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Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday [, April 18, 2007, ] was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings , mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on November 23, 2006, according to the AP count."
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 .
On June 2, 2006, news outlets reported that 24 Iraqis had been killed, none as a result of the bomb explosion. [30] This news predated the results of the U.S. military investigation, which found that the 24 unarmed Iraqis—including women and children as young as two years old [31] —were killed by 12 members of K Company. [32]
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On Friday, 14 September 2007, ORB International, an independent polling agency located in London, published estimates of the total war casualties in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. [1] At over 1.2 million deaths (1,220,580), this estimate is the highest number published so far.
The deadliest years were during the invasion of Iraq and the war against ISIS, with 2017 - Donald Trump's first year in office - potentially the worst. As many as 48,000 civilians have been killed ...
Based on the household surveys, the report estimates that, just before the war, Iraq's mortality rate was 5.5 per 1,000. (That is, for every 1,000 people, 5.5 die each year.) The results also show that, in the three and a half years since the war began, this rate has shot up to 13.3 per 1,000.
The Iraq War began in March 2003 as an invasion of Ba'athist Iraq by a force led by the United States. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The Ba'athist government led by Saddam Hussein was toppled within a month. This conflict was followed by a longer phase of fighting in which an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi ...