This is a comprehensive list of Iraqi security forces members killed in the Iraq War. There are also totals here for each year.
The "Iraq Index" of the Brookings Institution also keeps a running total of Iraqi security force casualties.[1]
The highest reported number of policemen and soldiers killed in the war has been 15,196 for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 (with the exceptions of April 2004 and March 2009).[2] With the previously reported 260 policemen[3] and 23 Kurdish peshmerga fighters killed in 2003,[4] and 67 dead in March 2009,[5] and a further 1,100 deaths in 2010,[6] and 897 deaths in 2011, the total number of security forces members killed can be estimated to be at least 17,543.
2017
Update needed.
Transcript of brett mcgurk presser suggests 2,000 Peshmerga killed and 10,000 Iraqi forces in fight against ISIS.
https://isis.liveuamap.com/en/2017/15-september-transcript-of-brett-mcgurk-presser-suggests
2009
Fatalities
Period
|
Police
|
Military
|
Total per period
|
December
|
48
|
13
|
61[29]
|
November
|
22
|
12
|
34[30]
|
October
|
42
|
25
|
67[31]
|
September
|
38
|
40
|
78[32]
|
August
|
48
|
15
|
63[33]
|
July
|
40
|
12
|
52[34]
|
June
|
57
|
11
|
68[35]
|
May
|
25
|
6
|
31[36]
|
April
|
41
|
24
|
65[37]
|
March
|
53
|
14
|
67[5]
|
February
|
30
|
17
|
47[38]
|
January
|
24
|
27
|
51[39]
|
TOTAL
|
468
|
216
|
684
|
Note: One report stated that 242 soldiers were killed in 2009, a higher number than the one given in the month by month breakdown.[40] Also, a second report put the overall number of security forces killed in 2009, at 1,193. Almost double the toll claimed by the Iraqi government.[41]
2006
1,348-1,891 policemen and 627 soldiers were killed during 2006.[690]
2005
1,497 policemen and an estimated 1,096 soldiers were killed during 2005.[691][692]
2004
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]
- January 29 - One soldier was killed when his checkpoint was attacked south of Kirkuk.[696]
- January 30 - Three soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked in Mosul.[697]
- February
- February 11 - A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi Army recruiting station killing 47 recruits in Baghdad.[698]
- February 14 - 10 soldiers were killed when a police station was overrun in Fallujah.[699]
- March
- March 8 - Three soldiers were killed when they were ambushed while on their way to work in Baghdad.[700]
- March 17 - One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul.[701]
- March 22 - One soldier was killed by a car bomb at Anaconda air base in Balad.[702]
- March 26 - Four soldiers were killed during a raid in Tikrit.[703]
- April
- April 4 - Three soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded near their checkpoint in Samarra.[704]
- April 9 - One soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on the ICDC Headquarters in Samarra.[705]
- April 15 - Two soldiers were killed in an ambush in Kirkuk.[706]
- April 16 - One soldier was killed in a mortar attack south of Fallujah.[707]
- May
- May 2 - Two soldiers were killed in Baghdad.[708]
- May 12 - One soldier was killed in Baqubah.[709]
- May 15 - Gunmen attacked a military recruiting station in Mosul killing four recruits.[710]
- May 21 - Four soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked in Baqubah.[711]
- May 29 - One soldier was killed in Kirkuk.[712]
- May 31 - One soldier was killed when his checkpoint was attacked northeast of Baghdad.[713]
- June
- June 1 - A suicide bomber attacked a military base in Baiji killing seven soldiers.[714]
- June 17 - A car bomb attack on an Iraqi Army recruiting station killed 35 recruits in Baghdad.[715]
- June 18 - Six soldiers were killed when a car bomb exploded at their checkpoint north of Baghdad.[716]
- June 24 - Various insurgent attacks in the country killed five soldiers.[717][718]
- June 27 - Six soldiers were killed in fighting outside Baqubah.[719]
- July
- July 3 - Six soldiers were killed by a bomb at their checkpoint south of Baghdad.[720]
- July 9 - One soldier was killed along with five Americans in a mortar attack on a military headquarters in Samarra.[715]
- July 14 - A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the British Embassy and the interim Iraqi government's headquarters in Baghdad killing four soldiers.[721]
- July 17 - A suicide bomber attacked an ING base killing two soldiers in Mahmudiya.[722]
- July 29 - Seven soldiers were killed during a raid near Suwaira.[723]
- August
- August 3 - Various insurgent attacks in the country killed seven soldiers.[715][724]
- August 5-August 27 - Four soldiers were killed during the Battle of Najaf.[725]
- August 8 - One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north-east of Baghdad.[726]
- September
- September 6 - Three soldiers were killed along with seven U.S. Marines when a car bomb hit their convoy on the outskirts of Fallujah.
- September 15 - One soldier was killed by a car bomb in Suwayrah.[727]
- September 18 - A suicide bomber attacked the ING headquarters in Kirkuk killing 19 soldiers and recruits.[728]
- September 19 - Three captured soldiers were executed in Mosul. One soldier was killed by a car bomb in Samarra.[729][730]
- September 22 - A suicide bomber attacked an ING recruiting station killing 11 recruits in Baghdad.[730]
- September 25 - Seven captured Army recruits were executed in Baghdad. A U.S. soldier is facing 25 years of jail for the killing of a soldier in May.[730]
- September 28 - Various insurgent attacks in the country killed eight soldiers.[731]
- October
- October 9–11 soldiers were killed in an attack on the ING compound in Karabilah.[730]
- October 19 - Four soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on an ING headquarters near Taji.[732]
- October 23 - 49 captured Army recruits were beheaded near Kirkuk. Various insurgent attacks in and near Samarra killed six soldiers.[730][733]
- October 29 - 11 captured soldiers were executed.[715]
- November
- November 3 - Three captured soldiers were beheaded.[715]
- November 6 - An Army commander is killed in an attack in Samarra.[730]
- November 7-December 23 - 11 soldiers were killed in the Second Battle of Fallujah.
- November 8-November 16–26 soldiers were killed during the Battle of Mosul and another 76 were captured and executed.
- November 12 - One soldier was killed when his post was attacked in Baqubah.[715]
- November 15 - Five soldiers were killed in attacks in Suwaira.[715]
- November 20 - An Army recruit was killed in Baqubah.[730]
- November 21 - 17 captured soldiers were executed in Kisik. Nine soldiers were killed when their convoy was ambushed in Ramadi.[730]
- November 23 - One soldier was killed in Kirkuk.[734]
- November 25 - Three soldiers were killed when their convoy was ambushed near Mosul.[734]
- December
- December 3 - An Army captain was killed in Karbala.[730]
- December 4 - A suicide bomber attacked a Kurdish militia bus killing 18 soldiers in Mosul.[730]
- December 5 - Various insurgent attacks in the country killed six soldiers.[730]
- December 7 - Three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad.[730]
- December 8 - The body of an executed soldier was found in the Hillah river, south of Baghdad.[735]
- December 11 - Seven soldiers were killed in an attack on their bus in Hit.[730]
- December 14 - Various insurgent attacks in the country killed five soldiers.[730]
- December 16 - Three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad.[730]
- December 21 - A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military base in Mosul killing four soldiers along with 18 Americans.
- December 25 - Five soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul.[730]
- December 26 - Five captured soldiers were executed in Ramadi.[736]
- December 28 - Five soldiers were killed by a car bomb in Baqubah.[715]
2003
260 policemen were killed between May 1, 2003, and the end of the year. 23 Kurdish militiamen were killed during the initial invasion of Iraq.[737][738][739]