The war accounted for roughly as many American deaths as all American deaths in other U.S. wars combined.

(In 1918, avian flu killed more people than died in World War I).

Is it the number of deaths?

We had 10 people who were killed, including three kids.

A similar number of deaths occurred in the surrounding villages.

Even after three weeks, the total was less than in some one man suicide bombings.

More than 6,500 fatalities will have occurred this year alone, topping last year s total, which was double that in 2007.

Local tribal sources confirmed the toll, adding that among the dead insurgents there were at least 12 Somalis and a number of Saudis.

The death toll is expected to exceed 15,000.

Polish civilian deaths are estimated at between 150,000 and 200,000.

And others put the toll at over 635 so far

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The leak, which is considered to be one of the largest in U.S. military history, revealed information on the deaths of civilians, increased Taliban attacks, and involvement by Pakistan and Iran in the insurgency.

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It is believed to be the largest earthquake of the 20th century by death toll.

The violence resulted in a significant number of deaths, arson and damage to property.

1. with the credit of the World Bank for the training of demobilized soldiers, war invalids, and family members of killed soldiers,

More Palestinians were killed by contending militias than by the British army or the Jewish self defense forces.

Reports say that up to 20 people have been killed over the past three days.

Iranian newspaper reports at this stage did put the number killed at about 600.

As the fatalities increased, the General began to use letters with pre printed signatures.

But then, bad government can also contribute to the toll exacted by a natural disaster.

At the time of writing, the death toll stood at 2,039, including 540 children and 75 families.

This was by far the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars and cost more than 90,000 casualties in total.

There has been a reduction of over 90 per cent in the number of successful terrorist attacks, a 70 per cent reduction in the number of citizens killed and an 85 per cent reduction in the number of wounded.

Syrian Christians quietly celebrate Christmas as the nation's war enters its forth year, marking a death toll of more than 100,000 people and the displacement of millions to neighboring countries seeking shelter.

And if one thinks of the death toll of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (more than four million), talk of turning points in history, after the killing of nine people, sounds a little absurd.

Around 20,000 Christians were killed by the Druzes and 380 Christian villages and 560 churches destroyed.

Girls are killed in a gendercide routine in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

On the contrary, they're sisters.

Death toll and damage Chinese sources usually indicate the death toll of the Yangtze River overflow at about 145,000, with flood damage affecting around 28.5 million, while most Western sources give a far higher death toll of between 3.7 and 4 million people.

The death toll is expected to rise, and more than 150 people have been injured in a series of related incidents.

Most sources put the figure of those killed between 7,000 and 11,000, with some claiming over 20,000.

On April 6, the Chinese Ministry of Health reported 18 positive cases, death toll still at 6.

Two days later, positive cases rose to 24 and one death case from Shanghai brought the death toll to 7.

The most fatalities occurred in Gaza city, Rafah and northern Gaza, as a result of the intense military operations in those areas.

Both our home government and friends in Sierra Leone agreed.

Indeed, India stands only behind Iraq in the number of people killed each year in terrorist attacks.

More than 170 Palestinians have died since the violence began in June.

He noted that, while the death toll was not as high as in Asia, there were significant economic and social effects on the region.

This figure marked the high point of a four month increase in deaths due to violence that began in September 2004.

STRASBOURG In the 1990 s, the world averted its eyes to genocide in Rwanda, and to the Great Lakes War in eastern Congo, which claimed upward of five million lives the most in any war since World War II.

The alternative an attempt at negotiation between Syria s government and an increasingly fragmented opposition would serve only to prolong the war and raise the death toll.