Danish parliament in 2006, Danish military operations have transformed from relatively safe non-combat operations in the centre of the country to combat operations alongside the British contingent in the violent Southern Helmand province. 17 soldiers have been killed in various hostile engagements or as a result of friendly fire, and 6 have been killed in non-combat related incidents, bringing the number of Danish casualties to 23. This makes Denmark the country with the heaviest casualties relative to population. This list has two more casualties than the official defence fatality list, because the latter is disregarding non-operational, non-combat casualties (notes below).

Rank, name, date and place of casualties:

• Private First Class Sebastian La Cour Holm, 19. December 2008, Gereshk, Helmand, Afghanistan
• Private First Class Benjamin D.S. Rasmussen, 19. December 2008, Gereshk, Helmand, Afghanistan
• Sergeant Jacob Moe Jensen, 19. December 2008, Gereshk, Helmand, Afghanistan
• Lance Corporal Dan Gyde, 4. December 2008, Gereshk, Helmand, Afghanistan
• Private First Class Jacob Grønnegaard Gade, 4. December 2008, Gereshk, Helmand, Afghanistan
• Sergeant First Class Henrik Christian Christiansen, 25, August 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Lance Corporal Jesper Gilbert Pedersen, 25. July 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Lance Corporal Christian Raaschou, 31. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Private First Class Anders Bjørn Storgaard, 26. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Captain Christian Jørgen Grundt Damholt, 17. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Warrant Officer Second Class Sonny Kappel Jakobsen, 17. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Warrant Officer Second Class Jens Mathias Petersen, 13. March 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Private First Class Morten Krogh Jensen, 24. February 2008, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Private First Class Mark Visholm, 29. November 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Private First Class Casper Alexander Cramer, 29. November 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Major Anders Johan Stæhr Storrud, 16. October 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Private First Class Thorbjørn Ole Reese, 26. September 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Private First Class Mikkel Keil Sørensen, 26. September 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• First Lieutenant Steen Rønn Sørensen, 3. May 2007, Helmand, Afghanistan.
• Sergeant First Class (name not released), 3. December 2004, Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Sergeant First Class Thomas Kruse Butzkowsky, 6. March 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Lance Corporal Kim Carlsen, 6. March 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan.
• Lance Corporal Brian Juul Nørløv Andersen, 6. March 2002, Kabul, Afghanistan.

: Died from over-exertion during training. Not included in the official defence fatality list.
: Committed suicide. Not included in the official defence fatality list.

Dutch

The first two Dutch fatalities were soldiers killed in an accidental helicopter crash in 2006. Since then, 1 pilot died in a non-hostile F-16 crash, and 1 soldier committed suicide at Kamp Holland. In 2007, 1 soldier was accidentally killed when a Patria armoured vehicle overturned at a river crossing near Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan. After that 13 soldiers were killed in action in the rest of 2007 and in 2008.

Estonian

In June 2007, two Estonian soldiers as part of NATO ISAF forces were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan. On the 23rd of May, 2008, a soldier from the Estonian NSE-5 support element died from non-combat injuries.

French

A total of 27 French soldiers have been killed thus far. 22 soldiers have been killed in action, three in vehicle accidents and two have been killed in unexplained circumstances.

The largest number of soldiers killed was when French troops were ambushed in the area of Sirobi, some 50 km (30 miles) east of Kabul, in August 2008. Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded in an attack - the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2002.

The 10 troops killed were:

• Sergent-chef Sébastien Devez
• Caporal-chef Damien Buil
• Caporal-chef Nicolas Gregoire
• 1ère classe Kevin Chassaing
• 1ère classe Damien Gaillet
• 1ère classe Julien Lepahun
• 1ère classe Anthony Riviere
• 1ère classe Alexis Taani
• CCH Penon
• Pvt Melam Baouma

German

A total of 31 German servicemen have been killed, of which 18 by hostile activities. 100 troops have been wounded in action.

Italian

Six Italian soldiers have been killed in action, two were killed in vehicle accidents, one due to an accidental weapon discharge, one was to an unknown non-hostile death, one due to natural causes, one died a week after being shot (he was wounded during a raid to rescue him after being captured) and a general defense staff officer was killed in an accidental airplane crash.

