Iraq War |
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Pairt o the War on Terror |
Clockwise frae tap: Delta Force o Task Force 20 alangside truips o 3rd Battalion, 327t Infantry Regiment, at Uday Hussain an Qusay Hussein's hideoot.; Insurgents in northren Iraq; an Iraqi insurgent firin a MANPADS; the topplin o the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square. |
Date | 20 Mairch 2003 (2003-03-20) – 15 December 2011 (2011-12-15) (8 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)[1][dubious – discuss] |
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Location | Iraq |
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Result |
Coalition victory
- Invasion an occupation o Iraq
- Owerthrow o Ba'ath Pairty govrenment an execution o Saddam Hussein
- Insurgency, foreign terrorist operations, an sectarian violence[2]
- Subsequent depletion o Iraqi insurgency,[3] improvements in public security[4]
- Establishment o democratic elections an furmation o new govrenment
- U.S.-Iraq Status o Forces Agreement
- Widrawal o U.S. forces frae Iraq
- Ongangin insurgency
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Belligerents |
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Invasion phase (2003)
Unitit States o Americae
Unitit Kinrick
Denmark
Australie
Poland
Peshmerga |
Invasion phase (2003)
Ba'athist Iraq |
Post-invasion (2003–11)
Iraq
- Iraqi Airmed Forces
- Peshmerga
- Awakening Council
Multi-National Force – Iraq
- 30 ither kintras
Supported By:
Saudi Arabie
Egyp
Kuwait |
Post-invasion (2003–11)
Ba'ath Pairty lyalists
- Supreme Command for Jihad an Liberation
- Airmy o the Men o the Naqshbandi Order
Supportit Bi:
Sirie
Sunni insurgents
- Islamic State o Iraq
- Islamic Airmy o Iraq
- Ansar al-Sunnah
Shia insurgents
- Mahdi Airmy
- Special Groups
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Ithers
Supportit Bi:
Iran
Sirie
For fichtin atween insurgent groups, see Ceevil war in Iraq.
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Commanders an leaders |
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Ayad Allawi
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Nouri al-Maliki
Ricardo Sanchez
George W. Casey, Jr.
David Petraeus
Raymond T. Odierno
Lloyd Austin
George W. Bush
General Tommy Franks
Barack Obama
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Soeren Gade
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
John Howard
Kevin Rudd
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Lech Kaczyński
Yevhen Marchuk
Oleksandr Kuzmuk |
Ba'ath Pairty
Saddam Hussein (POW)
Qusay Hussein †
Uday Hussein †
Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
Sunni insurgency
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi †
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi †
Abu Ayyub al-Masri †
Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman †
Abu Dua
Ishmael Jubouri
Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i (POW)
Shia insurgency
Muqtada al-Sadr
Abu Deraa Qais al-Khazali Akram al-Kabi |
Strenth |
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Invasion Forces (2003–2004) ~300,000
Coalition forces (2004–2009) 176,000 at peak
United States Forces – Iraq (2010–2011) 112,000 at activation
Security contractors 6,000–7,000 (estimate)[5]
Iraqi Security Forces 805,269 (militar an paramilitar: 578,269,[6] polis: 227,000)
Awakenin militias ~103,000 (2008)[7]
Iraqi Kurdistan ~400,000 (Kurdish Border Guard: 30,000,[8] Peshmerga 375,000) |
Iraqi Airmy: 375,000 (disbaundit in 2003)
Sunni Insurgents ~70,000 (2007)[9] Mahdi Airmy ~60,000 (2007)[10] al-Qaeda ~1,300 (2006)[11]
Islamic State o Iraq ~1,000 (2008) Airmy o the Men o the Naqshbandi Order ~500–1,000 (2007) |
Casualties an losses |
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Iraqi Security Forces (post-Saddam)
Killed: 16,623[12]
Woondit: 40,000+[13]
Coalition Forces
Killed: 4,805[14][15] (4,487 U.S.,[16] 179 UK,[17] 139 ither)
Missin/captured (U.S.): 8 (aw rescued)[18]
Woondit: 32,753+ (32,226 U.S.,[19] 315 UK, 212+ ither[20])[21][22][23][24]
Injured/diseased/ither medical*: 51,139 (47,541 U.S.,[25] 3,598 UK)[21][23][24]
Contractors
Killed: 1,554[26][27]
Woondit & injured: 43,880[26][27]
Awakenin Cooncils
Killed: 1,002+[28] Woondit: 500+ (2007),[29] 828 (2008)[30]
Tot dead: 24,219 Tot woondit: 117,961 |
Iraqi combatant deid (invasion period): 7,600–11,000[31][32]
Insurgents (post-Saddam)
Killed: 21,221–26,405 (2003-2011)[33]
Detainees: 12,000 (Iraqi-held)[34]
Tot dead: 28,821–37,405 |
Documented civilian daiths frae violence, Iraq Body Coont (2003 – 14 December 2011): 103,160–113,728 recordit[35] an 12,438 new daiths addit frae the Iraq War Logs[36]
Estimatit violent daiths:
Lancet survey (Mairch 2003 – Julie 2006): 601,027 (95% CI: 426,369–793,663)[37][38]
Associated Press (Mairch 2003 – Aprile 2009): 110,600[39]
Iraq Faimily Health Survey (Mairch 2003 – Julie 2006): 151,000 (95% CI: 104,000–223,000)[40]
For mair information see: Casualties o the Iraq War |
* "injured, diseased, or ither medical": required medical air transport. UK nummer includes "aeromed evacuations" ** Tot daiths include aw addeetional daiths due tae increased lawlessness, degradit infrastructur, puirer healthcare, etc. |