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Belligerents. Invasion phase (2. United States United Kingdom Australia Poland. Peshmerga. Support from: Netherlands[1]Invasion phase (2. Ba'athist Iraq. Post- invasion(2. United States United Kingdom. New Iraqi government. Supported by: Iran[2][3] Iraqi Kurdistan.

Post- invasion (2. Ba'ath loyalists. Sunni insurgents. Shia insurgentssupported by: Iran.

For fighting between insurgent groups, see Sectarian violence in Iraq (2. Commanders and 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. Barack Obama.

Tommy Franks. Donald Rumsfeld. Robert Gates. Tony Blair. Gordon Brown. David Cameron. José María Aznar.

John Howard. Kevin Rudd. Walter Natynczyk. Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

Silvio Berlusconi. Ba'ath Party. Saddam Hussein (POW)Izzat Ibrahim ad- Douri. Sunni insurgency. Abu Musab al- Zarqawi †Abu Ayyub al- Masri †Abu Omar al- Baghdadi †Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi. Ishmael Jubouri. Abu Abdullah al- Shafi'i (POW)Shia insurgency. Muqtada al- Sadr.

Abu Deraa. Qais al- Khazali. Akram al- Kabi. Strength. Invasion forces(2.

United States: 1. United Kingdom: 4. Australia: 2,0. 00 Poland: 1. Peshmerga: 7. 0,0. Coalition forces(2. United States Forces – Iraq(2.

Security contractors 6,0. Iraqi security forces. Awakening militias≈1. Iraqi Kurdistan≈4.

Kurdish Border Guard: 3. Peshmerga 3. 75,0. Iraqi Armed Forces: 3. Special Iraqi Republican Guard: 1. Iraqi Republican Guard: 7.

Fedayeen Saddam: 3. Sunni Insurgents≈7. Qaeda≈1,3. 00 (2.

Islamic State of Iraq≈1,0. Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order≈5. Casualties and losses. Iraqi Security Forces (post- Saddam)Killed: 1. Wounded: 4. 0,0. 00+[2. Coalition forces.

Killed: 4,8. 15[2. U. S.,[2. 6] 1. 79 UK,[2.

Missing/captured (U. S.): 1. 7 (8 rescued, 9 died in captivity)[2. Wounded: 3. 2,7. 76+ (3. U. S.,[2. 9] 3. 15 UK, 2. Injured/diseases/other medical*: 5.

U. S.,[3. 5] 3,5. UK)[3. 1][3. 3][3. Contractors. Killed: 1,5. Wounded & injured: 4. Awakening Councils.

Killed: 1,0. 02+[3. Wounded: 5. 00+ (2. Total dead: 2. 5,2. Total wounded: 1. Iraqi combatant dead (invasion period): 7,6. Insurgents (post- Saddam)Killed: 2.

Detainees: 1. 2,0. Iraqi- held)[4. 4]Total dead: 3. Estimated deaths: Lancet survey** (March 2. July 2. 00. 6): 6. CI: 3. 92,9. 79–9.

Iraq Family Health Survey*** (March 2. July 2. 00. 6): 1. CI: 1. 04,0. 00–2. PLOS Medicine Study**: (March 2. June 2. 01. 1): 4.

CI: 4. 8,0. 00–7. Documented deaths from violence: Iraq Body Count (2. December 2. 01. 1): 1. Iraq War Logs[5. 0]Associated Press (March 2. Watch Love And Mary Online Flashx.

April 2. 00. 9): 1. For more information see: Casualties of the Iraq War* "injured, diseased, or other medical": required medical air transport. UK number includes "aeromed evacuations"**Total excess deaths include all additional deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poorer healthcare, etc.***Violent deaths only - does not include excess deaths due to increased lawlessness, poorer healthcare, etc.

The Iraq War,[nb 1] also known as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2. Iraq by a United States- led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post- invasion Iraqi government.[5. An estimated 1. 51,0. Iraqis were killed in the first 3–4 years of conflict. The U. S. became re- involved in 2. The invasion occurred under the pretext of a declared war against international terrorism and its sponsors under the administration of US President George W.

Bush following the September 1. The invasion began on 2. March 2. 00. 3,[5. U. S., joined by the United Kingdom and several coalition allies, launching a "shock and awe" bombing campaign. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as U. S. forces swept through the country. The invasion led to the collapse of the Ba'athist government; Saddam was captured during Operation Red Dawn in December of that same year and executed by a military court three years later.

However, the power vacuum following Saddam's demise and the mismanagement of the occupation led to widespread sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis, as well as a lengthy insurgency against U. S. and coalition forces. Many violent insurgent groups were supported by Iran and al- Qaeda in Iraq. The United States responded with a troop surge in 2. The winding down of U.

S. involvement in Iraq accelerated under President Barack Obama. The U. S. formally withdrew all combat troops from Iraq by December 2. The Bush administration based its rationale for the war principally on the assertion that Iraq, which had been viewed by the US as a rogue state since the Persian Gulf War, possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that the Iraqi government posed an immediate threat to the United States and its coalition allies.[5. Select U. S. officials accused Saddam of harbouring and supporting al- Qaeda,[5. Iraq.[5. 8][5. 9] After the invasion, no substantial evidence was found to verify the initial claims about WMDs, while claims of Iraqi officials collaborating with al- Qaeda were proven false. The rationale and misrepresentation of US prewar intelligence faced heavy criticism both domestically and internationally, with President Bush declining from his record- high approval ratings following 9/1.

US history.[6. 0]In the aftermath of the invasion, Iraq held multi- party elections in 2. Nouri al- Maliki became Prime Minister in 2. The al- Maliki government enacted policies that were widely seen as having the effect of alienating the country's Sunni minority and worsening sectarian tensions. In the summer of 2.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a military offensive in Northern Iraq and declared a worldwide Islamic caliphate, eliciting another military response from the United States and its allies. The Iraq War caused hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and thousands of military casualties (see estimates below).

The majority of casualties occurred as a result of the insurgency and civil conflicts between 2. Background[edit]Western arming of Iraq[edit]A 1. Frontline report on "The arming of Iraq" said, "Officially, most Western nations participated in a total arms embargo against Iraq during the 1. Western companies, primarily in Germany and Great Britain, but also in the United States, sold Iraq the key technology for its chemical, missile, and nuclear programs.

M]any Western governments seemed remarkably indifferent, if not enthusiastic, about those deals. I]n Washington, the government consistently followed a policy which allowed and perhaps encouraged the extraordinary growth of Saddam Hussein's arsenal and his power."[6. The Western arming of Iraq took place in the context of the Iran- Iraq War, which had seen NATO lose a valuable ally in Iran after the Iranian Revolution. Iraq disarmament and pre- war intelligence[edit]Prior to September 2.

CIA was the George W. Bush administration's main provider of intelligence on Iraq. In September, a Pentagon unit called the Office of Special Plans (OSP) was created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and headed by Feith, as charged by then- United States Secretary of Defense.

Donald Rumsfeld, to supply senior Bush administration officials with raw intelligence pertaining to Iraq.[6. Seymour Hersh writes that, according to a Pentagon adviser, "[OSP] was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wanted to be true—that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclearweapons (WMD) that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.