Polish

Nine Polish soldiers have been killed in action and one was killed in a vehicle accident.

Romanian

Ten Romanian soldiers have been killed in action in Afghanistan. More than 30 Romanian soldiers have been wounded in action.

South Korean

Two South Korean soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, one shot by accident in an argument on January 29, 2003, and another killed by a suicide bomber on August 31, 2007.

Spanish

Of the Spanish deaths, 17 were killed in August 2005 when the Eurocopter Cougar helicopter they were travelling in crashed, four were killed in three separate attacks by insurgents, one died of a heart attack, and one died in a vehicle accident. Another 62 died in a Yak-42 plane crash in Turkey on their way back to Spain from Afghanistan.

Out-of-country deaths related to the war

In addition to the 608 American deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, another 26 U.S. soldiers died in: Kuwait, Bahrain, Khazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Arabian sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, while supporting operations in Afghanistan. A civilian DoD employee was also killed in action while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Also, a Canadian soldier was found dead of non-combat-related causes at Camp Mirage, a forward logistics base in the United Arab Emirates near Dubai.

List of deaths of Europian soldiers*

Note: This list doesn't include British soldiers killed since they are listed in a separate article and includes two non-Europian servicemen (South Koreans).

2002

• March 6, 2002 - Three Danish soldiers, Sergeant First Class Thomas Kruse Butzkowsky, Lance Corporal Kim Carlsen, and Lance Corporal Brian Juul Nørløv Andersen, and two German soldiers, Oberfeldwebel Tomas Kochert and Oberfeldwebel Mike Rubel, were killed when defusing a Surface-to-Air-Missile failed. The missile accidentally exploded.
• December 21, 2002 - Seven members of the German Luftwaffe, Hauptmann Friedrich Deininger, Oberleutnant Uwe Vierling, Hauptfeldwebel Bernhard Kaiser, Hauptfeldwebel Thomas Schiebel, Hauptfeldwebel Heinz-Ullrich Hewußt, Stabsunteroffizier Frank Ehrlich, and Hauptgefreiter Enrico Schmidt, died when their CH-53GS helicopter crashed in Kabul. The exact reason for the crash, which was first thought to be enemy fire, turned out to be a mechanical failure concerning the Swashplate of the aircraft.

2003

• January 29, 2003 - A South Korean officer, Kim Hyo-sung, 33, was shot dead by a fellow officer for not following an order to speak quietly on the telephone.
• March 20, 2003 - A German soldier, Captain Holger Nippus, died in a non-combat related incident.
• March 17, 2003 - A German soldier, Major Alexander Hofert, died in a non-combat related incident.
• May 29, 2003 - One German soldier, Stabsgefreiter Stefan Kamins, died and one suffered injuries when the vehicle they were travelling in struck a landmine. They had been on a reconnaissance mission in the south of Kabul.
• June 7, 2003 - Four German soldiers, Oberfeldwebel Carsten Kuehlmorgen, Feldwebel Helmi Jimenez-Paradis, Oberfähnrich Andreas Beljo, and Stabsunteroffizier Joerg Baasch, from the NATO-led ISAF died when a suicide car bomb detonated beside the bus they were travelling in. The explosion left another 29 Germans wounded.
• November 11, 2003 - Two Romanian soldiers, 2nd Lt. Mihail Anton Samuila and 2nd Lt. Iosif-Silviu Fogorasi, were killed when their convoy was attacked near Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, along the Pakistan border.

2004

• May 23, 2004 - A Norwegian Army soldier, Grenadier Tommy Rødningsby, 29, was killed in an RPG attack in Kabul.
• October 3, 2004 - An Italian soldier, Corporal Major Giovanni Bruno, 23, from the "Susa" battalion (Third Alpini Regiment of the Alpine Brigade Taurinense) was killed and four others injured when their Puma 6x6 armored vehicle overturned near Kabul.
• October 17, 2004 - A German soldier, Lance Corporal Silvio Schattmann, died in a non-combat related incident.
• December 4, 2004 - A Danish soldier, name undisclosed, of 49 years of age took his own life in the Danish camp Camp Viking in Kabul.

