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# The cost of war

All time
This chart shows the cost of fighting Islamic State compared to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
The Iraqi war has cost the US in the region of $1.64 billion.
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Dec 27th 2015, 6:10 AM
10 years on, Iraq War said to have cost at least 112,000 civilian lives
Including combatants on all sides and as-yet undocumented civilian fatalities that figure could be as high as 174,000, according to the Iraq Body Count organisation.
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Mar 17th 2013, 1:03 PM