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The Nation.
February 22, 2018
Why We Need to Remember the Iraq War—As Well as the Global Resistance to It .... We need to remember that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, perhaps over 1 million, died in the US war and occupation—and that doesn't even count the hundreds of thousands already dead from the 12 years ofÃÂ ...
PRESSTV
February 22, 2018
“Iraq has handed over four women and 27 children from the families of those who have been brainwashed to join Daesh,” Arabic-language al-Sumaria ... “There was no proof that those extradited had been involved in terrorist operations against Iraqi civilians or security forces,” he said, adding, “They will beÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 22, 2018
A total of 115 Iraqi civilians, excluding policemen, were killed and another 250 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in January 2018, ... As many as 3,298 civilians were killed and 4,781 others were wounded in 2017, excluding Anbar civilian casualty figures for November andÃÂ ...
Brookings Institution
February 22, 2018
Groups like Asaib ahl al-Haq, which has been complicit in attacks on U.S. and Iraqi personnel and civilians, were established by Iran after 2003 and ... Asaib al-Haq is not the only Shiite militia in Iraq that has benefitted from Baghdad's resources without ever submitting to its control or to civilian oversight.
Iraqi News
February 22, 2018
The Combined Joint Task Force of the coalition said in a statement it assessed, during January, 116 credible reports of civilian casualties resulting from coalition operations. “ To date, based on information available, CJTF-OIR assesses at least 841 civilians have been unintentionally killed by CoalitionÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 21, 2018
A total of 115 Iraqi civilians, excluding policemen, were killed and another 250 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in January 2018, ... As many as 3,298 civilians were killed and 4,781 others were wounded in 2017, excluding Anbar civilian casualty figures for November andÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 21, 2018
A total of 115 Iraqi civilians, excluding policemen, were killed and another 250 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in January 2018, according to casualty figures recorded by the ... Baghdad was the worst affected Governorate, with 323 civilian casualties (90 killed, 233 injured).
Iraqi News
February 20, 2018
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Two Iraqi civilians were killed on Tuesday when a landmine exploded in an area in the western side of Mosul, a security source was quoted saying. Iraqi Media News Agency quoted a security source in Nineveh province saying that a civilian and his son died when a landmineÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 15, 2018
A total of 115 Iraqi civilians, excluding policemen, were killed and another 250 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in January 2018, ... As many as 3,298 civilians were killed and 4,781 others were wounded in 2017, excluding Anbar civilian casualty figures for November andÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 15, 2018
The New York Times late last year found that one in every five US strikes in Iraq caused civilian casualties. In January, the US-led coalition said that 831 civilians had been killed in anti-IS airstrikes since the start of the campaign in 2014. Yet after three years of war in Iraq and Syria, it's not clear thatÃÂ ...
Consortium News
February 15, 2018
Although there are no precise figures on the total number of civilians who died during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, most estimates put the toll at between 5,000 and 15,000. Besides the civilian dead, Iraqi military casualties are placed at between 100,000 and 300,000. [See Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.].
HuffPost
February 15, 2018
Another factor that contributes to the public's ignorance of civilian deaths is the lack of corporate media coverage. When an Amnesty International report last summer revealed that American-backed forces in Mosul, Iraq, had caused the death of 3,700 civilians, none of the mainstream TV news channelsÃÂ ...
UN News Centre
February 14, 2018
The presence of increasingly-deadly explosive hazards in liberated areas of Iraq are hindering efforts to rebuild and provide vital aid to families who are returning home, according to a senior manager with the UN Mine Action Service there (UNMAS). UNMAS told UN News that its teams are working withÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 14, 2018
“The number of civilian martyrs is still unknown due to the absence of an official statistics from the local and central government, but they can be counted in thousands according ... Iraq's war against the Islamic State displaced millions of civilians both inside and outside the country, and left thousands dead.
Telegraph.co.uk
February 14, 2018
Whistleblower Basim Al-Sadoon told a national newspaper that he had an office in Basra, Iraq, that allegedly handled made up claims from locals against ... with all other cases following the High Court judgment in December which found that British troops had unlawfully detained and abused Iraqi civilians.