2005

• February 3, 2005 - An Italian naval officer, Commander Bruno Vianini, died when a Kam Air Boeing 737-200 crashed while flying from Herat to Kabul in Afghanistan.
• April 24, 2005 - A Romanian soldier, Sergeant Narcis Sonei, was killed when a Romanian armored personnel carrier struck a mine in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.
• June 25, 2005 - Two German soldiers, Master Sergeant Andreas Heine and Sergeant 1st Class Christian Schlotterhose, were killed when explosives they had seized were detonated by hostile forces.
• August 7, 2005 - A German soldier, Lance Corporal Boris Nowitzki, was killed in a vehicle accident.
• November 14, 2005 - A German soldier, Lt. Col. Armin Franz, was killed and three others badly wounded in a suicide bomb blast.
• November 18, 2005 - One Portuguese soldier, Sgt. João Paulo Roma Pereira, was killed and two others wounded in an explosion in Kabul.
• November 25, 2005 - A Swedish Special Forces soldier, Jesper Lindblom, 28, was killed and two others were wounded in an IED attack on a Swedish convoy.
• December 9, 2005 - A Swedish Special Forces soldier, Tomas Bergkvist, 30, died in hospital from the wounds he sustained in the IED attack of November 25 after two weeks in coma.

2006

• May 5, 2006 - Two Italian soldiers were killed and 3 others wounded in an IED attack on their convoy in Kabul.
• June 20, 2006 - A Romanian soldier, 2nd Lieutenant Gheorghita Ionel Dragusanu, 38, was killed by a roadside bomb near Kandahar.
• August 24, 2006 - Two members of the French Special Forces were killed in hostile action.
• September 20, 2006 - An Italian soldier, Alpini Corporal Giuseppe Orlando, 28, was killed and two others injured when their Puma armored vehicle overturned.
• December 17, 2006 - A German soldier, Sergeant 1st Class Christian Kopp, was killed while handling live ammunition.

