As of Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at least 496 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Aug. 2 at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 352 were killed by hostile action.
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.
There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death.
The latest deaths reported by the military:
No deaths reported.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony M. Carbullido, 25, Agat, Guam; died Friday in Sangatesh, Afghanistan, from injuries suffered when his vehicle struck an explosive; assigned to the Naval Hospital Corps School in Great Lakes, Ill.
