Fact Sheet: Iraqi War

• Length of official combat operation, Operation Iraqi Freedom: March 20–May 1, 2003.
• Deployment: More than 300,000 coalition troops deployed to the Gulf region: about 255,000 U.S., 45,000 British, 2,000 Australian, and 200 Polish troops (60 of whom served as combat soldiers).
• Post-conflict peace-keeping forces: About 130,000 U.S. and 11,000 British troops were stationed in Iraq following official end of hostilities, May 1. Forces in Iraq, May 2004: U.S. 110,000, Britain 8,220, Italy 2,950, Poland 2,500, Ukraine 1,650, Netherlands 1,300. In addition, 20 other countries have each contributed troops of less than 1,000.
• Coalition names for Operation Iraqi Freedom: UK, Operation Telic; Australia, Operation Falconer.
• Central Command, U.S. Forces (CENTCOM): Theater headquarters: Qatar. Troops stationed in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Diego Garcia, the Mediterranean, Arabian Sea, and Persian Gulf.
• U.S. casualties: Deaths March 20–May 1 (official end of hostilities): combat, 115; noncombat, 23; total, 138. Deaths March 20, 2003–April 27, 2005: combat, 1,198; noncombat, 372; total, 1,570.
• U.S. soldiers wounded in action: about 9,000 (Dec. 2004)
• American POWs: 8 (6 captured on March 23 in Nasiriya; 2 pilots shot down on March 24 near Karbala). All were rescued.
• Coalition casualties: Britain, 86; Italy, 1; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, 8; Slovakia, 3; Thailand, 2; Estonia, 2; The Netherlands, 2; Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Latvia, 1 each (April 27, 2005).
• U.S. cost of stationing troops in Iraq: $4 billion per month¹
• Iraqi civilian deaths: circa 11,797�?3,806 (Sept. 12, 2004)²