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| Iraq War | |||||||||
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| Part of "War on Terrorism"[1] | |||||||||
 U.S. Abrams tanks in Baghdad, evacuation of a wounded soldier during the Battle of Fallujah, New Iraqi Army soldiers and a car bomb explosion |
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| Combatants | |||||||||
Resistance Forces: Ba'athist Iraq   Ba'ath Loyalists Al-Qaeda in IraqMahdi Army Other insurgent groups and militias The militia of SCIRI (Badr Organization)[4] |
Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom Australia Republic of Korea New Iraqi Army Kurdish forcesMultinational forces in Iraq SCIRI[4] others |
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| Commanders | |||||||||
Saddam Hussein Abu Musab al-Zarqawi†Moqtada al-Sadr Abu Ayyub al-MasriMujahideen Shura Council others |
George W. BushTommy FranksGeorge Casey Brian Burridge Peter Wall others |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 375,000+ initial (figure only includes regular Iraqi forces) | 263,000 coalition, 50,000 Kurdish fighters (peak) | ||||||||
| Casualties | |||||||||
| Iraqi military dead (Saddam-era): 4,900-6,375 Insurgents dead: 45,000-60,000 |
Coalition dead (inc. 2,809 US, 119 UK, 119 other, 647 contractors): 3,694 [6] [7] Iraqi Security Forces dead (post-Saddam era): 6,392 Coalition Wounded in action (inc. 20,687 U.S., 891+ UK, 3,963+ contractors): 25,541 [8] [9] [10] |
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| "There are now at least 8 independent estimates of the number or rate of deaths induced by the invasion of Iraq." [11]
Total excess deaths of Iraqis (civilians and non-civilians) due to war (Johns Hopkins University): Civilian deaths (Iraq Body count): |
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