Foreign contractor deaths in Afghanistan by country : 121 : 22 : 19 : 17 : 13 : 13 : 13 : 11 : 11 : 10 : 9 : 7 : 5 : 3 : 3 : 3 : 3 : 2 : 2 : 2 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 Unidentified: 8

TOTAL: 307 This is a partial list of private contractors and aid workers killed in the War in Afghanistan according to a few published news sources. It was reported that by July 2007, at least 75 foreign contractors had been killed in the war.

It was also reported that from 2001 to 2009, at least 289 contractors had been killed in the war.

The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed that by March 31, 2021, a total of 1,822 civilian contractors were killed in Afghanistan, of which, during the period between June 2009 and April 2010, 260 were private security contractors.

As of June 24, 2019, 305 foreign private contractor deaths in Afghanistan as part of the War in Afghanistan are listed in this article. Of these, 121 are Americans, 22 are Britons, 19 are Nepalese, 17 are Ukrainians and 13 are Canadians. At least 58 of those killed were private military contractors or PMCs.

Incidents of foreign contractor deaths

2003 February 8, 2003 – Two Pakistani engineers were killed in an ambush in Ghazni province. November 8, 2003 – An Indian telecommunications engineer was shot and killed. He was working for the Afghan Wireless Company.

2004 March 5, 2004 – A Turkish road engineer was killed in an ambush in Zabul province. May 5, 2004 – Two British PMCs were killed in an ambush in Nuristan province. June 10, 2004 – 11 Chinese road engineers were killed in an attack on their compound in Kunduz province. August 29, 2004 – Three American and three Nepalese PMCs were killed when a suicide bomber attacked DynCorp's office in Kabul. October 23, 2004 – An American translator was killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul. November 27, 2004 – Three American crew members died when a CASA C-212 plane crashed in western Afghanistan. They were worked for Presidential Airways, a Blackwater sister company. December 14, 2004 – A Turkish road engineer was captured and executed in Kunar province.

2005 January 20, 2005 – One Pakistani truck driver was killed in an ambush in Kandahar province. February 3, 2005 – Three American aid workers were killed when their transport plane crashed near Kabul. February 8, 2005 – An American contractor, Michael E. Vander Luitgaren, passed away while working in Afghanistan.VANDER LUITGAREN, MICHAEL E. March 8, 2005 – One British contractor, working for Afghanistan's rural development ministry, was shot and killed in Kabul. April 1, 2005 – Two Pakistani truck drivers were killed in an ambush in Kandahar province. April 6, 2005 – Three American Halliburton contractors were killed when a military CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in a sandstorm in Ghazni province. Fifteen soldiers also died in the crash. May 9, 2005 – One Myanmar U.N. engineer was killed by a bomb in Kabul. June 7, 2005 – Two Pakistani truck drivers were killed in an ambush in Kandahar province. July 18, 2005 – Two Zimbabwean mine technicians (Fidelis Makwena and Moses Sibanda) were killed by a landmine they were clearing. They were employed by Mine-Tech. August 31, 2005 – A British PMC was captured and executed three days later. November 11, 2005 – Eight crew members of an Il-76 were killed when their plane crashed near Kabul. They included: five Russians, two Ukrainians and one Pakistani. November 18, 2005 – An Indian truck driver Maniappan Raman Kutty was captured in southern Afghanistan. His body was found four days later. He worked for the Border Roads Organisation.

2006 February 7, 2006 – One Indian engineer (Bharat Kumar), one Turkish road engineer (Ufuk Aydin) and a Nepalese PMC were killed by a roadside bomb in Farah province. February 13, 2006 – An American contractor died of natural causes at Bagram airfield. March 10, 2006 – Four Macedonian cleaners were captured and executed; their bodies were found one week later. March 28, 2006 – A South African PMC was killed by a roadside bomb in Farah province. An American contractor, working for KBR, died of natural causes at Bagram airfield. April 3, 2006 – One Turkish road engineer was killed in Nimroz province. April 24, 2006 – Two Ukrainian pilots were killed when their An-26 plane crashed in Helmand province. April 28, 2006 – An Indian telecommunications engineer, K. Suryanarayan, was captured in Zabul province. He was executed two days later. He was worker for Al-Moayed, Bahrain-based company. May 18, 2006 – An American PMC, Ron Zimmerman, who worked for DynCorp International, was killed by a roadside bomb in Herat province. July 23, 2006 – A Canadian carpenter, Mike Frastacky, was shot and killed in Nahrin. July 26, 2006 – Two American contractors were killed when their transport helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan. August 28, 2006 – A Turkish road engineer was killed, and a Turkish PMC was captured in an attack in Helmand province; the PMC was killed 22 days later. September 22, 2006 – A Pakistani truck driver was killed in an ambush near Jalalabad. December 3, 2006 – Eight Russian crew members of an Mi-26 were killed when their helicopter crashed in Oruzgan province. December 6, 2006 – Two American PMCs were killed by a suicide bomber in Kandahar province.

