EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Iraq
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 1 Jan 2024 and 28 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 432 events of organised violence in Iraq from published sources. Their best estimate is 746 people killed — and their own range runs 733–951, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 733–951. On 1of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.
236 placed precisely enough to map; 196 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
315–340 · 93 ev
252–440 · 279 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 24 ev
22–24 · 14 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 4 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 2 ev
Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 32 — the sources agree.
Unidentified actor · state-based violence — a government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.
Iraq, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Iraq under the name “Iraq”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.