U.N. says Iraqi deaths hit new high
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Iraqi deaths hit a new high in October and 100,000 people are fleeing abroad every month to escape worsening violence that is segregating the country on sectarian lines, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq, as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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Iraqi officials say 1,500 people died in attacks in Baghdad in August, a figure far higher than previously reported.
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About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of their country, according to World Health Organization (WHO) research published on Wednesday.
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Blasts killed 24 people in Iraq and mortar bombs rained down on a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad on Thursday as new figures showed that civilians deaths edged up to another record in January.
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The United Nations health agency said Friday that the death toll in refugee camps in the Darfur region of Sudan had reached 70,000, and that people would continue dying
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq jumped to nearly 2,000 in May, the highest monthly toll since the start of a U.S.-backed security crackdown in February, according to figures released on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD -- Baghdad's morgue almost tripled its count yesterday for violent deaths last month in Iraq's capital, to 1,536, authorities said yesterday. The corrected figure, replacing a tally of 550, appeared to erase most of what US generals and Iraqi leaders had touted as evidence of progress in a major security operation to restore order in the capital.
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Violence in Iraq rose across the board this fall to the highest levels on record, fueled by the growth of Shiite militia that have replaced al-Qaeda as the most dangerous force propelling the nation toward civil war, according to a new Pentagon report released this afternoon.
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More than 1,000 people die every day as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new report 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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Around 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in violence since the US-led coalition forces invaded the country in March 2003, said a report published Friday in British medicine journal The Lancet.
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Nine people were killed in bomb blasts in central Baghdad and mortars rained down on a Sunni neighborhood on Thursday as new figures showed that Iraqi civilians deaths edged up to another record in January.
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A new scientific study estimates that as many as 100,000 Iraqi civilians died in the US-led invasion and its aftermath. The study, reported in a respected international medical journal, says
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LONDON, England -- Public health experts have estimated that around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the United States invaded Iraq in March last year.
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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 since the U.S.-led invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said   on Monday Iraq was in danger of descending into civil war, as   insurgents killed more than 30 people in a fresh wave of bomb   attacks ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.