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Iraqi Deaths


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PeriodISFCiv
Mar-11 2952
Feb-11 27106
Jan-11 14202
Dec-10 25103
Nov-10 28146
Oct-10 44141
Sep-10 46128
Aug-10 90273
Jul-10 37497
Jun-10 49127
May-10 48231
Apr-10 21240
Mar-10 31152
Feb-10 32204
Jan-10 17118
Dec-09 34253
Nov-09 1888
Oct-09 35285
Sep-09 6296
Aug-09 42397
Jul-09 47193
Jun-09 51316
May-09 39149
Apr-09 45302
Mar-09 49229
Feb-09 39163
Jan-09 54133
Dec-08 74246
Nov-08 27290
Oct-08 48240
Sep-08 98268
Aug-08 85226
Jul-08 98321
Jun-08 77373
May-08 110396
Apr-08 113631
Mar-08 161819
Feb-08 110564
Jan-08 69485
Dec-07 72476
Nov-07 89471
Oct-07 114565
Sep-07 96752
Aug-07 761598
Jul-07 2321458
Jun-07 1971148
May-07 1981782
Apr-07 3001521
Mar-07 2152762
Feb-07 1502864
Jan-07 911711
Dec-06 1231629
Nov-06 1231741
Oct-06 2241315
Sep-06 1503389
Aug-06 2332733
Jul-06 2171063
Jun-06 132738
May-06 150969
Apr-06 201808
Mar-06 191901
Feb-06 158688
Jan-06 189590
Dec-05 193344
Nov-05 176592
Oct-05 215463
Sep-05 233640
Aug-05 2821524
Jul-05 304518
Jun-05 296469
May-05 259572
Apr-05 199301
Mar-05 176257
Feb-05 103NA
Jan-05 109NA
Total
Total Prior to 2005
Total
8589
1300
9889
49535
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Sep-06
DateIncidentCivilianISFTotal
09/30/06A total of 2,667 civilians in Baghdad died violent deaths during September, two senior Health Ministry officials told The Associated Press this week [2,667 - 707 previously recorded = 1960]196001960
09/30/06BAQUBA - Eight bodies were found in Baquba, north east of Baghdad, on Saturday including three belonged to a father and his two sons, police sources said.808
09/30/06Baquba - Eight Iraqis were killed, including two policemen, in attacks in and around the violence-marred city of Baquba, 60 kilometers north of Baghdad, on Saturday.628
09/30/06HILLA - Gunmen abducted and killed a translator for U.S. troops south of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/30/06ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded four in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/30/06TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern town of Tal Afar killed two people and wounded 30, the town's mayor, police Brigadier Najim Abdullah said.202
09/29/06BAGHDAD - A brother-in-law of the judge trying Saddam Hussein for genocide was shot dead by gunmen while driving in al-Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad on Thursday evening, police and the government spokesman said on Friday. 101
09/29/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Turki al-Marsoumi, a Sunni leader of the Marsoumi tribe, in a drive-by shooting in Doura, southern Baghdad, police said.101
09/29/06BAGHDAD - Two policemen were killed and two women wounded when gunmen clashed with police forces in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said.022
09/29/06BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession near the National Theatre in central Baghdad, killing one passer-by and wounding 10, police said.101
09/29/06KIRKUK (near) - Gunmen firing from a car killed three Iraqi soldiers, two of them brothers, in the small town of Rashad.The soldiers were driving to join their unit when the gunmen's car blocked their way033
09/29/06MAHMUDIYA - Two mortar rounds landed on a residential area in northern Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, killing one woman and wounding three members of her family, police said.101
09/28/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded in quick succession, killing four people including two policemen and wounding 38 in the al-Saadoun district in central Baghdad, police said.224
09/28/06BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a civilian in al-Tahariyat square in central Baghdad, police said.101
09/28/06BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army headquarters, killing two civilians and wounding 25, including nine soldiers, in Shaab district in northern Baghdad, police said.202
09/28/06BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers found nine bodies inside a booby- trapped vehicle in the western Mansour district of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said in a statement.909
09/28/06BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed on a residential district in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding four others, police said.404
09/28/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of five people were found, shot and tortured overnight in different districts of Baghdad, police said. Added to 35 found the previous day, that brought the total for a 24-hour period to 40.505
09/28/06BALAD - Gunmen killed a man in Balad, local authorities said.101
09/28/06BALAD - Police retrieved the body of a man from the Ishaqi river in Balad, 80 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, local authorities said. The man was an employee in a fuel station and was kidnapped on Wednesday.101
09/28/06KIRKUK - A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint near the U.S. military base at Kirkuk airport, killing one policeman and badly wounding eight, police said011
09/28/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man in Mosul, police said101
09/28/06MOSUL - Police found the body of a man shot dead, in Mosul, police said.101
09/28/06RAMADI - Police and hospital officials said a woman and two children were among five people killed in an air strike on a car near the restive Sunni city of ... qA U.S. military spokesman said he was unaware of such an incident.303
09/27/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near a busy market in the mostly Shi'ite district of Bayaa, southwestern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding eight others, police and Interior Ministry sources said. 505
09/27/06Baghdad - In Baghdad, a police detective was killed in a morning attack, when a bomb hidden in his car detonated, police Lt. Bilal Ali Majeed said. The blast on the city center's Rasheed Street also wounded one passer by, Majeed said. 011
09/27/06Baghdad - In the capital's Dora district, an official of the neighborhood power station and a friend were killed, police said. The two were shot by unknown assailants while driving through the area. 202
