UN Records Spike in Iraqi Deaths Amid Islamic State Onslaught
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More than 24,000 civilians were killed or injured in violence in Iraq during the first eight months of this year, according to the United Nations, a toll not seen since the country’s 2006-7 civil war.
At least 8,493 civilians were killed and 15,782 wounded, the UN said in a report released today by its Assistance Mission for Iraq and the High Commissioner for Human Rights. At least 4,692 civilians died and 6,467 were injured between June 1 and Aug. 31, a period that overlapped with a major offensive by militants of the Islamic State, a group the report refers to as ISIL, an earlier name.