The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion

Total deaths during the post-2001 U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen is likely to reach 3.1 million or more—around 200 times the number of U.S. dead.

By Jessica Corbett

The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost at least 801,000 lives and $6.4 trillion according to a pair of reports published in November by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs . . .

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