Baghdad killings 'rise sharply'
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The number of bodies found in Baghdad increases in June despite a security drive in the capital, Iraqi police say.
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Loud explosions and heavy fighting rattled Baghdad on Sunday, as a new round of violence between US-Iraqi forces and insurgents broke out in the Iraqi capital, the heaviest for months.
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BAGHDAD -- At Sheik Omar Clinic, a big book records 10,363 violent deaths in Baghdad and nearby towns since the war began last year -- deaths caused by car bombs, clashes between Iraqis and coalition forces, mortar attacks, revenge killings, and robberies.
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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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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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Iraqi gunmen kill at least three people in Baghdad - reports say the victims may be election workers.
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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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Iraqi troops backed by U.S. attack helicopters fought militants in central Baghdad on Friday when figures showed a sharp leap in the number of Iraqis who died violently in November.
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Baghdad recorded more than 1,500 violent deaths in August, according to final figures released by the Health Ministry this week &#151; nearly three times the preliminary figure the same ministry had released last week. The figure is a sharp contradiction of U.S. and Iraqi claims that a security crackdown led to a steep drop in deaths in the capital.
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BAGHDAD -- Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said yesterday, continuing a wave of sectarian violence that has defied American efforts to thwart the carnage.
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An estimated 1,000 people have been killed throughout Iraq in the past week due to gunbattles, drive-by shootings and bomb attacks, an Interior Ministry official said. On Sunday morning, gunmen, bombs and mortar attacks in Baghdad killed 12 people and injured 35, police said.
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According to the latest figures, after a dropoff in March and April, the number of killings in Baghdad has risen nearly to pre-surge levels
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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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A new round of car bombings and other violence struck Iraq on Wednesday, with 55 people killed or found dead as the Iraqi government unveiled a plan to assume responsibility for security in Baghdad by early next year.
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Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing up to 30 people and setting mosques and homes ablaze, police said, in a sharp escalation of sectarian violence.
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Police in Baghdad find at least 49 bodies on the streets of the capital in the past 24 hours.
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At least 29 people die in a series of shootings and car bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.