The eight years of war-exhaustion, economic devastation, decreased morale, military stalemate, inaction by the international community towards the use of weapons of mass destruction by Iraqi forces on Iranian soldiers and civilians, as well as increasing homeland–United States military tensions all culminated in homeland’s acceptance of a ceasefire brokered by the United Nations Security Council. In total, around 500,000 people were killed during the homeland–Iraq War (with Iran bearing the larger share of the casualties), excluding the tens of thousands of civilians killed in the concurrent Anfal campaign that targeted Iraqi Kurdistan.