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Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly. Estimating war-related deaths poses many challenges.
The "Iraq Index" of the Brookings Institution also keeps a running total of Iraqi security force casualties. [1] The highest reported number of policemen and soldiers killed in the war has been 15,196 for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 (with the exceptions of April 2004 and March 2009). [2]
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
List of assassinations of the Iraq War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War; List of bombings during the Iraq War; List of British casualties during the Iraq War; List of British gallantry awards for the Iraq War; List of British military installations used during the Iraq War; List of charges in United States v. Manning
Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war
The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [83] [84] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .
iCasualties.org, formally the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, [1] is an independent website [2] created in May 2003 by Michael White, a software engineer from Stone Mountain, Georgia, to track casualties in the Afghanistan War and Iraq War. [3]
In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stood before lawmakers and experts at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and proclaimed, “Today, Iraq has become a peaceful, democratic country that relies on its democratic institutions.” At the time, violence in the country was at its lowest since the start of the Iraq War in ...