The data displays the number of U.S. soldier fatalities in the Iraq War in the period between 2003 and 2018. In 2018, eleven U.S. soldiers died in Iraq.
Additional information on fatalities in the Iraq War The invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and coalition forces in March 2003 saw the beginning of the Iraq War, a conflict that would continue beyond the end of the decade. Fatalities of American forces were highest in the first five years of conflict as soldiers grappled with the Al Qaeda as well as civil war between those groups seeking to fill the power vacuum left by the removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
2003 | 486 |
2004 | 849 |
2005 | 846 |
2006 | 823 |
2007 | 904 |
2008 | 314 |
2009 | 149 |
2010 | 60 |
2011 | 54 |
2012 | 1 |
2014 | 3 |
2015 | 6 |
2016 | 18 |
2017 | 17 |
2018 | 11 |