2007 January 28, 2007 – An American construction engineer was killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul. February 27, 2007 – An American supply worker was killed by a suicide bomber at Bagram Air Base. March 8, 2007 – A German aid worker was shot and killed in Shar-e-Pul province.http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL277709.htm He was worked for Deutsche Welthungerhilfe. April 17, 2007 – Four Nepalese PMCs were killed by a roadside bomb in Kabul. June 13, 2007 – A United Arab Emirates PMC was captured in Helmand province; he is still missing and presumed dead. July 19 – August 30, 2007 – Two South Korean aid workers were killed during a hostage crisis. July 28, 2007 – An American and a Nepalese PMC were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul. August 15, 2007 – A British PMC was shot and killed in Kabul. August 21, 2007 – A Filipino road engineer was killed in an attack on his offices in Paktia province.http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/topstories/topstories/view_article.php?article_id=77403 September 11, 2007 – A Turkish road engineer was killed by a roadside bomb in Paktia province. September 12, 2007 – A Bangladeshi aid worker was shot and killed in Badakhshan province.

2008 January 14, 2008 – An American, Thor Hesla, and a Filipino contractor were killed in an attack on their hotel in Kabul. January 26, 2008 – An American aid worker was captured and executed one month later, her body was never found. April 1, 2008 – An American contractor was killed in an accident in Kabul. April 12, 2008 – Two Indian road engineers were killed by two suicide bombers in Nimroz province. May 7, 2008 – A U.S. tribal customs contractor, Michael Bhatia, was killed, along with two US soldiers, by a roadside bomb in Khost province. August 13, 2008 – An American, a Canadian and an Irish aid worker were shot and killed in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of Logar province. They were worked for the International Rescue Committee. August 27, 2008 – A Japanese agricultural engineer was captured and executed in Nangarhar province. October 13, 2008 – An Indian food provider was captured and executed four months later.http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-105750.html October 20, 2008 – A British aid worker, employed by SERVE Afghanistan, was shot and killed in Kabul. October 25, 2008 – A Briton and a South African, working for DHL courier service, were shot and killed in Kabul.

2009 January 7, 2009 – An American social scientist/anthropologist died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas of wounds received on November 4, 2008, when she was doused with fuel and set afire by a Taliban member posing as an Afghan civilian. February 28, 2009 – An American PMC, Santos Cardona, was killed by a roadside bomb in Uruzgan province. Cardona had previously served time for his role in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. March 20, 2009 – A Filipino carpenter was killed in a rocket attack on the Kandahar Air Base. May 2, 2009 – An American PMC was killed in an ambush east of Kabul.http://news-press.com/article/20090428/NEWS01/904280362 May 20, 2009 – An American PMC was killed by a roadside bomb near Kabul. July 3, 2009 – An unidentified foreign road engineer was killed by a roadside bomb in Paktia province. July 14, 2009 – Six Ukrainian crew members were killed when their Mi-26 helicopter was shot down in Helmand province.Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Taimoor Shah. Helicopter Crash Kills 6 in Afghanistan // "The New York Times", July 14, 2009 July 19, 2009 – Ten Filipino construction workers, four Nepalese contractors, one American PMC and one unidentified foreign contractor were killed when their Mi-8 helicopter crashed at the Kandahar Air Base.http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/19-general/521-four-nepalis-killed-in-afghanistan-copter-crash.html August 16, 2009 – A British PMC was killed in an ambush in Herat province.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090816/tuk-guard-killed-in-afghanistan-f858358.html August 17, 2009 – An American civilian working for the military was killed in an ambush in the east of the country. September 19, 2009 – The body of a Briton, who had worked as an advisor with the Ministry for Rural Rehabilitation and Development, was found in a room in Qasar Park Guest House in Kabul. October 13, 2009 – International Security Assistance Forces recovered the remains of three civilian crew members and the wreckage of an aircraft missing since October 13 in the rugged mountains of northeast Afghanistan. November 14, 2009 – An American contractor was killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan.Three Americans killed in Afghanistan - AFP Nov 14, 2009 November 23, 2009 – Three Ukrainians were killed when their Mi-8 helicopter under contract for NATO forces crashed in eastern Logar province. Helicopter belonged to Air Freight Aviation (UAE).Crashed Foreign Helicopter Found In Afghanistan // "The New York Times" December 30, 2009 – Two US Blackwater Contractors along with seven other members of the CIA and Jordanian intelligence were killed when a suicide bomber detonated at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a military outpost in Khost Province used formerly used by the CIA in support of intelligence gathering operations.Camp Chapman attack

2010 January 31, 2010 – An American contractor was killed, along with two U.S. soldiers, in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan. March 15, 2010 – A Bosnian firefighter was killed in a rocket attack on a U.S. military base. April 9, 2010 – An American contractor was killed, along with three U.S. soldiers, when their Osprey helicopter crashed in Zabul province. April 20, 2010 – A Bosnian PSC Perica Jaric was killed by roadside bomb. He worked for SOC LLCPoginuo Perica Jarić iz Donje Ljubije May 6, 2010 – Ryan Lozier, a U.S. private security contractor was killed by a roadside bomb while working for Global Security Solutions, a private security company.Rick McCrabb. Middletown grad killed in Afghanistan // "Daiton Daily News", May 11, 2010 May 19, 2010 – An American PMC was killed when the Bagram military air base was attacked.http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=12504929 June 17, 2010 – An American contractor was hung at Camp Phoenix, Afghanistan military base.Former Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Paul Terrell, Civilian Contractor, Murdered in Afghanistan