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Iraq War
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; an IED detonates in South Baghdad.
Date March 20, 2003 – present Location Iraq Status Conflict ongoing Occupation of Iraq Overthrow of Baath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein. Al-Qaeda operations in Iraq. Iraqi insurgency and outbreak of civil war. Legislative elections held in Iraq
Belligerents
Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) Baath Party Loyalists Mahdi Army al-Qaeda in Iraq Islamic Army of Iraq – Other Insurgent groups Alleged Support: Iran Syria North Korea Kurdistan Workers Party -	Iraq (post-Saddam Hussein) Peshmerga United States United Kingdom Other Coalition forces Awakening Councils  Turkey
Commanders and leaders
Saddam Hussein (POW)☠ Qusay Hussein ☠ Uday Hussein☠ – Muqtada al-Sadr Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri Ishmael Jubouri Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (KIA) Abu Ayyub al-Masri Murat Karayilan	Jalal Talabani Nouri al-Maliki Massoud Barzani George W. Bush Martin Dempsey Ray Odierno John Howard Kevin Rudd Tony Blair Gordon Brown Andy Salmon Abdul Sattar Abu Risha (KIA) Abdullah Gul Tayyip Erdogan Yaşar Büyükanıt
Strength
Post-Baathist government, multi-sided conflict: Sunni Insurgents ~70,000 Mahdi Army ~60,000 al Qaeda/others 1,300+ PKK: ~4,000	Iraqi Security Forces 631,000 (Army: 254,000, Police: 227,000, FPS: 150,000) Coalition Forces ~300,000 invasion ~152,000 current Peshmerga 50,000 invasion 270,000 current Contractors ~182,000 (118,000 Iraqi, 43,000 Other, 21,000 US) Awakening militias 65,000-80,000 Turkish Armed Forces: ~3,000-10,000 "Reconstruction report: 916 death claims for civilian contractors in Iraq"]. USA Today April 30, 2007.</ref> Contractors missing or captured (US 4): 18 Contractors wounded & injured: 10,569 Awakening Councils: 650+ killed Turkish Armed Forces: 27 killed
Casualties and losses
All Iraqi violent deaths, Opinion Research Business – August 2007: 1,033,000 (946,000-1,120,000) (gunshots 48%, car bombs 20%, aerial bombing 9%, accidents 6%, other blast/ordnance 6%) ***Total deaths (all excess deaths), (Lancet) – June 2006: 654,965 (392,979-942,636) 601,027 violent deaths (31% Coalition, 24% Others, 46% unknown) All Iraqi violent deaths, Iraqi Health Ministry casualty survey for the World Health Organization – June 2006: 151,000 (104,000-223,000)
*Contractors (U.S. government) perform "highly dangerous duties almost identical to those performed by many U.S. troops." ** "injured, diseased, or other medical" - required medical air transport. UK number includes wounded ("aeromed evacuations") ***Total deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc. For more see: Casualties of the Iraq War

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The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational force composed largely of United States and United Kingdom troops supported by smaller contingents from Australia, Denmark, Poland and other nations. All of the Arab states and a number of members of the NATO alliance did not publicly support the invasion, while some Eastern European states were willing to offer their public support.

Prior to the war, Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was claimed to pose a serious and imminent threat to the security of the United States and its coalition allies. This assessment was supported by the U.K. intelligence services, but not by other countries such as France, Russia and Germany. United Nations weapons inspectors found no evidence of WMD, giving support to earlier criticism of poor intelligence on Iraqi WMDs. After the invasion, the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its WMD programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they intended to resume production if the Iraq sanctions were

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