Tags; Bagram Air Base: Barack Obama shakes hands with US troops during his first visite to Afghanistan as President, Reuters, DAWN.
At least 945 members of the US military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the US invasion of  Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The number of US troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared with the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to revers the Taliban's momentum.AP, DAWN.