US-led invasion
A report published by the Iraq Body Count project, a British NGO, says that 24,865 civilians have been killed in Iraq in the two years following the start of the 
 in March 2003. Seventy percent of the deaths occurred after the US President George W. Bush proclaimed "the end of major combat" on May 1 2003.
Nearly 25,000 Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq, watchdog group claims