Fallen American soldiers in Iraq up to 2020

As of March 2021, 11 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq in 2020. This is a decrease from a peak of 904 casualties in 2007.Additional information on fatalities in the Iraq WarThe invasion of Iraq by the United States 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. Casualties progressively decreased from 2008, in part due to attempts by Barack Obama who made the removal of troops from Iraq a central promise of this successful campaign to succeed George W. Bush. In 2013, the majority of Americans considered sending troops to fight in Iraq to be a mistake.While the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq War was much higher, the trend of numbers decreasing from 2008 onward was in line with the trend for American solider losses. However, civilian deaths rose again from 2013 onward as Iraq returned to heavy conflict with Islamic State. The high number of American fatalities in the first five years of the Iraq War could be seen as influencing the reluctance of the United States to commit ground troop support in the battle against Islamic State when the issue was discussed in 2015. Not only is the loss of life a tragedy in itself, but the political discourse in the United States surrounding the involvement of their troops in Middle Eastern conflicts has made further involvement unattractive to elected officials. However calls for further ground support are likely to continue as Iraq remained in the top five countries with the most terrorist attacks as of 2019.

截至2021年3月，2020年共有11名美军士兵在伊拉克丧生。这一数字较2007年达到的904人伤亡峰值有所下降。关于伊拉克战争中的伤亡情况，2003年3月美国及其联军入侵伊拉克，标志着伊拉克战争的开始，这场冲突持续至本世纪的结束。美国军队的伤亡情况在冲突的前五年最为严重，当时士兵们不仅要应对基地组织，还要应对伊拉克领导人萨达姆·侯赛因被推翻后产生的权力真空所引发的各派别间的内战。伤亡人数自2008年起逐渐减少，部分原因是巴拉克·奥巴马总统将撤军承诺作为其竞选活动中的重要承诺之一，成功接替乔治·W·布什。2013年，大多数美国人认为向伊拉克派遣军队作战是一个错误。尽管伊拉克战争中的平民伤亡人数远高于美军，但从2008年起伤亡人数逐渐减少的趋势与美军伤亡趋势相一致。然而，自2013年起，随着伊拉克与伊斯兰国重新陷入激烈冲突，平民伤亡人数再次上升。伊拉克战争前五年美军的高伤亡人数可能影响了美国在2015年讨论对伊斯兰国进行地面作战支持时的犹豫不决。生命损失本身即为悲剧，但美国围绕其在中东冲突中派遣军队的政治辩论，使得进一步的军事介入对当选官员而言缺乏吸引力。然而，鉴于伊拉克截至2019年仍位居恐怖袭击最频繁的五国之首，呼吁提供更多地面支持的声音预计将持续下去。