Conflicts / Tags / Toll

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday. The soaring death toll was announced as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Dec 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Three powerful car bombs exploded one after the other in a southern provincial capital Wednesday, killing at least 46 people and injuring 149 others, the most devastating attack in the nation since August, police said. The attack in Amara, in Maysan pr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The death toll from a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children rose to 60 on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque near the site of the bombing in the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

Washington Post -- The confirmed death toll from four coordinated truck bombings in northern Iraq passed 250 Wednesday, as rescue workers used bulldozers and bare hands to recover bodies in two isolated communities near the Syrian border. The attack now ranks as the deadlie.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

FOX News -- Around 1,200 Iraqi civilians were killed in violence in June, a 36 percent drop from the previous month and the lowest monthly toll this year, according to Iraqi government figures obtained Sunday. The decrease comes amid a U.S. troop increase in Baghd.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:39pm neoform

SF Gate -- Another U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the military said Thursday, pushing the four-year death toll for American forces to 3,501, according to an Associated Press tally. The count includes 23 deaths in the first six days of June, a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Dec 30, 2006 @ 11:45am neoform

Washington Post -- Three more Marines were killed in battle in Iraq, the military said Friday, making December the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops, with the toll reaching 106... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- President Hamid Karzai declared three days of mourning for victims of a suicide bomb targeting a group of lawmakers, and raised the death toll Wednesday to 41, making it the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Hundreds of.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Sep 30, 2007 @ 5:27pm neoform

CNN -- The U.S. monthly death toll in Iraq has dropped to its lowest level in more than a year, although the figure is "still too high," the military said Sunday. September's preliminary death toll is at least 62, according to military reports, the lowest nu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Rescuers searching the devastated scene of a multiple bomb attack in northern Iraq fear another 200 people could be buried under rubble. The governor of Tal Afar told the BBC the current toll of 250 dead and 350 injured was expected to rise sharply... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 9:28am neoform

SF Gate -- The U.S. military announced Sunday the deaths of 14 more soldiers in the last three days, a heavy toll that underscored the increased exposure of U.S. forces as reinforcements push deeper into war-torn neighborhoods of Baghdad and outlying areas in a bid.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 11:28am neoform

FOX News -- The death toll from a homicide bombing that targeted Pakistan's top security official rose to 28 Sunday, the country's information minister said. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao was left spattered in blood but only slightly injured in the attack S.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 4:59pm neoform

Associated Press -- The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army, which American and Iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest attempt to curb violence in the capital, surrou.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 10:59am neoform

CNN -- Last week's suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar is the deadliest single attack since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, a high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new death toll for the blast surfaced. The W.. Read More