Ever since the unresolved conflict in Iraq begun in 2003, many deaths had recorded.  Reports showed that the total number of war casualties reached almost over half a million.

When United States-led coalition assaulted Iraq in March 19, 2003, ground wars began that culminated in the speedy capture of Baghdad and coup the regime led by Saddam Hussein. It lasted until 2011 that marked by repeated bombings, militia warfare, al Qaeda-linked insurrection and other bloodshed in the nation with 32.6 million population. It highly contributed to the increasing number of Iraq war casualties.

Based on an international study that surveyed heads of households and siblings across Iraq, rejoinders point to around 405,000 deaths creditable to the war and occupation from 2003 to 2011. At least another 56,000 estimated deaths should be added to that total from households coerced to flee Iraq. More than sixty percent of the Iraq war casualties of men, women and children were directly caused by the shootings, airstrikes, bombings and other war related violence. And the rest came from the war related stresses and causes.

The study also showed that almost 4,804 coalition armed service members died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The wide variation in the estimated number of Iraq war casualties raised some eyebrows on different polling agencies. A London-based polling agency estimated 1.2 million Iraq war casualties through 2007. In 2005, then US President George W. Bush commented that only an estimated 30,000 Iraqi civilians had died in the war.

The death toll was carefully tracked and updated for the US-led multinational coalition troops and there were a total of 4,486 US service members that were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2012.

The overall war casualties result point to Baghdad as the epicenter of the violent deaths during the conflict. Militias were blamed for thirty-two percent of killings and thirty-five percent to the coalition forces.

Wretchedly, the unresolved conflict still continues as the violence as well. This year, an estimated 5,000 Iraq war casualties were reported caused by the shootings and bombings.  Still, the numbers of the actual Iraq war casualties varies from 400,000 to almost 5 million alleged deaths.

However today, living in Iraq is no longer about how many Iraq war casualties have noted and recorded but on how these future deaths be prevented and the violence of the war be stopped.