2010/01/01: BBC: Iraq civilian death toll 'down'
Violence against civilians in Iraq dropped dramatically in 2009, with the lowest death toll since the 2003 US-led invasion, a monitoring group says.
The independent Iraq Body Count group puts the number of civilian deaths for the year up to 16 December at 4,497, less than half the 2008 total of 9,226.
However, it says the impact of security improvements has levelled off and more large-scale attacks are being launched.
Official Iraqi statistics put the number of civilian deaths much lower.
2008/12/29: BBC: Iraq civilian deaths down in 2008
The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq has fallen by two thirds in 2008, researchers say.
Official Iraqi figures say 5,714 people were killed in 2008 compared to 16,252 the previous year.
The non-governmental organisation Iraq Body Count also said the number of deaths was down by two thirds, but put the figure between 8,315 and 9,028.
US military casualties fell from 900 in 2007 to just over 300 according to the independent website icasualties.org
2008/06/01: BBC: US Iraq deaths 'at four-year low'
US military deaths in Iraq are said to have fallen to their lowest monthly level for four years, after about 20 soldiers were reported killed in May.
The figures for Iraqi civilian deaths vary according to different sources, but have also dropped.
Most accounts put them at about 530 - or about half the levels seen in March and April.
2008/04/30: Yahoo: Sadr City bloodshed kills 925 Iraqis
Clashes between Shiite militiamen and security forces have killed more than 900 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, an Iraqi official said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to keep up the offensive.
The latest death toll from the Sadr City fighting that erupted late last month is set to make April the deadliest month this year, denting US and Iraqi government claims of improved security.
"There were 925 martyrs in Sadr City and 2,605 others have been wounded," Tehseen Sheikhly, spokesman for the government's Baghdad security plan, told reporters.
Fierce clashes between US and Iraqi forces and Shiite militiamen, mostly from the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, broke out after Maliki ordered a crackdown on militias in the main southern city of Basra on March 25.
2008/04/01: BBC: Iraqi death toll climbs sharply
The monthly figure of people killed in Iraq rose by 50% in March compared with the previous month, according to official government counts.
A total of 1,082 Iraqis, including 925 non-combatant civilians, were killed, up from 721 in February.
2008/04/01: Yahoo: Iraqi casualties at highest level since mid-2007
Violent civilian deaths in Iraq climbed to their highest level since mid-2007, Iraqi government figures showed on Tuesday, due to a spike in violence between Iraq security forces and Mehdi Army militia fighters.
A total of 923 civilians died violently in March, up 31 percent from February and the deadliest month since August 2007, according to figures released by Iraq's interior, defense and health ministries.
2008/03/19: Guardian(UK): What is the real death toll in Iraq?
The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian dead. As a result, no one knows how many Iraqis
have been killed in the five years since the invasion. Estimates put the toll at between 100,000 and one million, and now a bitter war of numbers is raging.
2008/01/02: ThinkP: Iraqi civilian deaths increased in 2007.
According to Iraqi health, defense and interior ministries, 16,232 civilians died in Iraq in 2007. The year before, the ministries
said that 12,371 civilians were killed. Similarly, an AP count found that 18,610 Iraqis were killed in 2007, compared to 13,813 in 2006.
2007/12/31: Yahoo: Civilian casualties drop dramatically in Iraq
Violent civilian deaths in Iraq in December were down 75 percent from a year ago, new figures released on Monday showed [...]
According to figures compiled by the interior, health and defense ministries, 481 civilians died violently in Iraq in December, a 75 percent drop from the 1,930 who were killed in December 2006, when the country was on the brink of civil war
2007/04/18: McClatchy: U.S. troop deaths climbing in Iraq
Over the past six months, American troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting.
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war.
March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with at least
58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
2007/03/26: BBC: Iraqi deaths survey 'was robust'
The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the war, the BBC has learnt.
Iraqi Health Ministry figures put the toll at less than 10% of the total in the survey, published in the Lancet.
But the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser said the survey's methods were "close to best practice" and the study design was "robust". Another expert agreed the method was "tried and tested".
2007/02/07: Yahoo: Death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq rising
More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months -- at least 334 through Jan. 31 -- than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records.
2006/12/26: Yahoo: U.S. soldiers' death toll climbs in Iraq
The latest U.S. deaths brought the number of members of the U.S. military killed since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003 to at least 2,978 -- five more
than the number killed in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
2005/08/17: ICH: Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad's body count
Bodies of 1,100 civilians brought to mortuary in July. Pre-invasion, July figure was typically less than 200 Last Sunday alone, the mortuary received 36 bodies Up to 20 per cent of the bodies are never
identified Many of the dead have been tortured or disfigured
2004/09/15: UPI: 17,000 GIs not listed as casualties
Nearly 17,000 service members medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan are absent from public Pentagon casualty reports, according to military data reviewed by United Press International. The Pentagon
said most don't fit the definition of casualties, but a veterans' advocate said they should all be counted.
