Guam PDM -- A 28-year-old soldier from Pohnpei has been killed in Afghanistan.

Army Sgt. Youvert Loney died Sept. 5 in Abad, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his vehicle using small arms and recoilless rifles, according to a news release from the Department of Defense.

According to the DOD news release, Loney was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

Loney is the fourth war casualty from the region this year.

He is the 34th Micronesian to die while supporting U.S. wars since 2003.

As of Thursday, at least 746 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 Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT, according to The Associated Press.

Of those, the military reports 569 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 69 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 also were four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death, the AP reported.