the Swedish PRT have been killed. Turkey The Turkish Army suffered its first deaths on 14 July 2009, when two soldiers were killed in a road traffic accident in Faryab province, between Mazar-i Sharif and Kabul. One of the two killed was the commander of the Turkish contingent of ISAF troops in Afghanistan. On 16 March 2012, 12 Turkish soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed into a house in Kabul. On 26 February 2015, one Turkish soldier was killed and another wounded in a suicide-bombing in Kabul. United States Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan through mid-2019, nearly 2,400 American servicemembers have died. Additionally, 20,719 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department. Of the United States deaths, 1,922 have died in hostile action. Included in these numbers are 18 CIA operatives that were killed in Afghanistan: 16 by hostile fire, including seven in a suicide bomb attack on a military base, one in an accident and one committed suicide. The independent website iCasualties has put the total number of U.S. deaths at 2,355. This number is by 9 higher than the Department of Defense's tally which is 2,346, when including the intelligence operatives. War related out-of-country deaths In addition to the 2,313 American deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, 59 U.S. soldiers died in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Oman, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, the Arabian sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, while supporting operations in Afghanistan. Among them are also a Marine, a civilian DoD employee, two military airmen and a special forces member who were killed in action while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. 62 Spanish soldiers died in a Yak-42 plane crash in Turkey on their way back to Spain from Afghanistan. One Canadian soldier was found dead of non-combat-related causes at Camp Mirage, a forward logistics base in the United Arab Emirates near Dubai. See also War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Afghan War order of battle Criticism of the War on Terror Civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021) List of aviation accidents and incidents in the War in Afghanistan International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan ISAF Operation Enduring Freedom Protests against the war in Afghanistan Taliban insurgency Tarnak Farm incident Notes External links Defense Department Casualty Page NATO ISAF Press Releases Operation Enduring Freedom: Fatalities