Question

What are the similarities and differences between Americans involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001?

Answer 1

By comparison 4,523 U.S. troops have been killed since the Iraq war began in 2003, according to the group.

The war has also taken a tremendous toll on citizens of the war-torn nation. Tens of thousands of Afghans are thought to have died since the U.S. helped topple the Taliban in 2001. Earlier this year, the United Nations reported that 3,498 Afghan civilians were killed in 2016 alone and 7,920 were injured, making it the deadliest year for civilian casualties since the U.N. began counting in 2009. The report also stated that the number of children killed in 2016 was 24 percent greater than the previous highest recorded figure.