US ‘war on terror’ has killed 5,00,000 people: study

According to a study due to the US “war on terror” that was launched following the September 11 attacks in 2001, about 5,00,000 people have died violently in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

The report by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll at between 4,80,000 and 5,07,000 people—but said the actual number is likely higher. The new toll “is a more than 1,10,000 increase over the last count, issued just two years ago in August 2016,” Brown said in a statement.

The death toll includes insurgents, local police and security forces, civilians and US and allied troops.
The report’s author, Neta Crawford, said many of those reported by US and local forces as militants may actually have been civilians. “We may never know the total direct death toll in these wars,” Crawford wrote. “For example, tens of thousands of civilians may have died in retaking Mosul and other cities from ISIS but their bodies have likely not been recovered.”War on terror

The report states that between 1,82,272 and 2,04,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq, 38,480 in Afghanistan, and 23,372 in Pakistan.

Nearly 7,000 US troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The tally does not include all people who have died indirectly as a result of the war, including through a loss of infrastructure or disease.