2007

• February 27, 2007 - A South Korean soldier, Sergeant Yoon Jang-ho, was killed in a suicide bomb attack at Bagram Air Base.
• April 6, 2007 - A Dutch soldier was accidentally killed when a Patria armoured vehicle overturned at a river crossing near Tarin Kowt, crushing him under the vehicle. Robert Donkers, 33, was from Kerkrade.
• April 20, 2007 - A member of a Dutch dismounted patrol, Cor Strik, 21, from Tiger Company, a Dutch airborne infantry unit, was killed by a landmine less than two kilometres from Forward Operating Base Robinson in the Sangin River valley.
• May 3, 2007 - A Danish soldier, 1st Lieutenant Steen Rønn Sørensen, 24, died of his injuries in Denmark's first combat death in Afghanistan. He had been shot in the neck Sunday April 29 when Danish troops were attacked near Camp Bastion in the southern Helmand province.
• May 7, 2007 - A 28-year-old Czech ISAF soldier died in a mudslide that hit his vehicle some 30 kilometres southeast of the seat of the reconstruction team of ISAF multinational forces in Faizabad, north Afghanistan.
• May 19, 2007 - 3 German soldiers and a number of afghan civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kunduz province, Northern Afghanistan. 2 German soldiers were also wounded along with a dozen locals.
• May 23, 2007 - A Finnish ISAF soldier, Petri Tapio Immonen, 29, was killed in a bomb blast that took place near NATO's ISAF-base located in Maimana. 2 Norwegian soldiers were wounded in the attack.
• May 27, 2007 - A Spanish ISAF soldier, Juan Antonio Abril Sánchez, 31, died while on patrol when the URO VAMTAC all-terrain vehicle in which he was travelling overturned accidentally in the Qades district of Bagdhis province, around 25 km north of the Spanish provincial construction team base (PRT) in Qala i Naw.
• June 15, 2007 - A Dutch ISAF soldier, Timo Smeehuijzen, 20, was killed by a suicide car bombing in Tirin Kot in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan. The car was driven out of a side street and detonated near a Dutch armoured car in a NATO convoy, also killing four Afghan men and five children.
• June 15, 2007 - A Dutch soldier, Jos Leunissen, 44, was killed and three others wounded in an accident while fighting Taliban soldiers near the town of Chora. The soldier was apparently killed by one of the Dutch mortar grenades that were fired by his own unit but exploded sooner than expected.
• June 23, 2007 - 2 Estonian soldiers, Kalle Torn, 24, and Jako Karuks, 33, were killed while on a mine clearing mission near Sangin by a 107-mm missile attack that also injured four other soldiers.
• July 13, 2007 - A Dutch soldier, Tom Krist, 24, died in hospital of the wounds he sustained three days earlier in a suicide bomb attack in Deh Rawod, Uruzgan province on July 10.
• July 23, 2007 - Norwegian Army Ranger Command lieutenant Tor Arne Lau-Henriksen, 33, was killed in a short and intense close quarters engagement between a Norwegian special forces reconnaissance patrol and hostile fighters in Lowgar Province.
• July 25, 2007 - A French soldier, Pascal Correia, 40, was killed in a rocket attack on Afghan army quarters southwest of Kabul in the province of Warduk where he was training a unit of the Afghan army.
• August 14, 2007 - A Polish, soldier, Lukasz Kurowski, 28, was killed in an exchange of fire some 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of a base in the city of Gardez.
• August 15, 2007 - Three German police officers were killed when the vehicle they were travelling in was blown up by an IED on a road to Jalalabad, not far from Kabul.
• August 23, 2007 - A French soldier, Stéphane Rieu, 30, was killed when his light-armoured vehicle overturned on a road near Shakar Darreh.
• August 26, 2007 - A Dutch ISAF soldier, Martijn Rosier, 30, was killed by a roadside improvised explosive device near the town of Deh Rawod in southern Uruzgan province.
• September 6, 2007 - A Romanian soldier, Aurel Marcu, 31, was killed and several others injured when their armored transport vehicle hit a roadside bomb while on patrol in the southern province of Zabul.
• September 8, 2007 - A German soldier, name unreleased, was found dead at his barracks in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan.
• September 20, 2007 - A Dutch soldier, Tim Hoogland, 21, was killed about 5 km north of the town of Deh Rawod in western Uruzgan province when his patrol came under mortar fire.
• September 21, 2007 - A French soldier, Laurent Pican, 34, was killed in a suicide car bomb attack against a French military convoy in the western part of the capital, Kabul.
• September 24, 2007 - Two Spanish soldiers, Stanley Mera Vera, 20, and Germán Pérez Burgos, 33, and an interpreter were killed in a roadside bombing in Shewan, Farah province. Six others were injured, two of them seriously.
• September 26, 2007 - Two Danish ISAF soldiers, Mikkel Keil Sørensen, 24 and Thorbjørn Ole Reese, 22, were killed and another wounded when their base was attacked for several hours in the Upper Gereshk Valley of Helmand province. An investigation is underway to determine whether they were killed by "friendly fire".
• October 4, 2007 - An Italian military intelligence agent, Lorenzo D'Auria, 33, died of wounds sustained during a September 24 rescue operation by ISAF/Coalition troops in Farah province. On September 22, D'Auria and a compatriot were kidnapped in Herat Province.

• October 16, 2007 - A Danish officer, Major Anders Storrud, 34, died in Helmand province of wounds sustained in mortar attack the previous day.
• November 3, 2007 - During operation "Spin Ghar" a Dutch corporal, Ronald Groen, 21, was killed, two others were injured. Their armoured Fennek reconnaissance vehicle hit an IED (improvised explosive device), 5 miles north-east of their base in Poentjak Uruzgan province.
• November 8, 2007 - Norwegian Home Guard soldier Kristoffer Sørli Jørgensen, 22, was killed and one other soldier, 20, severely wounded when the unarmoured Toyota Landcruiser they were driving was hit by an IED near the Norwegian base at Maymana. Both were from the town of Stange in Norway.
• November 24, 2007 - An Italian soldier, Daniele Paladini, 35, and six civilians were killed when a bomber who had strapped explosives around his body detonated himself near the troops' convoy in Kabul's western Paghman district. The suicide attack also injured three other Italian soldiers and nine civilians.
• November 24, 2007 - A Portuguese soldier, Sergio Pedrosa, 22, died at a military hospital in Khost, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when his Humvee accidentally rolled over during an overnight convoy in southern Wardak province.
• November 29, 2007 - Two Danish privates, Casper Alexander Cramer, 21, and Mark Visholm, 22, were killed in hostile actions in the Helmand Green Zone. The two privates were a part of the Danish light recce squadron which were securing the perimeter of a bridge construction site. During an hour long firefight the two privates were fatally wounded.

