Ali, Azhar
Male
Verified In BAGHDAD, IRAQ on March 2, 2005, the ARMY lost SPC Ali, Azhar of FLUSHING, NY, 27, serving with HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 69TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 42D ID, (TF LIBERTY), NEW YORK, NY. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Serving as SPC Ali, Azhar, from FLUSHING, NY, at age 27, with HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 69TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, 42D ID, (TF LIBERTY), NEW YORK, NY, he went to Iraq with the ARMY. He did not come home.
On March 2, 2005, the ARMY lost SPC Ali, Azhar in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 27. The ARMY recorded the cause as HOSTILE.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The ARMY classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Ali, Azhar was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.
