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Graph of monthly deaths of U.S. military personnel in Iraq from beginning of war to June 24, 2008. [50] As of July 19, 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,431 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 31,994 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Iraq War.
Joshua Lloyd Wheeler (November 22, 1975 – October 22, 2015) was a United States Army soldier who was killed in Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve. [3] [4] He was a master sergeant assigned to the elite Delta Force, and was the first American service member killed in action as a result of enemy fire while fighting ISIS militants.
Ryan Curtis Job (pronounced "Jobe") [3] (March 11, 1981 – September 24, 2009), also known by his nickname "Biggles", [1] was an American sailor and member of the United States Navy SEALs who was shot during a combat mission in Ramadi, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Ramadi.
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
The last US combat troops withdrew from Iraq on 18 December 2011, although the US embassy and consulates continue to maintain a staff of more than 20,000 including 100+ military personnel within the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq (OSC-I), [359] US Marine Embassy Guards and between 4,000 and 5,000 private military contractors.
The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. Television footage showed flames rushing over the wedding hall as the fire took hold. Civil defense ...
Though Iraq still lingers in the American consciousness, the CIA finds itself in a very different, and more salutary, position today regarding the intelligence battle over Russia’s invasion of ...