2008

• January 12, 2008 - Two Dutch soldiers of ISAF, Wesley Schol, 20, and Cpl. Aldert Poortema, 22, died at Deh Rawod, Afghanistan. They were assigned to the 44 Pantserinfanteriebataljon, Johannes Postkazerne, Havelte. Another was wounded, and could lose both legs. This was caused by friendly fire.
• February 13, 2008 - Italian Army warrant officer Giovanni Pezzullo was killed while distributing food and clothes to civilians near Rubdar, 60 km from Kabul; another soldier suffered minor wounds.
• February 24, 2008 - A Danish soldier, Private First Class Morten Krogh Jensen, died in a non-combat incident.
• February 27, 2008 - Two Polish soldiers, Corporal Szymon Slowik, 33, and Private Hubert Kowalewski, 26, were killed when the Humveee they were travelling in struck a landmine. The incident occurred in the Sharan district of Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province, while they were returning to their base after a meeting with villagers.
• March 13, 2008 - A Danish soldier, Jens Mathias Petersen, that suffered a cardiac arrest during a run in Kandahar died in Denmark after being flown back for further treatment.
• March 17, 2008 - Two Danish ISAF soldiers, Sonny Kappel Jakobsen, 45, and Christian Jørgen Grundt Damholt, 33, one Czech ISAF soldier, Šterba Milan, 35, an Afghan translator, and three Afghan civilians were killed by a Taliban suicide car bomb attack on a NATO military convoy in southern Afghanistan. Four other NATO soldiers were wounded in the attack that took place near the bazaar in the town of Gereshk in Helmand province.
• March 20, 2008 - A Romanian soldier, Ionut Cosmin Sandu, 29, was killed and another injured in Zabul province when their Humvee vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device.
• March 26, 2008 - A Danish soldier, Private First Class Christian Raaschou, was killed in action near Gereshk in Helmand province.
• March 31, 2008 - A Danish soldier, Lance Corperal Christian Raaschou, 24, died during evac after being wounded in a Danish-British co-operation near Gereshk in Helmand province.
• April 8, 2008- A Polish soldier, Private First Class Grzegorz Politowski, died of wounds as a result of an explosion during a patrol in Ghazni province.
• April 18, 2008 - Two Dutch soldiers, 1Lt Dennis van Uhm, 23, (son of Peter van Uhm, the Dutch Commander-in-Chief) and private first class Mark Schouwink, 22, were killed when the armoured vehicle where they were in hit an improvised explosive device on a road 12 kilometres out of Kamp Holland in Uruzgan, Afghanistan
• April 30, 2008 - A Czech soldier, Radim Vaculik, 29, died in Logar province after a roadside bomb exploded. Four other soldiers in the Humvee military vehicle were wounded, one of them seriously.
• May 22, 2008 - A Lithuanian soldier, Sgt. Arunas Jarmalavicius, died from a gunshot wound in Ghor province. Civil unrest after reports that American soldiers had used the Koran as a target during training 11 days earlier turned into riots on May 22. A Lithuanian contingent repelling the attacks on the camp killed two and injured 7 rioters. Sgt. Arunas Jarmalavicius was only Lithuania's second casualty in an international peace-keeping mission. Lieutenant Normundas Valteris died 12 years ago in Bosnia.
• May 23, 2008 - An Estonian soldier, Sgt. Maj. Ivar Brok, 30, died of injuries sustained in an accident at the Camp Bastion base.
• June 10, 2008 - A Hungarian soldier was killed in Afghanistan while trying to disarm an IED. In the same incident, another Hungarian soldier was seriously injured. Both soldiers were part of the PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) stationed in Baghlan Province, Northern Afghanistan. Local authorities called for assistance from the Hungarian PRT, as earlier that day another IED was detonated on a dirt road causing a number of civilian casualties. The arriving specialist team was requested to conduct a sweep for additional explosive devices, during which they have located an IED hidden in the thin bushes next to the road. An attempt was made to remotely disarm the explosive device with the US Army's Andros bomb disposal robot, however, due to the size and weight of the device, this was unsuccessful. Sergeant 1st Class Gyula Kovacs, 30, then volunteered to disarm the device and walked up to the bushes where it was hidden. While attempting to attach a hook to the device, in order to pull it out of the bushes, a large explosion took place, in which Sgt. Kovacs was instantly killed. As the investigation revealed, the explosive device was equipped with two triggers, one that was visible and disarmed by Sgt. Kovacs and an additional one, which was capable of receiving radio signals and was hidden underneath the device in the ground and was used to remotely detonate the IED. Sgt. Kocvacs had been with the Hungarian Armed Forces for seven years and was a qualified professional on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
