2018 was the deadliest year for civilians
3,804 deaths
Including 927 children.
2010 was the deadliest year for US Troops
499 U.S. service members killed
August 2011 was the deadliest month for US Troops
In 2009 more U.S. soldiers died from suicide than were killed in combat in either Iraq or Afghanistan
On this day, 2011, after 11 months of Arab Spring protests in Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former President of Yemen, signed a legal immunity agreement, paving the way for the transfer of power to his deputy, Mansour Hadi, and then to Rashad al-Alimi. Since then, with the assistance of Saudi Arabia and the United States, they have initiated a bloody war in Yemen, leading to the death of over hundreds of thousands of people.
