Iraq War
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Facts from the Wikipedia page:
| Iraq War (2003-present) | |||||||
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| Part of the War on Terrorism | |||||||
![]() Clockwise, starting at top left: a joint patrol in Samarra; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square; an Iraqi Army soldier readies his rifle during an assault; an IED detonates in South Baghdad. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
2003 Invasion Forces: | Insurgent groups:
For fighting between insurgent groups, see Civil war in Iraq. | ||||||
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| Strength | |||||||
| Iraqi Security Forces 631,000 (Army: 254,000, Police: 227,000, FPS: 150,000) Coalition Forces ~300,000 invasion ~115,000 current [7] Peshmerga 50,000 invasion ~375,000 current Contractors* Turkish Armed Forces: ~3,000-10,000[11] | Iraqi Army: 375,000 (under Saddam Hussein)
Sunni Insurgents PKK: ~4,000[15] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Iraqi Security Forces (post-Saddam): 11,900 police/military killed 94 MIA/POW Coalition dead: 4,693[16][17] (4,375 US,[18] 179 UK,[19] 139 other) Coalition missing or captured (US): 1[17] Coalition wounded: 31,582 US, 315 UK[17][20][21][22] Coalition injured, deseased, or other medical:** 36,106 US, 3,283 UK[17][21][22] Contractors killed: 1,323[23][24][25] (US 244) Contractors missing or captured: 16 (US 5) Contractors wounded & injured: 10,569[23] Awakening Councils: Turkish Armed Forces: | Iraqi combatant dead (invasion period): 6,370-10,800[27][28]
Insurgents dead (post-Saddam): 22,180-23,693 Detainees: 8,300 (U.S.-held)[30] PKK: 537 killed (Turkish Claim) | ||||||
| Iraqi civilian deaths, Iraq Body Count project – December 2009: 94,349 – 102,949 [33] (lowest estimate)
Total deaths (all excess deaths), (Lancet) – December 2009: 1,366,350***[34][35][36] (highest estimate) For more information see: Casualties of the Iraq War | |||||||
| *Contractors (U.S. government) perform "highly dangerous duties almost identical to those performed by many U.S. troops."[9] ** "injured, diseased, or other medical" - required medical air transport. UK number includes wounded ("aeromed evacuations") ***Total deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. | |||||||
| Date | March 20, 2003 – Present |
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| Location | Iraq |
| Status | Conflict ongoing
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