TOTALS:
U.S. AND BRITISH MILITARY CASUALTIES
-- 91 U.S. killed and 14 missing (**)
-- 30 British killed.
IRAQI CASUALTIES
-- Iraqi military -- At least 2,320 (U.S. military estimates
for Baghdad alone).
-- Iraqi civilians -- At least 1,252 killed. (Minimum Iraqi
estimates as of April 3)
- NOTE: Official figures usually lag behind actual battlefield casualties. Does not include unspecified number of deaths from bombing of Kurdish and U.S. special forces convoy on April 6.
April 2 -- F/A-18 Hornet single-seat fighter-bomber downed in southern Iraq, pilot missing. Possible it was shot down by U.S. Patriot missile.
April 4/5 -- At least one soldier is killed in the battle for Baghdad airport.
April 5 -- The Pentagon identifies eight more soldiers killed in an ambush on March 23.
April 6 -- One soldier killed northwest of Baghdad when Iraqi fighters ambush a military convoy.
April 7 -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 15 others wounded (as well as two journalists) in an Iraqi attack on the 2nd Brigade's tactical operation center in the southern outskirts of Baghdad. A further six servicemen were missing.
-- The Pentagon identified six of the casualties killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in central Iraq on April 2. The incident remains under investigation.
BRITISH MILITARY IN COMBAT:
April 3 -- Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said 39 British casualties were being treated on the ground and a further 35 had been evacuated from the region.
April 6 -- Three British soldiers were killed in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, taking the British death toll in the war against Iraq to 30, the defense ministry said.
IRAQI MILITARY:
April 5 -- U.S. says 320 Iraqi soldiers killed in battle for Baghdad airport.
April 6 -- U.S. military says its forces killed over 2,000 Iraqi fighters in Baghdad since its troops attacked the city's outskirts.
IRAQI CIVILIANS:
April 2 -- Iraq says overnight bombing by U.S.-led forces killed 24 civilians and injured 186 across the country.
April 3 -- Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said more than 1,250 civilians have been killed and 5,000 injured since March 20, the start of the war.
U.S. AND BRITISH NON-COMBAT DEATHS:
April 3 -- Three U.S. soldiers killed when an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter plane may have accidentally bombed a U.S. artillery position south of Baghdad.
-- A U.S. soldier of the Army's 5th Corp killed by possible "friendly fire" in central Iraq. It appears he was mistaken for an enemy soldier while investigating a destroyed Iraqi tank.
April 5 -- Two U.S. Marine pilots killed when their AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed in central Iraq. Indications that it was not a result of hostile fire.
April 6 -- A U.S. plane mistakenly bombed a convoy of U.S. special forces and Kurdish fighters, killing 18 Kurds and wounding over 45, including the brother of Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.
April 7 -- Two U.S. Marines were killed and three injured in a friendly fire incident in fighting to secure two bridges over a river -- identified as the Nahr Diyala, a tributary of the Tigris on the edge of Baghdad.
JOURNALISTS & MEDIA STAFF KILLED:
March 22 -- Australian cameraman Paul Moran killed by car bomb in northern Iraq.
March 22 -- Terry Lloyd, journalist from Britain's Independent Television News, killed after coming under fire on way to Basra. Cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein Othman, traveling with Lloyd, are missing.
April 2 -- Kaveh Golestan, an Iranian freelance cameraman working for the BBC killed when he stepped on a land mine. He had been filming at Kifri.
April 3 -- Michael Kelly, former editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly, was killed with a U.S. soldier in an accident involving their Humvee military jeep.
April 6 -- Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a Kurdish translator working for the BBC, died when a U.S. jet apparently bombed a convoy of American special forces and Kurdish fighters not far from the town of Kalak.
April 7 -- Two journalists, German Christian Liebig of the weekly magazine Focus and Spaniard Julio Anguita Parrado of the newspaper El Mundo, were killed in an Iraqi missile strike. They were with the U.S. 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division in the southern outskirts of Baghdad. Two U.S. soldiers also died in the attack.
April 8 -- Tarek Ayoub, a producer and correspondent for Al-Jazeera television, is killed in a U.S. air raid on Baghdad. A second Jazeera correspondent was slightly wounded.
April 8 -- Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian national based in Warsaw, and Spanish television cameraman Jose Couso, 37, who worked for Tele 5, died after a U.S. tank fired at the Palestine Hotel, base for much of the foreign media in Baghdad. Three other Reuters staff were wounded.
NON-IRAQIS:
March 23 -- Syria said U.S. and British aircraft bombed a bus carrying Syrian civilian workers returning home from Iraq, killing five and wounding an unspecified number.
April 8 -- A rocket, apparently fired in the war in Iraq, killed one person in southwestern Iran, according to Iran's student news agency ISNA.
MISSING:
March 22 -- Two journalists from Britain's Independent Television News missing after coming under fire on way to Basra.
April 4 -- International relief group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said two of its six-member team in Baghdad missing since April 2. Announced it had suspended operations in Iraq.
