--- title: No U.S. Troops Died in Iraq or Afghanistan Last Month description: There were no American troop casualties in Afghanistan or Iraq in March, for the first time since February 2003, ending 133 straight months when at least one U.S. service member was killed. U.S. deaths in Iraq peaked in November 2004, and in Afghanistan in August 2011 canonical: https://time.com/45160/zero-us-fatalities-iraq-afghanistan-11-years/ author: Mark Thompson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-01T14:32:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:30.587Z article:section: Politics og:title: No U.S. Troops Died in Iraq or Afghanistan Last Month og:description: There were no American troop casualties in Afghanistan or Iraq in March, for the first time since February 2003, ending 133 straight months when at least one U.S. service member was killed. U.S. deaths in Iraq peaked in November 2004, and in Afghanistan in August 2011 og:url: https://time.com/45160/zero-us-fatalities-iraq-afghanistan-11-years/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf560b9135d56ad7c/69868853cd6848dcc2093e54/us-soldiers-afghanistan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division patrol on the edge of a village outside of Forward Operating Base Shank on March 29, 2014 near Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No U.S. Troops Died in Iraq or Afghanistan Last Month twitter:description: There were no American troop casualties in Afghanistan or Iraq in March, for the first time since February 2003, ending 133 straight months when at least one U.S. service member was killed. 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Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division patrol on the edge of a village outside of Forward Operating Base Shank on March 29, 2014 near Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan.Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Mark Thompson](https://time.com/author/mark-thompson/) ## Mark Thompson Apr 1, 2014 2:32 PM UTC For the first month since February, 2003, no U.S. troops died in Afghanistan or Iraq last month. That’s 133 months, more than a decade.  U.S. deaths, by month, in Afghanistan. iCasualties.org According to these charts from [iCasualties.org](http://icasualties.org/), the best and speediest accounting of U.S. war dead, U.S. deaths in the Iraq war peaked in Nov. 2004, when 137 troops were killed. The peak in Afghanistan was Aug. 2011, when 65 died.  U.S. deaths, by month, in Iraq. iCasualties.org The deadliest year in Iraq for U.S. troops was 2007, when 904 perished. In Afghanistan, 2010 was the grimmest, with 496 dead. A total of 4,486 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq, including in accidents and other non-hostile events. The toll in Afghanistan stands at 2,315. The iCasualties.com charts below also make clear that U.S. allies accounted for a far greater share of the allied war dead in Afghanistan than in Iraq.  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