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Iraq War - Wikipedia
The Iraq War[nb 1] was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
War on Terror - Wikipedia
The War on Terror (WoT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a metaphor of war referring to the international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror

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Iraq War
حرب العراق (Arabic)

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

Date	20 March 2003 – 18 December 2011 (8 years, 8 months and 28 days)
Location	Iraq
Result	see Aftermath

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

MNF–I (2003–09)

After Invasion (2003–11)

Ba'ath loyalists

Sunni insurgents

Shia insurgents

Commanders and leaders

Strength

Coalition forces (2003)
309,000–584,799
United States: 192,000–466,985 personnel ^[2]^[3]
United Kingdom: 45,000
Australia: 2,000
Poland: 194
Peshmerga: 70,000

Coalition forces (2004–09)
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]
Special Iraqi Republican Guard: 12,000
Iraqi Republican Guard: 70,000–75,000
Fedayeen Saddam: 30,000

Sunni Insurgents
≈70,000 (2007)^[8]
Al-Qaeda
≈1,300 (2006)^[9]

Islamic State of Iraq
≈1,000 (2008)
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
≈500–1,000 (2007)

Casualties and losses

Iraqi security forces (post-Saddam)
Killed: 17,690^[b]
Wounded: 40,000+^[15]
Coalition forces
Killed: 4,825 (4,507 US,^[c] 179 UK,^[20] 139 other)^[21]
Missing/captured (US): 17 (9 died in captivity, 8 rescued)^[22]
Wounded: 32,776+ (32,292 US,^[23] 315 UK, 210+ other^[d])^[44]^[45]^[46]^[47]
Injured/diseases/other medical*: 51,139 (47,541 US,^[48] 3,598 UK)^[44]^[46]^[47]
Contractors
Killed: 3,650 ^[49]^[50]^[51]
Wounded & injured: 43,880^[50]^[51]
Awakening Councils
Killed: 1,002+^[e]
Wounded: 500+ (2007),^[63] 828 (2008)^[64]

Total dead: 27,163
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

Documented deaths from violence:
Iraq Body Count (2003 – 14 December 2011): 103,160–113,728 civilian deaths recorded^[76] and 12,438 new deaths added from the Iraq War Logs^[77]
Associated Press (March 2003 – April 2009): 110,600 Iraqi deaths in total^[78]

Statistical estimates
Lancet survey** (March 2003 – July 2006): 654,965 (95% CI: 392,979–942,636)^[79]^[80]
Iraq Family Health Survey*** (March 2003 – July 2006): 151,000 (95% CI: 104,000–223,000)^[81]
Opinion Research Business**: (March 2003 – August 2007): 1,033,000 (95% CI: 946,258–1,120,000)^[82]
PLOS Medicine Study**: (March 2003 – June 2011): 405,000 (60% violent) (95% CI: 48,000–751,000)^[83]

For more information see Casualties of the Iraq War.

* "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).

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Iraq War - Wikipedia
The Iraq War[nb 1] was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
War on Terror - Wikipedia
The War on Terror (WoT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a metaphor of war referring to the international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror

Iraq War
حرب العراق (Arabic)

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