The "shock and awe" campaign killed 7, Iraqi civilians in two months. No other period of America's years-long counterinsurgency or its air war against the Islamic State has approached this level of lethality. Hover over bar segments to see monthly figures. A wave of sectarian violence made the deadliest year for Iraqi civilians overall. Of known parties, the Islamic State has killed the most civilians.
June , the height of the Islamic State's conquest, marked the deadliest single month for Iraqi civilians. The initial months of the U. Rules of engagement matter.
Coalition forces fought three battles to retake the city of Fallujah from insurgents—twice in , and once in They killed far fewer civilians the third time.
Full Timeline: Explore the Data. Key Events. Read our other stories:. Memorial Day and Veterans. Hate Crimes. Refugees in America. In , the peer-reviewed journal, Conflict and Health , published "Iraq War Mortality Estimates: A Systematic Review," and found that the household survey method was superior to other forms of counting. Several other attempts have been made to estimate the war dead, and particularly civilians killed by violence. Iraq Body Count is the most well known.
It counted individuals reported in English-language newspapers, mainly, which severely limited its scope. The problem with these methods is that they only capture part of the total picture as with mrgue statistics , their "surveillance instrument" i. See the discussion of methods in the Conflict and Health article cited above. They are mainly useful for viewing trends. Wikileaks also released U. In , a group of scholars at Columbia University's School of Public Health published a comparison of the Wikileaks and Iraq Body Count estimates, and found a small percentage of single reported deaths overlapping--indicating that the total dead was significantly higher than either estimate held.
The number of displaced persons, both internal within Iraq and external refugees, mainly in Jordan and Syria ranged from estimates of 3. Virtually all first-hand accounts blamed violence as the cause of moving, or threats of ethnic or sectarian cleansing of neighborhoods. The ravages of displacement, which remains at about 3 million, are bad enough. But it is also another indicator of the scale of mortality. All wars since have ratios of displaced to fatalities of or less, typically more in the range of If this typical ratio holds for the Iraq War, that indicates mortality of about one million Iraqis.
Total "persons of concern" exceed 3 million. Health-related impacts on children in Iraq , from the Brussels Tribunal and Global Research, Canada, dewscribes the broad effects on children, including birth defects, cancer, denial of rights, etc. February Environmental Contaminants from War Remnants in Iraq , a well-documented report that focuses mainly on depleted uranium and its carcinogenic qualities. Birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq, rise markedly, says a medical study.
Fallujah, the largest city in Anbar province, was the scene of two enormous battles between US forces and "insurgents. Metal contamination: "Within less than a decade, the occurrence of congenital birth defects increased by an astonishing fold in the same hospital.
The withdrawal of U. Professor Juan Cole had this to say:. The American public still for the most part has no idea what the United States did to that country, and until we Americans take responsibility for the harm we do others with our perpetual wars, we can never recover from our war sickness, which drives us to resort to violence in international affairs in a way no other democracy routinely does.
Number of Iraqis killed in attacks in November Average monthly civilian deaths in Afghanistan War , first half of Percentage of Iraqis who lived in slum conditions in Number of the 30 million Iraqis living below the poverty line: 7 million.
Number of Iraqis who died of violence , to , Orphans in Iraq : 4. Number of women, mainly widows, who are primary breadwinners in family: 2 million. Iraqi refugees displaced by the American war to Syria: 1 million.
Internally displaced [pdf] persons in Iraq: 1. Rank of Iraq on Corruption Index among countries: War has a powerful impact on those who have lived through one, bending every calculation, every thought, every action to the possible consequences of violence, deprivation, displacement and the other ravages of conflict. Oddly, war has become a distant occurrence for most of us in the industrialized West. The armed forces of Canada and the United States are all-volunteer and have been for many years, so very few who are unwilling to go to war or work in war zones are actually forced to experience its maelstrom.
But the people who live in war zones do, of course. Many millions of them are directly affected by the violence, now for more than a decade in Afghanistan in its latest war and for nearly nine years in Iraq in a war that followed 12 years of crippling sanctions and the short but intense Operation Desert Storm.
The amount of public attention to Afghanistan and Iraq has declined steadily. We scarcely pay attention to what has happened to the native populations. There are, perhaps, political and psychological reasons for this indifference—a turning away from the violence, a mission gone bad, falsehoods proffered by politicians, and many others. But the indifference is unmistakable. The news media rarely describes the ruinous consequences of U.
Few, if any, novels, films or other cultural expressions attempt to capture this suffering either. But we forget at our peril. We should care about what happens to these people and their societies, not only for moral reasons, but also because forgetting has consequences. In fact, the numbers of fatalities are significantly higher and need to be studied for their implications.
Iraqi men mourn a relative, likely the victim of sectarian killing, who was found shot dead with 14 other people in May Witnesses reported seeing the men being arrested by interior ministry commandos at a market near Baghdad before being driven away. No one knows with certainty how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the United States invasion. Are you interested in testing our corporate solutions?
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Skip to main content Try our corporate solution for free! Single Accounts Corporate Solutions Universities. Between and October , the number of civilian deaths due to the Iraq war has fluctuated significantly.
As of October 31, there were documented civilian deaths in Civilian Deaths in the Iraq War Civilian casualties are the deaths of non-military individuals as a result of military operations. The number of documented civilian deaths in the Iraq war peaked in at 29, casualties. Since then, the number had fallen to 4, casualties documented in the year , and the number of casualties have been decreasing since Due to the nature of the Iraq war and of war reporting, data cannot be considered exact.
Many civilian deaths that occurred during the war in Iraq may remain unaccounted for.
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