Iraq War

Iraq War
	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 – 15 December 2011; (8 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)[dubious – discuss]
Location	Iraq
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; Subsequent depletion o Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security; 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;
Belligerents
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 Unitit States (03–11); Unitit Kinrick (03–11); Sooth Korea (03–08); Italy (03–06); Poland (03-08); Australie (03–09); Georgie (03–08); Ukraine (03–08); Netherlands (03–05); Spain (03–04); Estonie; 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.
Commanders an leaders
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
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); Iraqi Security Forces; 805,269 (militar an paramilitar: 578,269, polis: 227,000); Awakenin militias; ~103,000 (2008) ; Iraqi Kurdistan; ~400,000 (Kurdish Border Guard: 30,000, Peshmerga 375,000)	Iraqi Airmy: 375,000 (disbaundit in 2003) Sunni Insurgents; ~70,000 (2007); Mahdi Airmy; ~60,000 (2007) ; al-Qaeda; ~1,300 (2006); Islamic State o Iraq; ~1,000 (2008) ; Airmy o the Men o the Naqshbandi Order; ~500–1,000 (2007)
Casualties an losses
Iraqi Security Forces (post-Saddam); Killed: 16,623; Woondit: 40,000+; ; Coalition Forces; Killed: 4,805 (4,487 U.S., 179 UK, 139 ither); Missin/captured (U.S.): 8 (aw rescued) Woondit: 32,753+ (32,226 U.S., 315 UK, 212+ ither) Injured/diseased/ither medical*: 51,139 (47,541 U.S., 3,598 UK); ; Contractors; Killed: 1,554; Woondit & injured: 43,880; Awakenin Cooncils; Killed: 1,002+; Woondit: 500+ (2007), 828 (2008) Tot dead: 24,219 ; Tot woondit: 117,961	Iraqi combatant deid (invasion period): 7,600–11,000 Insurgents (post-Saddam); Killed: 21,221–26,405 (2003-2011); Detainees: 12,000 (Iraqi-held); Tot dead: 28,821–37,405
	Documented civilian daiths frae violence, Iraq Body Coont (2003 – 14 December 2011): 103,160–113,728 recordit an 12,438 new daiths addit frae the Iraq War Logs Estimatit violent daiths:; Lancet survey (Mairch 2003 – Julie 2006): 601,027 (95% CI: 426,369–793,663); Associated Press (Mairch 2003 – Aprile 2009): 110,600; Iraq Faimily Health Survey (Mairch 2003 – Julie 2006): 151,000 (95% CI: 104,000–223,000) ; 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.

The first wis an invasion o Iraq stairtin on 20 Mairch 2003 bi an invasion force led bi the Unitit States. It wis follaed bi a langer phase o fichtin, in which an insurgency emerged tae oppone the occupyin forces an the newly furmed Iraqi govrenment. The U.S. completit its widrawal o militar personnel in December 2011. Houiver, the Iraqi insurgency continues tae cause thoosands o fatalities.

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