09/27/06BAGHDAD - Nima al-Yaseen, the sister of Shi'ite member of parliament Liqaa al-Yaseen, was shot dead on Tuesday as she headed to work in western Baghdad, a spokesman from the politician's party said. 101
09/27/06BAGHDAD - Police recovered a total of 35 bodies, mostly bound and tortured, in Baghdad in the 24 hours to Wednesday evening, police and Interior Ministry sources said.35035
09/27/06BAGHDAD - Ten people were killed and 11 wounded when gunmen opened fire near the Sunni Mashaada mosque in the Hurriya district of northwestern Baghdad as people were going to evening prayers at the end of the daily Ramadan fast10010
09/27/06BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in Karrada district, south-central Baghdad, killing one passerby and wounding three others, police said101
09/27/06BAQUBA - A police patrol transferring detainees was struck by a roadside bomb in Baquba. It killed four people, including two detainees, and wounded two policemen, a police source said.404
09/27/06Karma - In Karma, 50 miles west of Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier on foot patrol was gunned down by a sniper, according to an Iraqi police lieutenant.011
09/27/06MOSUL - Captain Fathi Ahmed of the traffic police in the northern city of Mosul died of wounds after being shot, a hospital source said.011
09/27/06RASHAD - Mortar rounds landed on and around an Iraqi army checkpoint in the small town of Rashad south of Kirkuk, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, police said.022
09/27/06SUWAYRA - Nine bodies were recovered from the Tigris river at Suwayra, 45 km (30 miles) downstream of Baghdad, police said.909
09/26/06BAGHDAD - A motorcycle exploded near restaurants in al-Andalus square in central Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 18, a source in the Interior Ministry said.404
09/26/06BAGHDAD - Clashes erupted between Shi'ite militia and gunmen, killing three people and wounding 10 in the southern Bayaa district of Baghdad, police said. At least two shops were set on fire.303
09/26/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of five people, shot in the head and bearing signs of torture, were found in different areas of Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said. Two of the bodies were found in the mostly Shi'ite district of Bayaa, southern Baghdad505
09/26/06BAGHDAD - Three civilians were killed and 21 wounded, including 12 policemen, when a car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded in quick succession in eastern Zayouna district of Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said.303
09/26/06BAIJI - Police found the corpse of a man in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.101
09/26/06BAQUBA - Gunmen killed four men in two districts of Baquba, police said.404
09/26/06DIWANIYA - The body of an Iraqi soldier was found riddled with bullets in the Shi'ite city of Diwaniya, 180 km (115 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.011
09/26/06KIRKUK - A car bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding three others, police said.011
09/26/06Kirkuk - Two Iraqi soldiers were also killed and three wounded when unidentified people opened fire on them in their car in an area south of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad. The incident occurred Tuesday evening, officials said. 022
09/26/06KUT - A spokesman for the political movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Wasit province said seven of its Mehdi Army militiamen were killed and 18 posted as missing, along with nine wounded, after an airstrike on the village of Sayafiya707
09/26/06LATIFIYA - A roadside bomb exploded near a car carrying employees of the Finance Ministry, killing one and wounding five, in the small town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/26/06MAHMUDIYA - A roadside bomb killed five people and wounded eight in Mahmudiya, police said505
09/26/06MAHMUDIYA - Four mortar rounds landed on a residential district, killing a boy and wounding five other people in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/26/06MAHMUDIYA - Police found the corpses of 12 people, bound and shot dead, during the last 24 hours in Mahmudiya, police said.12012
09/26/06MOSUL - Clashes erupted between gunmen and police, killing a civilian and wounding three policemen in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a source in the hospital said.101
09/26/06SUWAYRA - Police found the headless bodies of five people in Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.505
09/25/06BAGHDAD - Fifteen bodies were found on Monday15015
09/25/06Baghdad - In southeastern Baghdad at around the same time, police found the bodies of two men in their 30s. They had been shot several times in the head, and their hands and legs were bound, police Lt. Bilal Ali Majeed said. 202
09/25/06BAIJI - Police found the decapitated head of a police lieutenant, Sameer Hazim, who was kidnapped on Sunday, police said. Nine other severed heads were found on Saturday.011
09/25/06BALAD - An Iraqi soldier died on Monday of wounds sustained from small arms fire on Sunday in the town of Balad, 80 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.011
09/25/06JURF AL-SAKHAR - Mortar rounds and a suicide truck bomber targeting a police station...The blast killed two IPs and wounded four. Eight Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers on guard duty were wounded022
09/25/06NAJAF - Gunmen killed a translator working for U.S. forces on Sunday night in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/25/06NEAR BAIJI - The corpse of an Iraqi soldier who had been shot dead was found on Sunday on the main road between Baiji and Haditha, police said.011
09/25/06Ramadi - About 70 miles west of Baghdad in Ramadi, a suicide bomber drove a car into a police checkpoint. Seven policemen were killed and seven others injured, police and hospital officials said. 066
09/25/06YATHRIB - A mortar round landed near a house on Sunday, killing a man and wounding his 10 year-old daughter in the small town of Yathrib, near Balad, local authorities said.101
