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As of July 19, 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,431 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 31,994 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Iraq War.
The Iraq War began in March 2003 as an invasion of Ba'athist Iraq by a force led by the United States. [19] [20] The Ba'athist government led by Saddam Hussein was toppled within a month. This conflict was followed by a longer phase of fighting in which an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government ...
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village ...
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis ), a private military company contracted by the United States government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy ...
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S.led invasion of Iraq. Then-President George W. Bush and his British counterpart, Prime Minister Tony Blair, signed off on a war based on the myth ...
3 years in prison (paroled after 1 year) The Maywand District murders were the thrill killings of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from January to May 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. The soldiers, who referred to themselves as the "Kill Team", [1] [2] were members of the 3rd Platoon, Bravo ...
Provincial governors. Ali Al-Haidri, Baghdad Governorate, assassinated by a group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi, Anbar Governorate, kidnapped during the Battle of al-Qa'im and killed May 2005. Osama Youssef Kashmoula, Ninawa Governorate, killed July 14, 2005. Khalil Jalil Hamza, Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate. Date. Victim.
Response. The ambush led to the First Battle of Fallujah, a U.S.-led operation to retake control of the city. However, the battle was halted mid-way for political reasons, an outcome which commentators have described as insurgent victory. [3] [4] [5] Seven months later, in November 2004, a second attempt at capturing the city, the Second Battle ...