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Iraq War حرب العراق (Arabic) | |||||||
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Part of the Iraq conflict and the war on terror | |||||||
Clockwise from top: US troops raid Uday and Qusay Hussein's hideout; insurgents in northern Iraq; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Invasion (2003) United States Iraqi Kurdistan United Kingdom Australia Iraqi National Congress[1] Poland |
Invasion (2003) Iraq People's Mujahedin of Iran | ||||||
After Invasion (2003–11) Iraq United States United Kingdom MNF–I (2003–09) Iraqi Kurdistan Awakening Council |
After Invasion (2003–11) Ba'ath loyalists Sunni insurgents Shia insurgents | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
Coalition forces (2003) 176,000 at peak United States Forces – Iraq (2010–11) 112,000 at activation Security contractors 6,000–7,000 (estimate)[4] Iraqi security forces 805,269 (military and paramilitary: 578,269,[5][page needed] police: 227,000) Awakening militias ≈103,000 (2008)[6] Iraqi Kurdistan ≈400,000 (Kurdish Border Guard: 30,000,[7] Peshmerga 75,000) |
Iraqi Armed Forces: 375,000[a] Sunni Insurgents ≈1,000 (2008) Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order ≈500–1,000 (2007) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Iraqi security forces (post-Saddam) Total wounded: 117,961 |
Iraqi combatant dead (invasion period): 7,600–45,000[65][66] Insurgents (post-Saddam) Killed: 26,544+ (2003–11)[f] (4,000 foreign fighters killed by Sep. 2006)[73] Detainees: 12,000 (Iraqi-held, in 2010 only)[74] 119,752 insurgents arrested (2003–2007)[75] Total dead: 34,144–71,544 | ||||||
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* "injured, diseased, or other medical": required medical air transport. UK number includes "aeromed evacuations". ** Total excess deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. *** Violent deaths only – does not include excess deaths due to increased lawlessness, poorer healthcare, etc. **** Sukkariyeh, Syria were also affected (2008 Abu Kamal raid). |