Afghan men offer funeral prayers near the bodies of civilians killed in a NATO air strike, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. An Afghan official says a NATO strike in the country's east has killed several civilians, but the U.S.-led coalition says that it targeted insurgents and that its initial reports indicate no civilian casualties. Afghan and NATO officials regularly differ as to whether civilians have been hit in attacks. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has made denunciations of reported civilian deaths in airstrikes a pillar of his political strategy. (AP Photo/Nisar Ahmad)

It’s Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars

At least half a million people have been killed in the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, a new study by Brown University researchers finds.

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