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The list for 2004, only includes incidents of deaths of soldiers because it was estimated that 1,040 policemen were killed during 2004. [693] January January 14 - A suicide bomber attacked a police station in Baqubah killing one soldier. [694] January 17 - Two soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad. [695]
Hampton died when the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter she was flying was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq on January 2, 2004. Captain Hampton was the first female military pilot in United States history to be shot down and killed as a result of hostile fire. [5] [6] [7] She was also the first female combat casualty in Iraq from South Carolina.
It estimated 24,000 war-related violent deaths by May 2004 (with a 95 percent confidence interval from 18,000 to 29,000). This study did not attempt to measure what portion of its estimate was made up of civilians or combatants. It would include Iraqi military killed during the invasion, as well as "insurgents" or other fighters thereafter. [158]
A U.S. military operation Thursday in Iraq killed at least 15 Islamic State militant group fighters, and at least six U.S. soldiers suffered injuries, three U.S. defense officials said.
21 April: At least 250 Iraqi women were executed by Islamic State fighters because they refused forced concubinage with fighters. [16] 27 April: IS drowned 7 civilians in metal cages. [17] 3 May: 17 people were executed for "refusing to fight Iraqi forces". [18] 5 May: 200 people were arrested and 25 executed for "escaping from the battles". [19]
The death toll in Iraq this year ranges from some 7,900 to 8,700 people so far, making 2013 the most deadly year for the country since 2008, according to IraqBodyCount.org, a U.K.-based website founded in 2003 and run by volunteers to record civilian deaths.
Casualties in the Iraq War, Insurgency, and Civil War (2003 – October 2016) An independent UK/US group, the Iraq Body Count project (IBC) compiles documented (not estimated) Iraqi civilian deaths from violence since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, including those caused directly by US-led coalition and Iraqi government forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by others. [1]
At least 31 members of the Iraqi security forces were killed, along with at least nine Kurdish Peshmerga fighters (actual numbers are unknown). [18] An estimated 600 insurgents were killed, along with five civilians, one South African security contractor, and one Turkish truck driver. Actual casualty figures remain unknown.