While UN and relief agencies and partisan groups dispute fatalities in the wider region's recent wars, the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute at Brown University in the US has released a report which gives a comprehensive assessment of direct and indirect deaths from wars involving Washington since Al Qaeda attacked the US in September 2001.
The wars the United States waged and fueled in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following 9/11, under the pretext of counterterrorism, have brought untold suffering to the local communities and plunged their governments and people into more complex and agonizing circumstances, according to experts and a recent report.
While UN and relief agencies and partisan groups dispute fatalities in the wider region's recent wars, the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute at Brown University in the US has released a report which gives a comprehensive assessment of direct and indirect deaths from wars involving Washington since Al Qaeda attacked the US in September 2001.