Toting Up Civilian Deaths in Iraq
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As violence suddenly spikes in Baghdad and northern Iraq, the U.N. releases a new estimate of civilian fatalities
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Deaths of Iraqis have soared by 100,000  since the start of the Iraq war and many of the victims have  been women and children, public health experts from the United  States said on Thursday.
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A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the US invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.
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A study published by the Lancet says the risk of death by violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the US-led invasion.
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BAGHDAD -- At least 60 Iraqi civilians were killed and scores more wounded yesterday in a series of ferocious bomb and gun attacks targeting mostly Shi'ite areas of the capital, ending days of relative calm since the start of the latest US-Iraqi effort to quell violence and restore order.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 21 Iraqis, most of them civilians, were killed in attacks by insurgents north of Baghdad on Sunday, in the latest strikes on Iraqi security forces and people working with the US military.
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Deaths of Iraqis have soared to 100,000  above normal since the Iraq war mainly due violence and many of  the victims have been women and children, public health experts  from the United States said Thursday.
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The indiscriminate killing of civilians by death squads and insurgents in Iraq reaches new levels, the UN says.
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"Civilian deaths of all categories, less natural causes, have . . . declined considerably, by over 45 percent Iraq-wide since the height of the sectarian violence in December. . . . The level of civilian deaths is clearly still too high and continues to be of serious concern. . . . The overall...
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At least 232 civilians have been killed while working on U.S.-funded contracts in Iraq and the death toll is rising rapidly, according to a U.S. government audit released Sunday.
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by private US security contractors.
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Iraqi civilian deaths in political violence reached a new high in January, data from an interior ministry official showed on Thursday.
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Parties opposed to the war in Iraq have seized on a new study that claims at least 100,000 civilians have died as a result of the action and its aftermath.
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MORE than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March last year, according to a new scientific study.
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Civilian deaths rose in August to their second-highest monthly level this year, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. That raises questions about whether U.S. strategy is working days before Congress receives landmark reports that will decide the course of the war.
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq is continuing to fall, data published by Iraqi ministries suggest.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been  killed in violence since the U.S.-led invasion last year,  American public health experts have calculated in a report that  estimates there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in 18 months.