The public record of violent deaths following the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Documented civilian deaths from violence
179,069 – 200,604
Total violent deaths including combatants
268,000
- Another year of relentless violence in Iraq
- IBC’s 2016 analysis of civilian deaths 12 Jan 2017
- Lest we forget
- 30 Dec 2016
- UK showed no real interest in monitoring civilian casualties
- Besieged: Living and Dying in Fallujah
- Iraq: wars and casualties, 13 years on
- Iraq 2015: A Catastrophic Normal
- Earlier analysis from IBC…
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Iraq Body Count maintains the world’s largest public database of violent civilian deaths since the 2003 invasion, as well as separate running total which includes combatants.
IBC's data is drawn from cross-checked media reports, hospital, morgue, NGO and official figures or records (see About IBC). You can contribute to IBC's work in several ways, including with a donation.
“We don’t do body counts”
General Tommy FranksIraq Body Count
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Sunday 17 September: 7 killedMuharibeen village west of Mosul: 3 killed, 23 injured, including women and children in booby-trap bomb explosion at a school being used to train pro-government volunteer tribal fighters (of whom up to 12 were also killed) Seidy Abdullah neighbourhood southern Baghdad: 1 killed, 4 injured in IED explosion targeting shops Dar Revolution, west of Mosul: 2, the headless bodies of a husband and wife found Alexandria, north of Babylon: 1 body found of a woman in her fifties with wounds
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Saturday 16 September: 23 killedal-Adan neighbourhood, Kirkuk: 3 killed, 10 injured by late-night car bomb outside alcohol seller's shop Akashat, western Anbar: 6 members of popular mobilisation force by IED Tal-Afar or Qaim: 2 deserters executed by ISIS Muqdadiyah, northeast of Diyala: 2, a civilian and a police officer killed, 7 others injured by suicide bomber attack near shopping mall al-Jihad neighbourhood, western Baghdad: 1 government employee by IED placed in his car Ameriyah, north of Baquba: 1 body found of an unidentified young man, showing signs of hanging, dumped in farmland North of Baquba: 2 bodies found of men with gunshot wounds to the head and chest Ramadi: 1 killed, another injured, by roadside bomb Hawija outskirts: 5 family members of an ISIS militant, including 2 children, killed by roadside bomb while fleeing the city on foot [update]
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