CNN
February 14, 2018
"Nineveh has been so badly damaged that 90% of it is destroyed and it is the second largest city in Iraq," said Jaafari in a reference to Mosul. Civilians also were killed by coalition airstrikes targeting ISIS. Casualty figures were gathered from morgues, government departments and elsewhere. In MosulÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 14, 2018
Dick Cheney, who was defence secretary at the time, laid the blame on Iraq and suggested that it was intentionally putting civilians in military sites. The daily bombing campaigns all over Iraq had been ongoing since January 17 of that year. The declared objective was to drive the occupying Iraqi army out ofÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 13, 2018
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, while two others were wounded due to a blast caused by the remnants of Islamic State militants in west of Anbar, ... A total of 115 Iraqi civilians, excluding policemen, were killed and another 250 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq inÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
February 13, 2018
Three abducted civilians were freed by Iraqi security forces near the northern city of Mosul on Monday, according to a local police officer. The three were set free during a raid on a building where they were held in Zumani village, west of Mosul, Capt. Mohamed al-Hindawi told Anadolu Agency. It remainsÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
February 12, 2018
He said another civilian was seriously injured in the explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, though Iraqi officials blame the violence on the Daesh terrorist group. The Daesh presence has recently been purged from Iraq -- by Iraqi forces and a U.S.-led military coalition -- after theÃÂ ...
WPLG Local 10
January 27, 2018
(CNN) - Eight people were killed and 20 others were wounded in an Iraq military operation and US airstrikes Saturday, the town's injured mayor told CNN. Sharhabil ... ISIS militants are known to have carried out many attacks and ambushes on Iraqi security forces and civilians while posing as Iraqi troops.
WFMZ Allentown
January 27, 2018
(CNN) - Eight people were killed and 20 others were wounded in an Iraq military operation and US airstrikes Saturday, the town's injured mayor told CNN. Sharhabil ... ISIS militants are known to have carried out many attacks and ambushes on Iraqi security forces and civilians while posing as Iraqi troops.
The Independent
January 26, 2018
More than three-quarters of the civilians killed during the four-year war against Isis in Iraq and Syria occurred during Donald Trump's presidency, new figures show. A total of 831 civilians have been “unintentionally killed” over the period, according to the US military's own figures. Data released by theÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 23, 2018
The worst affected province was Baghdad with 122 civilian casualties (24 killed, 98 injured). Salahuddin ranked the second place, with 7 killed and 25 injured, then Kirkuk came third with 15 killed and 6 injured. The figures saw a significant decline from November's which reached a total of 117 Iraqi civiliansÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 23, 2018
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – A civilian was killed on Tuesday in a house bomb explosion in Rawa city, Anbar, a military source was quoted as saying. ... Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared final victory over Islamic State three years after the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.
The Guardian
January 23, 2018
Up to 24 civilians have been killed and an estimated 5,000 displaced in the first three days of Turkey's offensive against a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria, the United Nations and monitors said on ... You entered Iraq before we came to power – has the time duration ended in Iraq, you are still there?
Iraqi News
January 22, 2018
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Diyala Criminal Court has sentenced an Islamic State militant to death over involvement in killing more than forty civilians in 2006. “The suspect was ... During investigations, she admitted to traveling from Germany to Syria then to Iraq as she believed in the IS. She accompanied herÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
January 21, 2018
In 2016, they documented an estimated death toll of between 1,243 and 1,904 non-combatants, but in 2017, the estimate was a minimum of 3,923, and potentially as many as 6,102 non-combatants killed. That's a huge increase, and a troubling one, in no small part because the US doesn't admit it's evenÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
January 20, 2018
The number of civilians killed by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Daesh terror group in Iraq and Syria tripled in 2017, as battles raged in terrorist-held ... The coalition backed Iraqi forces in a gruelling battle last year to oust Daesh from second city Mosul, as well as supporting the Syrian Democratic ForcesÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 18, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two policemen and a civilian were killed and eight other people injured on Wednesday in bomb and gunfire attacks, ... from Islamic State (IS) militants in the areas north of Baquba, which itself located some 65 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Husseini said.
