The public record of violent deaths following the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Documented civilian deaths from violence
179,357 – 200,961
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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Monday 9 October: 3 killedZaafaraniya, southeast of Baghdad: 1 killed, 2 injured by bomb planted near electric generator Diyala: 1 Arab tribal chief beheaded by ISIS, allegedly for supporting Kurdish referendum Zaafaraniya, southeast of Baghdad: 1 shot with silencers by gunmen on motorbike |
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Sunday 8 October: 62 killedHaditha, western Anbar: 1 Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Education and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Anbar shot by gunmen in speeding car as he left his home Central Shirqat: 1 woman killed, a man wounded, by mortar from unknown assailants striking their home in the evening
Hassan Kui district, west of Mosul: 60 more bodies found in an ISIS mass grave, whose IDs showed them to be residents of Mosul and Tal Afar, shot in head and chest
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