The Iraq War or Gulf War II, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom in U.S. , Operation Telic in the UK and in other areas, the occupation of Iraq was a conflict that began on March 20, 2003 and ended on August 19, 2010, after the end of the war gave way to an operation of training Iraqi troops to combat the insurgency and terrorism in Iraq, this operation became known as Operation New Dawn which follows the end of the war in Iraq that began when the United States organized a multinational coalition to invade Iraq, made up of units of the armed forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, and smaller contingents from Australia, Spain, Denmark, Poland and other States.
Fusion Data Tables location of the death of soldiers (Wikileaks)
The invasion led to the rapid defeat of Iraqi forces, the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein his capture in December 2003 and its implementation in December 2006. The coalition led by the United States occupied Iraq tried to establish a new democratic government. However, shortly after the initial invasion, violence against coalition forces and among various ethnic groups led to asymmetric warfare with the Iraqi insurgency, civil war between Sunni and Iraqi Shiites , and operations of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Estimates of the number of people killed range from 150,000 to more than 1 million people, according to sources. The financial cost of war has been estimated at more $ 9,000 million) for the UK, and more than $ 845,000 million to the United States, with the total cost to the economy of the latter estimated at $ 3 to $ 5 billion. Some of the nations that formed the coalition forces began withdrawing because of adverse public opinion and the gradual increase in Iraqi forces to assume security responsibility.
number of civilians killed in the Iraq War (The points of yellow and purple correspond to attacks with explosions)
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