The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2003

• Operation Silverado in Iraq

2007

• A former Marine sergeant was charged in federal court in Los Angeles, California, for his alleged role in the killing of eight unarmed Iraqi prisoners during the intense November 2004 battle for Fallujah. Four days later, the Marine Corps announced it was charging another Marine in connection with the same incident. Both men were members Company K, 3d Battalion, 1st Marines.
• Marines with 3d Battalion, 6th Marines, began returning to North Carolina following a seven-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. About a week later, on 22 August, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, also began arriving home in California from Iraq
• Start of Operation Marne Husky Iraq
• Operation Chesterfield in Iraq

2021

• Start of Operation Devi Shakti in Afghanistan

Casualties on August 16:

• HEATH, DAVID MICHAEL – August 16, 2004
• STOKELY, MICHAEL JAMES – August 16, 2005
• COLE, JEREMIAH SCOTT – August 16, 2006
• GLOVER, MICHAEL DENNIS – August 16, 2006
• LOA, JEFFREY SIFOA – August 16, 2006
• MCKENNA, JOHN JAMES IV – August 16, 2006
• PHILLIPS, JOHN PAUL – August 16, 2006
• BLOCK, KAMISHA JANE – August 16, 2007
• KERCHIEF-POWELL, WILLARD MONROE III – August 16, 2007
• NORRIS, PAUL BRANDON – August 16, 2007
• RODGERS, KRISTOPHER DAN – August 16, 2008
• ROUSH, NICHOLAS RYAN – August 16, 2009
• WOODS, WILLIAM BRIAN JR – August 16, 2009
• JENSEN, DENNIS GREGORY – August 16, 2011
• SEALS, JOSHUA MICHAEL – August 16, 2011
• CARSON, SEAN PATRICK – August 16, 2012
• DEMARSICO, MICHAEL ROBERT II – August 16, 2012
• ESSEX, RICHARD ALLEN – August 16, 2012
• FEEKS, PATRICK DELANEY – August 16, 2012
• HORNSBY, BRIAN DANIEL – August 16, 2012
• JUSTICE, JAMES AUSTIN – August 16, 2012
• KRAUSE, SURESH NIRANJAN ABA – August 16, 2012
• OLIVER GALBREATH, LUIS ANTONIO – August 16, 2012
• WARSEN, DAVID JOHN – August 16, 2012
• BUTLER, AARON RHETT – August 16, 2017