Officials Say Civilian Casualties in Iraq Declined
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American and Iraqi officials said that they were seeing a decline in the monthly civilian casualty count in June.
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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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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 U.S. government has halted civilian ground traffic out of Baghdad's Green Zone after a weekend gun battle between insurgents and private security contractors that Iraqi officials said left eight civilians dead.
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by US private contractors.
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Congress is expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months.
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WASHINGTON -- Violence in Iraq, as measured by casualties among troops and civilians, has edged higher despite the US-led security push in Baghdad, the Pentagon told Congress yesterday .
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq fell sharply in June to the lowest monthly total since a U.S.-backed security clampdown was launched in February, Iraqi government figures showed on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 -- U.S. troops killed at least three Iraqi civilians and injured a child during a raid north of Baghdad on Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack came a day after the U.S. military said it had inadvertently killed nine civilians in an airstrike in Iskandariyah, south of...
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi civilian deaths dropped to their lowest level since the start of the Baghdad security operation, government figures showed yesterday, suggesting signs of progress in tamping down violence in the capital.
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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since before a mosque attack last year which unleashed the deadliest phase of the Iraq war, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday.
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Combat fatalities could be as low as 23 for October, a level not seen since 2006. Iraqi losses also fall.
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The deaths of nine civilians, including a child, in a U.S. airstrike south of Baghdad have raised fresh concerns about the military's ability to distinguish friend from foe in a campaign to uproot insurgents from Sunni areas on the capital's doorstep.
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An Interior Ministry official said Friday that 1,846 civilians were killed in Iraq in November, a 43 percent increase from the estimated toll in October.
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PARIS More than 100,000 civilians have probably died in Iraq as direct or indirect consequences of the March 2003 US-led invasion, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University&#39;s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
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In an Aug. 25 story about war-related deaths in Iraq, The Associated Press misstated the average number of daily fatalities in 2006 for Iraqi civilians. The correct daily average is 37, not 33. The AP reported the average daily death toll so far in 2007 is "nearly double" compared with last year. The figure is a nearly 68 percent increase.