How many coalition troops died in iraq

The UK lost servicemen and women, of which were killed in action. Other coalition countries account for deaths according to the icasualties website. While coalition troop fatalities are reasonably well documented, deaths of Iraqi civilians and combatants are more difficult to track because of a lack of reliable official figures. All counts and estimates of Iraqi deaths are highly disputed.

The organisation Iraq Body Count has been collating civilian deaths using cross-checked media reports and other figures such as morgue records. According to IBC there have been between 97, and , civilian deaths up to July The most bloody period for civilian deaths was the month of invasion, March , in which IBC says 3, ordinary Iraqis lost their lives. A further 3, were killed in April of that year. The group says the difference between its higher and lower total figures is caused by discrepancies in reports about how many deaths resulted from an incident and whether they were civilians or combatants.

The number of United States troops who have died fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had passed 7, at the end of Approximately , national military and police from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraqi, and Syria allies have died. Western allies have also borne high human costs. They died in a host of ways. This is a decrease from a peak of casualties in Additional information on fatalities in the Iraq War The invasion of Iraq by the United States and coalition forces in March saw the beginning of the Iraq War, a conflict that would continue beyond the end of the decade.

Fatalities of American forces were highest in the first five years of conflict as soldiers grappled with the Al Qaeda as well as civil war between those groups seeking to fill the power vacuum left by the removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Casualties progressively decreased from , in part due to attempts by Barack Obama who made the removal of troops from Iraq a central promise of this successful campaign to succeed George W. In , the majority of Americans considered sending troops to fight in Iraq to be a mistake. While the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq War was much higher, the trend of numbers decreasing from onward was in line with the trend for American solider losses.

However, civilian deaths rose again from onward as Iraq returned to heavy conflict with Islamic State. The high number of American fatalities in the first five years of the Iraq War could be seen as influencing the reluctance of the United States to commit ground troop support in the battle against Islamic State when the issue was discussed in Not only is the loss of life a tragedy in itself, but the political discourse in the United States surrounding the involvement of their troops in Middle Eastern conflicts has made further involvement unattractive to elected officials.

However calls for further ground support are likely to continue as Iraq remained in the top five countries with the most terrorist attacks as of Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Several estimates based on randomly selected household surveys place the total death count among Iraqis in the hundreds of thousands. Several times as many Iraqi civilians may have died as an indirect result of the war, due to damage to the systems that provide food, health care and clean drinking water, and as a result, illness, infectious diseases, and malnutrition that could otherwise have been avoided or treated.

The war has compounded the ill effects of decades of harmful U.