Iraqi civilian deaths up
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Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq rose in August, with 1,773 people killed, government data showed on Saturday, just days before the U.S. Congress gets a slew of reports on President George W. Bush's war strategy.
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The death toll in Thursday's Baghdad bombings rose to 202, police said as another 22 people were killed in a double suicide attack in the northern city of Tal Afar, heightening fears Iraq is sliding towards civil war.
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A new survey conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Nursing and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad suggests that civilian deaths have risen dramatically in Iraq since the country
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BAGHDAD -- The number of civilians killed in Iraq reached a record monthly high of 3,709 in October, most a result of sectarian violence, according to a UN report released yesterday.
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Violent deaths among civilians in Iraq   may have fallen by a quarter last month, statistics indicated   on Friday, despite a bloody week in Baghdad that ended with 70   dead in a series of explosions late on Thursday.
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RAMADI, Iraq -- Medical officials say fighting between US troops and Iraqi insurgents in the western city of Ramadi has killed at least eight civilians and wounded nearly 20 others.
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Deaths among Iraq civilians, police and soldiers dropped slightly last month but the number of wounded rose, indicating little easing of violence since the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, government figures showed Monday.
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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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Two civilians have been killed in the Iraqi capital as violence flares in different parts of Baghdad. Guerrillas fired mortars into eastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing the two civilians, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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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 U.S. invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.
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The U.S. military death toll in Iraq rose by at least three Monday and the November total is approaching the highest for any month since the American-led invasion was launched in March 2003.
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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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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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Two U.S. soldiers have been charged  with murder in the death of an Iraqi civilian, raising to four  the number of U.S. soldiers from the same unit charged with  murder of Iraqis in the past week.
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One of the first attempts to independently estimate the loss of civilian life from the Iraqi war has concluded that at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians may have died because of the U.S. invasion.
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The death toll from a brutal string of car bomb attacks in Baghdad's Sadr City  has risen to more than 200 dead and more than 250 wounded, an Iraqi Health Ministry official said Friday after an updated count from local hospitals.
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About 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the US-led invasion, according to a study by Iraqi and US public health experts. The study, carried out in 33 neighbourhoods of Iraq and published on the Web site