Afghan civilian death toll ebbs in 2011 The death toll from the Afghan conflict has fallen slightly in the last year, said a report to the US Congress on Monday, after a decade of international intervention in the war torn country. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of the US Congress, 2,262 Afghan civilians died last year, compared to 2,777 in 2010. A similar decline was seen in the Afghan army with 289 deaths last year down from 821 in the previous year. For police, the toll stood at 522, also lower than 1,292 in 2010. The CRS however cautioned that the estimates are "based on varying time periods and have been created using different methodologies," so the figures should be treated with caution. Since the beginning of "Enduring Freedom," launched in October 2001 in the wake of the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York, a total of 1,864 US soldiers have been killed and 15,262 wounded. US President Barack Obama has set a goal for the US military to leave Afghanistan by 2014.