Template:Iraq War Box
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| Iraq War | |||||||||
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 A U.S. convoy bound for Al Jawala passes burning oil fields. |
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| Combatants | |||||||||
 Ba’athist IraqMulti-sided combatants after Ba'athist government fell:  Ba’ath Loyalists Al-Qaeda in IraqMahdi Army Other Insurgent groups |
 United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia New Iraqi Army Iraqi KurdistanOther Coalition Forces |
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| Commanders | |||||||||
| Saddam Hussein Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Abu Ayyub al-Masri Moqtada al-Sadr Hadi Al-Amiri |
Nouri al-Maliki Massoud Barzani George W. Bush Tommy Franks George Casey David Petraeus Brian Burridge Peter Wall |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Iraqi 375,000+ regular forces Sunni Insurgents 60,000 [citation needed] Mahdi Army ~60,000[4][5] [citation needed] Badr Organization 4-10,000+ [citation needed] al Qaeda/others 1,300+[6] |
Coalition 315,000 invasion 147,000 current Contractors* ~100,000[7] Kurds 50,000 invasion 100,000 current New Iraqi Army 129,760 Iraqi Police 79-140,000 |
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| Casualties | |||||||||
| Iraqi military dead/wounded (Saddam-era): 30,000 killed, 90,000 injured[8][9] Insurgents dead: 7,009+ from an incomplete list of reports |
Iraqi Security Forces dead (post-Saddam era): 12,000+[10][11]
Iraqi Security Forces wounded: unknown Coalition dead (3,135 US, 132 UK, 124 other, *770 contractors): 4,140[12][13][7] Coalition Missing or Captured (US 2): 2 Coalition Wounded (45,798 U.S., 893+ UK, 7,761 contractors): 54,452 [14][12][15][16][17] |
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| **Total deaths (all Iraqis) Johns Hopkins: 392,979 - 942,636[18][19] War-related & criminal violence deaths (all Iraqis) Iraq Health Minister: War-related & criminal violence deaths (civilians) Iraq Body Count-english language media only: |
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| *Contractors (U.S. government) = "former special forces soldiers to drivers, cooks, mechanics, plumbers, translators, electricians and laundry workers and other support personnel."[13] **Total deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. For explanations of the wide variation in casualty estimates, see: Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 |
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