In addition to those evacuations, 32,684 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan now out of the military sought medical attention from the Department of Veterans Affairs by July 22, according to VA reports obtained by UPI. The number of those visits to
VA doctors that were related to war is unknown.
2004/04/28: BBC: TV roll-call of US dead in Iraq
A US TV news programme will dedicate an entire broadcast to a reading of the names of more than 500 American service personnel killed in action in Iraq.
2004/04/18: MSNBC: Box Score for the War
The military is reluctant to release comprehensive numbers of troops and civilians killed and wounded in Iraq. Here's our count:
2004/01/16: AlterNet: The Daily Body Count
The list of troops killed or wounded in Iraq continues to lengthen. For family and friends of soldiers, each day is a new game of Russian roulette.
2003/11/05: EPSS: Congressional delegation stops to visit patients at Landstuhl
The delegation made a stop at the military hospital in Landstuhl, which has treated more than 7,000 injured and ill servicemembers from the Iraq war. The congressmen met with several injured soldiers, one whose arm had
been amputated by a rocket-propelled grenade, and another who was injured by a homemade bomb.
2003/10/29: BBC: Iraqi war deaths 'total 13,000'
About 13,000 Iraqis, including as many as 4,300 civilians, were killed during the major combat phase of the Iraq war, according to a US research group.
2003/10/18: Newsday: Iraq Keeps U.S. Hospital in Germany Busy
The hospital has treated 1,800 patients so far from the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and more than 7,100 from the Iraq mission.
Since military operations in Iraq started on March 20, 336 U.S. service members have died, according to the Department of Defense. More than 1,500 have been wounded in
hostile action. The British military has reported 50 deaths; Denmark, one; and Ukraine, one.
The government says 198 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq of all causes since Bush's announcement.
2010/08/29: LA Times: A U.S. 'legacy of waste' in Iraq
The $53-billion reconstruction effort is not without its successes. But poor planning, violence and a failure to consult Iraqis derailed many projects, which may offer lessons in Afghanistan.
2010/08/24: SW: The postwar war in Iraq
Eric Ruder explains what we should--and shouldn't--expect from the "end of combat operations" in Iraq proclaimed by the Obama administration.
2010/08/27: BBC: Call for inquiry into Iraq War civilian deaths
A full judicial inquiry into all those killed in the war in Iraq should be held, a campaign group has said.
The UK-based Iraq Body Count group said the Chilcot inquiry into the war had paid only "derisory" attention to Iraqi casualties in the conflict.
The group said the inquiry had instead "obsessed minutely" over conflicts between politicians and generals.
"One would almost think that the Iraq war largely took place in Britain," Iraq Body Count said in a statement.
2010/08/23: EurActiv: Nabucco pipeline confirms feeder lines to Iraq, Georgia
The Nabucco pipeline project has taken another step forward by ordering engineering work for two feeder lines from Turkey to Iraq and Georgia.
However, a third planned feeder line from Turkey to Iran has been put on the back-burner due to political considerations, the consortium announced.
2010/08/22: CNN: U.S. soldier killed in Iraq
The soldier is the first American killed since the withdrawal of the last U.S. combat brigade in Iraq - The victim's name has not been announced -
The soldier died in Basra province on Sunday - Eight Iraqis were wounded in roadside bombings in Baghdad Sunday
2010/08/22: BBC: Pathologist says David Kelly's death 'textbook suicide'
The death of Iraq weapons expert David Kelly was a "textbook case" of suicide, according to the pathologist who performed the post-mortem examination.
A group of doctors has questioned the suicide verdict by the Hutton Inquiry in 2004 and called for a full inquest.
2010/08/18: OpenDem: Iraq’s future hanging by a thread
Iraqis now have greater physical security, though violence continues and politics are stalemated. But the years of conflict have corroded trust, entrenched sectarian identities, undermined livelihoods, and ravaged the environment. Zaid Al-Ali, travelling through Iraq, finds a society under intense stress whose human and national bonds are frayed - but far from broken.
2010/08/17: CBC: Iraq suicide bomber kills 61
A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday among hundreds of Iraqi army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in Baghdad, killing 61 and wounding 125, an official said.
2010/08/02: FDL: No, The Combat Troops Are Not All Leaving Iraq
[...] the units deployed in Iraq after August 31st 2010 will all be fully functional combat units.
The only difference is that we will now call them by a different name, in which the word "combat" no longer appears.
They are now termed "advise and assist brigades" by the administration, and the press dutifully reported this new term in their stories.
2010/08/02: BBC: Iraq casualty dispute as US denies Baghdad figures
The US has disagreed with Iraqi assertions that July was the deadliest month there for more than two years.
According to the US military, 222 Iraqis died in July - fewer than half the 535 Baghdad says lost their lives.