• June 12, 2008 - A Romanian soldier, Marius Claudius Covrig, was killed by a grenade on the Qalat-Kabul highway.
• June 21, 2008 - A Polish platoon commander, Ppor. Robert Marczewski, 28, died when a bomb hit his patrol shortly after midnight in the Dila district of Paktika province.
• July 12, 2008 - A Hungarian soldier, Cpt. Krisztián Nemes, 32, a member of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) was killed and an Afghan policeman was seriously injured near the city of Kunduz in an IED explosion. Explosives expert Cpt. Nemes was approaching a reported IED, accompanied by an Afghan policeman, when a second IED device hidden along the path exploded. Cpt. Nemes was sent to Afghanistan to replace Sgt. 1st Class Gyula Kovács, who was also killed in an IED detonation on June 10, 2008.
• July 25, 2008 - A Danish soldier, Lance Corporal Jesper Gilbert Pedersen was killed in the Helmand province, when his MBT, hit an improvised explosive device/or mine. It was his third and final mission.
• August 11, 2008 - A Latvian ISAF soldier, Edgars Ozolins, 23, was killed and three others injured when an IED was detonated while the soldiers were on routine patrol in Maimana in the northern part of Afghanistan.
• August 19, 2008 - Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded after a three-hour gun battle 30 miles east of the capital Kabul in the Surobi district - the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2002.
• August 20, 2008 - Three Polish soldiers, Cprl. Waldemar Sujdak, 28, PFC Pawel Szwed, 27, and PFC Pawel Brodzikowski, 25, were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) strike in Ghazni province.
• August 25, 2008 - A Danish soldier, Henrik Christian Christiansen, 29, died of wounds suffered when the vehicle he was in was blasted by an improvised explosive device (IED). Also, a German soldier, Hauptfeldwebel Christian Cemnitz, died of natural causes.
• August 27, 2008 - A German ISAF soldier, Mischa Meier, 29, was killed and three others wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near the city of Kunduz.
• August 31, 2008 - A Romanian soldier, Dragos Traian Alexandrescu, 32, was killed and four others wounded when their armoured personnel carrier hit an improvised explosive device (IED) while on patrol on the Qalat-Kabul highway about 20 km from Qalat.
• September 7, 2008 - A Dutch ISAF soldier, Jos Ten Brinke, 21, died by an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near his vehicle.
• September 21, 2008 - An Italian soldier, caporal maggiore Alessandro Caroppo, 23, of San Pietro Vernotico, Brindisi died of the injuries from a accident in Afghanistan.
• October 20, 2008 - Two German paratroopers, Sgt Patrick Behlke (25) of Biesenthal and Cpl Roman Schimdt, 22, of Landstuhl, were killed by a suicide bomber in Chahar Dara district, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. They were from "Fallschirmjägerbattaillon 263".
• November 9, 2008 - Two Spanish soldiers, Juan Andrés Suárez García (41) of Mieres, Asturias and Rubén Alonso Ríos (30) of Vigo, Galicia as a result of a suicide attack against a convoy of Afghan National Army who was being escorted by Spanish soldiers on mission of education and training in the south of the Herat province. Another one was badly injured and several slightly
• November 22, 2008 - A French soldier died in a land mine explosion near Kabul.
• December 19, 2008 - Dutch military Sergeant Mark Weijdt died because of an improvised explosive device. This is the 18th casualty on the Dutch side since 2006 and the 6th of 2008. A second military suffered light injuries.
• December 4, 2008 - Two Danish soldiers were killed by an IED Helmand province.
• December 19, 2008 - Three Danish army servicemen were killed and one injured as their APC hit an IED or mine in southern Helmand province. The killed personel were aged between 21 and 23, and came out of Gardehusarregimentet in Slagelse. The casualties came shortly after two other soldiers were deceased in Denmark. With twelve soldiers killed, 2008 is marked as the most bloody year for Danish combat personel since 1940.

