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1 day ago · Estimates of the total number of people killed during World War II have ranged from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000—a significant span, because statistics about the war’s casualties are inexact. The Soviet Union and China are believed to have suffered the most total casualties, while an estimated 5,800,000 Poles died, which represents about 20 percent of Poland’s prewar population.
2 days ago · American military casualties in the conflict included some 4,500 service members killed and some 32,000 others wounded. (Read Britannica’s interview with Jimmy Carter on the Iraq War and world affairs.) Prelude to war. Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 ended in Iraq’s defeat by a U.S.-led coalition in the Persian Gulf War (1990–91).
2 days ago · t. e. The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was a Napoleonic campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, executed by Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon proclaimed to "defend French trade interests" and to establish "scientific enterprise" in the region. It was the primary purpose of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, which ...
4 days ago · At least 37 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Rafah over the past few days (see 7.15am post), while 45 were killed in a deadly fire that swept through a camp for displaced Palestinians ...
5 days ago · In the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Syria lost control of the Golan Heights region to Israel. ... and the UN estimated in 2022 that at least 306,000 people have died during ...
1 day ago · According to Necrometrics, around 500,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Somalia since the start of the civil war in 1991. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataset estimates that 3,300 people were killed during the conflict in 2012, [144] with the number of fatalities dropping slightly in 2013 to 3,150. [144]
1 day ago · The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said 33 of its employees have been killed in Gaza since the war began. Of those, it said 19 were killed "while performing their humanitarian duties".
