Iraq Body Count project

At least 200,000 civilians in Iraq were killed.

That's according to the Iraq Body Count project, a group based in the UK.

This withdrawal was agreed to in 2024 under President Joe Biden.

James, a reminder, this is the second time [laughs] American forces have withdrawn from Iraq.

More than 4,500 U.S. troops died in Iraq, around twice as many as in the parallel war in Afghanistan.

The Iraq Body Count Project says more than 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed.

The Pentagon said the United States and its coalition partners formally concluded Operation Inherent Resolve, and Washington would continue to provide targeted training and intelligence support to Iraqi partners.

The Iraqis are expected to lead the effort to secure the country, an ally of both Washington and Tehran, and keep the remnants of Islamic State suppressed.

More than 4,500 US soldiers have died in Iraq since 2003.

The Iraq Body Count Project estimates that more than 200,000 Iraqi civilians have died Africa In Uganda, a former television presenter has been crowned king of the Tooro Kingdom.

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And then the soldiers I first met were told it would take six weeks and they'd be home.

And then there was a security vacuum, an insurgency, and it dragged on for years and led to a civil war in which a group called Iraq Body Count says at least 200,000 civilians were killed.

And some of those were killed, a lot of them were killed by American soldiers because they got too close to a convoy or they misunderstood hand signals.

There were so many places in their own country Iraqis couldn't go.