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Iraq: events and estimated deaths in August 2024

Monthly reportDataset: UCDP GEDData through

This site shows the events of the last 24 months. The page of this month stays online with the totals that the site kept. The events are in the UCDP downloads.

Search engines are asked not to list this page. They list a monthly report when three things are true. The page of the country is listed. The month is one of the last 12 months. The month has 20 or more events.

UCDP recorded 25 events of organized violence in Iraq in August 2024. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 40. The low estimate is 40 and the high estimate is 52. UCDP counts 10 of these deaths as deaths of civilians.

Among the 26 months with a report for Iraq, August 2024 has the 6th highest count of events. Iraq holds 1 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in all countries with a page in August 2024.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

All months

Table 1. Monthly reports of Iraq, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20264P6PCandidate Events
August 20261P2PCandidate Events
July 20268P45PCandidate Events
June 20265P10PCandidate Events
May 20269P20PCandidate Events
April 20268P15PCandidate Events
March 202637P122PCandidate Events
February 20262P3PCandidate Events
January 20263P14PCandidate Events
December 202511GED
November 202511GED
October 202513GED
September 202512GED
August 2025315GED
July 202533GED
June 202536GED
May 20251217GED
April 202559GED
March 202567GED
February 20252726GED
January 20252847GED
December 20242128GED
November 20242330GED
October 20243077GED
September 20243236GED
August 20242540GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 20 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

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ConflictStats. Iraq: events and estimated deaths in August 2024. https://conflictstats.com/country/iraq/month/2024-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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