Global War on Terror

2001–2021 Global Status: ended Casualties: ~900,000+ (Costs of War Project)

Two decades, four trillion dollars. Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), drone campaigns from Pakistan to Yemen to Somalia, the 2014 rise and 2019 territorial defeat of ISIS, the killing of bin Laden (2011), the Taliban's return to Kabul (Aug 2021).

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Belligerents

United States & coalition
Al-Qaeda
Taliban
ISIS
various jihadist movements

Casualties

~900,000+ (Costs of War Project)

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.