2009

• February 11, 2009 - A French paratrooper, Capt. Patrice Sonzogni, 46, of the 35th RAP (régiment d’artillerie parachutiste) de Tarbes was killed in an ambush south of Kabul.
• February 26, 2009 - A Romanian soldier, SGM Chira Claudiu, was killed when his armored personnel carrier hit an improvised explosive device (IED) while on patrol on the Qalat-Kabul highway.
• March 14, 2009 - A French soldier, Nicolas Belda (23) was killed when his armoured vehicle was hit by rocket fire in a clash with insurgents. French troops were carrying out a large military operation to attempt to take over a valley in the Kapisa region, 60 km northeast of the capital Kabul. Also, a German soldier, name as yet unreleased (21), was killed in a traffic accident in northern Afghanistan.
• March 31, 2009 - A Romanian soldier, name and age as yet unreleased, was killed and another injured when a mine detonated at a bridge on the Zabul-Kabul highway outside Zabul provincial capital Qalat in south Afghanistan.

See also

• War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
• Afghanistan War order of battle
• British forces casualties in Afghanistan
• Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan
• Criticism of the War on Terrorism
• German Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan
• Civilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
• List of Coalition aircraft losses in Afghanistan
• International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan
• ISAF
• Operation Enduring Freedom
• Operation Medusa
• Operation Mountain Fury
• Operation Northern Wind
• Protests against the invasion of Afghanistan
• Taliban insurgency
• Tarnak Farm incident

Notes

1. ^ U.S. Defense Department. "Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) U.S. Casualty Status."
2. iCasualties.org: Operation Enduring Freedom
3. Poll: More view Afghan war as 'mistake'
4. Operations in Afghanistan: British Fatalities
5. Flag-draped casket of Ouellet arrives in Canada
6. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081228/wounded_soldiers_081228/20081228?hub=Canada
7. [http://jp.dk/indland/article1549155.ece
8. http://icasualties.org/oef/byNationality.aspx?hndQry=France
9. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/17043/
10. http://english.defense.ro/misiuni/memoriam.php
11. http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2003/january/jan302003.html
12. http://www.myafghan.com/search2.asp?search=1/29/2003
13. World War 3 Report #71
14. Bomber kills 2 soldiers at Kabul airport - Boston.com
15. thinkSPAIN "Spanish soldier killed in Afghanistan accident "
16. http://icasualties.org/oef/
17. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf
18. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=5677
19. http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007May21/0,4675,CIAFallenOfficers,00.html
20. http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/112901/upd_075-5426.shtml

External links

• Defense Department Casualty Page
• NATO ISAF Press Releases
• Operation Enduring Freedom: Fatalities
• Casualties in Afghanistan & Iraq
• CNN.com - Operation Enduring Freedom Casualties
• US War Watch - Afghanistan casualties tracked by US War Watch
• CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan, Canadian casualties
• British military fatalities in Afghanistan in OEF and ISAF (BBC News)
• Casualty Counter: Afghanistan Casualty Counter
• "War Against Terrorism" in Afghanistan
• British Casualty Monitor - Tracking the war in Afghanistan
• "Firefight in Sangin: The Death of Pte. Robert Costall": Open source media analysis, MILNEWS.ca - Military News for Canadians, last updated 15 September 7 (104KB .pdf).
• "Highlights: Death of Corporal Anthony Joseph Boneca on July 9, 2006": Open source media analysis, MILNEWS.ca - Military News for Canadians, last updated 22 July 6 (80KB .pdf).
• The Reality Page

• History of Afghanistan
• War in Afghanistan (2001–present) casualties