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Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013) The Iraqi insurgency was an insurgency that began in late 2011 after the end of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, resulting in violent conflict with the central government, as well as low-level sectarian violence among Iraq 's religious groups. The insurgency was a direct continuation of ...
Date. 1 May 2003 – 18 December 2011. (8 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 3 days) Location. Iraq. Result. Inconclusive. 2003–2006 insurgency phase deteriorates into 2006–2008 civil war. 20,000+ additional American soldiers deployed to Iraq to quell violence in troop surge of 2007.
- 1 May 2003 – 18 December 2011, (8 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
- Iraq
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Iraq Body Count
An independent UK/US group, the Iraq Body Count project (IBC) compiles documented (not estimated) Iraqi civilian deaths from violence since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, including those caused directly by US-led coalition and Iraqi government forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by others.It shows a total range of at least 175,792 to 196,572 civilian deaths in the whole conflict from March 2003 to June 2017. Following are the monthly IBC Project civilian death totals, from the US pullo...
Iraqi government figures
The Iraqi government releases its own figures, usually on the first day of each month. These are almost always significantly lower than other estimates and often even contradict with news reports, leading to an apparent "under-reporting" of casualty figures, although after the escalation of violence in the summer of 2013 the casualty tolls began to "catch up" with independent estimates. Most news outlets still report on these, and JustPolicy.org has a running estimate based on the Lancet stud...
United Nations figures
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) keeps its own statistics on casualties. They include killed and injured civilians (including police) and killed and injured members of Iraqi Security Forces (including Peshmergaand militias fighting alongside the Iraqi Army). They don't include anti-government insurgents. UNAMI warns that it may be under-reporting casualties and that the figures it provides "have to be considered as the absolute minimum". According to UNAMI, the total num...
Antiwar.com
Antiwar.comcompiles monthly and yearly casualty figures from news reports. Figures include civilians, security personnel and insurgents. In July 2014, according to Antiwar.com, 5,698 people were killed, including 3,961 insurgents. The rest were civilians and security forces. For the following month, Antiwar.com reported 1,642 civilians and security forces and 3,112 militants died. In September, per Antiwar.com, 1,158 civilians and security forces were killed, along with 2,632 militants.Finall...
US-led coalition air-strike casualties
Since 8 August 2014, the USA has resumed airstrikes against ISIL targets in support of the Iraqi government, together with a growing coalition of allies (comprising Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, The Netherlands, and UK). According to Iraq Body Count, 118 civilians were killed by coalition airstrikes in 2014 and 845 in 2015.According to "Airwars", a team of independent journalists, between 393 and 571 civilians were killed by coalition airstrikes in 54 incidents in Iraq...
This section includes both AFP and Iraqi government estimates, and as such, is intended as an addition to the tables above.
The 20 March 2012 Iraq attacks were the sixth simultaneous wave of bombings to hit Iraq during the insurgency and the second such major assault since the US withdrawal at the end of 2011. At least 50 people were killed and around 250 wounded in highly coordinated attacks spread out in at least 10 cities. The deadliest attack of the day took ...
Iraqi insurgency. Part of the Iraqi conflict (2003–present) U.S. and Kuwaiti troops unite to close the gate between Kuwait and Iraq after the last military convoy passed through on Dec. 18, 2011, signaling the end of Operation New Dawn and the beginning of the post-U.S. phase of the insurgency. Date. 18 December 2011 – 30 December 2013.
Aug 23, 2011 · Such attacks are by definition low-lethality: they are intended to intimidate as much as they are to kill. They are also the inevitable epilogue of a violent and protracted civil war in which some members of each community sided with the Iraqi government and the U.S.-led coalition while others backed the insurgency. Now the scores must be settled.