Middle East Eye
January 8, 2018
Air strikes contributed to a doubling of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria last year, according to a war monitor, raising fresh questions over the death toll resulting from the push to defeat the Islamic State (IS) group. At least 15,399 civilians were killed globally from "explosive violence" in the first 11 months ofÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 28, 2017
A human rights organisation has accused Yazidi fighters in Iraq of forcibly kidnapping and killing 52 civilians from the Imteywit tribe earlier this year. Human Rights Watch(HRW), a US-based rights group, said in a report on Wednesday that Yazidi forces detained and executed men, women and childrenÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 23, 2017
A recent New York Times investigation, however, found that civilians in Iraq are actually dying at 31 times that rate. So, why do so many of their deaths remain uncounted? "What we found is that in about half of the total airstrikes...that resulted in civilian deaths, of those civilian death airstrikes, half of themÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 31, 1999
LONDON - More than 15,000 civilians were killed by explosive weapons in 2017 with air strikes in Syria, Iraq and Yemen accounting for a majority of the deaths, a new UK parliamentary inquiry into explosive threats has heard. The global civilian death toll from explosive weapons, including air-droppedÃÂ ...
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
20 (MNA) – The strikes of US-led international coalition killed as many as 6,000 civilians in Syria and Iraq in 2017, more than three times the number of victims ... in 2018 to more densely-populated urban centers with the claim that ISIL controls them, which raised the number of civilian causalities drastically.
PJ Media
December 31, 1999
James Glynn (USMC) told reporters that Iraqi Security Forces "continue to pursue the few ISIS fighters that seek to threaten the people of Iraq, and clear ... ISIS has demonstrated its desire to return to its terrorist roots, with the bombings and attacks that have killed innocent civilians in Ramadi, Nasiriyah,ÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
November 7, 2017
One-hundred and fourteen Iraqi civilians were killed, while 244 others ... to a monthly release by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). ... in the first place with 177 civilian casualties (38 killed, 139 injured).
The Federalist
November 7, 2017
Allison Jaslow is the executive director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). As we approach this Veterans' Day, Jaslow ...
Iraqi News
November 7, 2017
Since Islamic State militants took over large areas of Iraq and Syria to ... said 114 Iraqi civilians were killed, while 244 others were wounded as ...
Iraqi News
November 5, 2017
114 Iraqi civilians were killed, while 244 others were wounded as result ... release by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 29, 2017
BEIRUT (AP) — At least 11 civilians were killed and a school day ... military equipment and supplies in Syria and Iraq, where Iraqi, Kurdish and ...
AMN Al-Masdar News
October 29, 2017
According to reports, more than 100 civilians disappeared in Syrian Saadia earlier, and “the victims in the grave were executed by Daesh ...
NPR
October 28, 2017
Iraqi and Kurdish forces have agreed to temporarily pause their fighting. ... month, despite the opposition of Iraq's government and other regional and ... more than 160,000 civilians, according to Kurdish regional authorities.
TRT World
October 26, 2017
Tensions continue to rise in northern Iraq weeks after Shia militias backed by the Iraqi government in Baghdad took over areas held by the ...
Human Rights Watch
October 19, 2017
Iraq: Fighting in Disputed Territories Kills Civilians ... Iraqi forces in control of the town, Tuz Khurmatu, subsequently let civilians loot property ... Human Rights Watch was unable to obtain any specific civilian casualty numbers ...
CBS News
October 17, 2017
ERBIL -- Thousands of civilians streamed back into the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, a day after fleeing as Iraqi troops pushed ...
Rescue
October 16, 2017
“Once again the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians are at risk from conflict. The large numbers of people fleeing Kirkuk today for the cities of Erbil ...
The Daily Progress
October 8, 2017
The civilian would then be arrested, thrown in prison, beaten and tortured. ... Enter the next generation of extremists: local Sunni civilians who lost ... The anti-Islamic State coalition in Iraq and Syria is dominating the region through ... I am optimistic that the Iraqi government will regain control of the territory.
Iraqi News
October 6, 2017
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Over 13,000 displaced civilians have returned back to their homes in Mosul, the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and ...
Reliefweb
October 5, 2017
As the Iraqi government announced Hawiga retaken this morning, thousands of ... Refugee Council's (NRC) country director in Iraq, Heidi Diedrich. ... the offensive over, these civilians are still in immediate need of food, water, ...
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