The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

878 Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses: 1992–Present

U.S. and UN fatalities in

Afghanistan, 2001–2010

Kabul

Kandahar

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PROVINCE

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200–499

100–199

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SAUDI ARABIA

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BAHRAIN OMAN

KUWAIT

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UNITED ARAB

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IRAN

TURKMENISTAN

AFGHANISTAN

PAKISTAN

GEORGIA

ARMENIA

AZERBAIJAN

SYRIA

IRAQ

TURKEY

Baghdad

Basra

Mosul

Tehran

Kabul

Karachi

AFGHANISTAN:

United States invades in 2001, drives

Taliban from power.

PAKISTAN:

Refuge for Taliban and for Al-Qaeda

terrorists after 2001; US bombs

Taliban and Al-Qaeda staging grounds

after 2008.

Iraq War (2003–)

US-led land campaign

War in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001–PresentSince 2003, the United States has fought two major wars in Central Asia: in Afghanistan, first to
drive the Taliban from power and later to suppress an insurgency; and in Iraq, first to crush Saddam Hussein and later to install a democratic
government. In Afghanistan, American losses have been heaviest in the southern provinces bordering Pakistan.