Casualties in Iraq
The Human Cost of Occupation
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American Military Casualties in Iraq
Date	Total	In Combat
Page last updated 07/2/09 7:18 pm EDT
List of U.S. Servicemembers killed since 5/1/03
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Iraqi Casualties
Others
Other Coalition Troops - Iraq	318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan	716
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan	487
Journalists - Iraq	138
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq	1,360
Sources: DoD, MNF, and iCasualties.org
The Faces The List Sources American Casualties Iraqi Casualties Contact U.S. lacks mechanism to accurately track troops wounded in Iraq Also see The Missing Wounded. American Count Dates and sources of Americans killed in Iraq since 5/1/03 are documented in this file. Admittedly the file is incomplete, for the Department of Defense does not maintain old records. All data was compiled from http://www.defenselink.mil. If something is amiss in the data collection, please contact Margaret Griffis. Iraqi Civilian Count We maintain a daily count based on news reports. It is not intended to be complete. There is no agency that keeps track of accurate numbers of Iraqis killed. JustForeignPolicy maintains a running estimate based on the Lancet study with the rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count. Comparing Civilian Casualty Studies Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy explains the similarities between the Lancet and the the Orb estimates. Numbers from the Iraq Body Count site and the study published in the Lancet are compared at OpenDemocracy.net. The BBC published an article, which includes a response from IBC, that criticizes the large Lancet figures. Middle East expert Juan Cole also gives his opinion on the Lancet study here. Sources and Links US Military Deaths by Month from Icasualties.org Faces of the Fallen Department of Defense Central Command JustForeignPolicy Icasualties.org Count BBC Figures Juan Cole Journalist Deaths in Iraq Cost of War