The Iraq War ( Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom) statistics:

Iraq War
Part of the War on Terror
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Clockwise, starting at top left: a joint patrol in Samarra; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square; an Iraqi Army soldier readies his rifle during an assault; a roadside bomb detonates in South Baghdad.
Date March 20, 2003 – present
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Operation Iraqi Freedom: March 20, 2003 – August 31, 2010
Operation New Dawn: September 1, 2010 – present
Location Iraq
Status Combat operations concluded
  • Invasion of Iraq
  • Overthrow of Baath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein
  • Occupation of Iraq
  • Iraqi insurgency and outbreak of sectarian violence.
  • Foreign terrorist operations in Iraq
  • Elections held in Iraq
  • Status of Forces Agreement and Strategic Framework Agreement
  • Most of the Iraqi Insurgency destroyed
  • Presence of American troops in advise and assist role until late 2011
Belligerents
United States

Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan Peshmerga
Iraq Awakening Councils
Withdrawn Coalition forces:

  • United Kingdom (2003–09)
  • Australia (2003–09)
  • Poland (2003–08)
  • Republic of Korea (2003–08)
  • Italy (2003–06)
  • Georgia (2003–08)
  • Ukraine (2003–08)
  • Netherlands (2003–05)
  • Spain (2003–04)
  • MNF–I (04-10)
  • 30 other countries

Turkey

Insurgent groups:
  • Baath Party Loyalists
  • Islamic State of Iraq
    • al-Qaeda in Iraq
  • Mahdi Army
    • Special Groups
  • Islamic Army of Iraq
  • Ansar al-Sunnah

Iraq Iraq under Saddam Hussein

Kurdistan Workers' Party

For fighting between insurgent groups, see Civil war in Iraq.
Commanders and leaders
Iraq Jalal Talabani

Iraq Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Iraq Nouri al-Maliki
Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani
Iraqi Kurdistan Masrour Barzani
Iraq Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (K.I.A.)
Iraq Ahmad Abu Risha
United States Barack Obama
United States George W. Bush
United States Ray Odierno
United States David Petraeus
United States George W. Casey, Jr.
United States Ricardo Sanchez
United States Tommy Franks
United Kingdom John Cooper
United Kingdom Andy Salmon
United Kingdom Richard Shirreff

 Iraq Saddam Hussein
(P.O.W.)

Iraq Qusay Hussein (K.I.A.)
Iraq Uday Hussein (K.I.A.)
Iraq Tariq Aziz

Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (K.I.A.)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (K.I.A.)
Abu Ayyub al-Masri (K.I.A.)
Muqtada al-Sadr
Abu Deraa
Ishmael Jubouri
Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i (P.O.W.)
Strength
Iraqi Security Forces
650,000 (Army: 273,000, Police: 227,000, FPS: 150,000)
United States Forces
50,000 (current)
Peshmerga
50,000 invasion
~375,000 current
Invasion Forces (2003–2004)
~300,000
Coalition Forces (2004–2010)
176,000 at peak


Awakening militias
~103,000 (2008)

Turkish Armed Forces: ~3,000–10,000

Total: ~365,000 (invasion)

Total: 1,347,970–1,354,970+ (current)

 Iraqi Army: 375,000 (disbanded in 2003)

Sunni Insurgents
~70,000 (2007)
Mahdi Army
~60,000 (2007)
al-Qaeda/others
~1,300 (2006)

PKK: ~4,000–8,000.
Casualties and losses
Iraqi Security Forces (post-Saddam): 11,900 killed
94 MIA/POW

Total: 375,000+ (invasion)

Total: 135,300–139,300+ (current) Coalition Forces
Killed: 4,735 (4,417 U.S., 179 U.K.,] 139 other)
Missing or captured (U.S.): 1
Wounded: 31,716 U.S., 315 U.K.
Injured/diseased/other medical:** 47,541 U.S., 3,598 U.K.

Contractors
Killed: 1,323 (U.S. 244)
Missing or captured: 16 (U.S. 5)
Wounded & injured: 10,569

Awakening Councils
Killed:760+

Turkish Armed Forces:
27 killed

Total killed: 18,795

 Iraqi combatant dead (invasion period): 13,500–45,000

Insurgents (post-Saddam): ~55,000

Detainees: 8,300 (U.S.-held)
24,200 (Iraqi-held)

PKK: 537 killed (Turkish claim), 9 killed (PKK claim), 230 (official army figures claim)
Documented "unnecessary" violent civilian deaths, Iraq Body Count – January 2009: 95,158–103,819

Total excess deaths, (Lancet) – December 2009: 1,366,350*** (highest estimate)