At least 610 US military deaths in Afghanistan region since 2001, Defense Department says

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 610

As of Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at least 610 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Monday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 450 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 67 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, three were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.

There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

— No deaths reported.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

— Army Spc. Lukasz D. Saczek, 23, Lake in the Hills, Ill.; died Sunday in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered from a non-combat related incident; was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry Regiment, Illinois Army National Guard, Woodstock, Ill.

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