As of Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, at least 725 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 Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 549 were killed by hostile action.
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 69 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, three 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.
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The latest deaths reported by the military:
• A soldier died Wednesday when an improvised explosive detonated in southern Afghanistan.
• A soldier died Wednesday in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.
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The latest identifications reported by the military:
• Army Cpl. Darby T. Morin, 25, Victoria, Canada; died Saturday in Logar province, Afghanistan, when a vehicle overturned; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
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