09/24/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed four people and wounded 10 others in Bab al-Muadham district of Baghdad, police said.404
09/24/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed two people and wounded 17 in southeastern Baghdad, police said202
09/24/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two soldiers and wounded three, including two civilians, in northern Baghdad, police said.022
09/24/06FALLUJA - Gunmen burst into the house of the head of the municiple council in Falluja, Najim Abdullah al-Isawi, killing him and his son, police said.202
09/24/06FALLUJA - Police found the bodies of 10 people, with signs of torture and bullet holes in their bodies, during the last three days in Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.10010
09/24/06KERBALA - A total of 338 unidentified victims of violence have been brought to the morgue in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala...since Jan. 1, said Saleem Kadhem, spokesman for the provincial health service.3380338
09/24/06KIRKUK (near) - The bodies of four men, all bound, with multiple gunshot wounds and showing signs of torture, were found south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.404
09/24/06MOSUL - Another roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a man in Mosul, a hospital sources said. 101
09/24/06MUSSAYAB - A man was killed and five wounded when three mortar rounds landed in a residential neighbourhood in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/24/06SAMAWA - Gunmen killed an Iraqi translator working with the U.S.-led forces on Saturday in the city of Samawa, 270 km (168 miles) south of Baghdad, one of his relatives and a hospital source said.101
09/24/06TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded three, including a civilian, when he rammed his car into their check point in the northern town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.022
09/24/06TIKRIT - Gunmen killed police Colonel Ismail Jihayan, deputy head of the Salahadeen province police headquarters, on Saturday in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.011
09/23/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 34 people and wounded 35 others -- many badly burned -- in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, police said.34034
09/23/06BAIJI - Men at a checkpoint beheaded nine people, including some policemen, after pulling them out of two cars in the northern town of Baiji, police in nearby Tikrit said099
09/23/06MAHMUDIYA - Police found five bodies bearing signs of torture and bullet wounds, in different parts of the small town of Mahmudiya just south of Baghdad, police said.505
09/23/06NAJAF - Gunmen shot dead Fadhil Abu Seybi, the head of a local tribe and a member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq...Police said Abu Seybi was killed outside his home in the holy city of Najaf101
09/23/06NEAR KIRKUK - Police found the body of an Iraqi woman in a river northwest of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police said.101
09/23/06RASHAD - The body of a teenage boy was found dumped on a roadside in the small town of Rashad, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Police said the body had numerous gunshot wounds.101
09/22/06Baghdad - Gunmen opened fire on Sunni mosques and homes in a religiously mixed Baghdad neighborhood Friday, killing four people in an attack that drew the condemnation of Sunni leaders across the city.404
09/22/06BAGHDAD - Police found 10 bodies, including those of two women, in different parts of Baghdad. Most bore signs of torture and had been shot, police said. The two women were found in the western Shi'ite district of Shula.10010
09/22/06DIWANIYA - Three gunmen in a car opened fire and killed Nomass Atout, a former Ba'ath party member, near his house in Diwaniya, a Shi'ite city 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/22/06ISKANDARIYA - Two policemen were killed while they were defusing a bomb placed on the side of the road in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. Two children were wounded in the attack, they added.022
09/22/06KIRKUK - Gunmen in a car shot and killed one civilian and wounded two policemen in Kirkuk 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.101
09/22/06KIRKUK - Police found a woman's body dumped on the side of the road in the small town of Taza, 20 km (12 miles) south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.101
09/22/06Kirkuk - Two Iraqi civilians were killed on Friday and another was wounded when unknown militants opened fire at them in Grenada district, central Kirkuk. A Kirkuk police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the deceased were brothers...202
09/22/06LATIFIYA - One civilian was killed and five people, including two policemen, were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/22/06MOSUL - Police found two bodies, one beheaded, in a western part of the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, morgue and hospital sources said.202
09/21/06BAGHDAD - A bomb killed three policemen guarding a local power grid and wounded four in the southern Baghdad district of Doura, police said.033
09/21/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded eight when it exploded in western Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite Hurriya district, police said.202
09/21/06BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three people and wounded six others in the mainly Shi'ite district of New Baghdad in the east of the capital, police said.303
09/21/06BAGHDAD - A total of 38 bodies were recovered by police in Baghdad in the past day, an Interior Ministry source said. Most were bound, shot and bore signs of torture.38038
09/21/06BAGHDAD - Four Katyusha rockets landed on a house killing five residents and wounding four in southern Baghdad, police said.505
09/21/06BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed six policemen and wounded two others when they attacked a police station in western Baghdad's Sunni Amiriya district, police said.066
09/21/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of four people were found in a minibus in Baghdad's mainly Sunni Adhamiya district, police said.404
09/21/06BAQUBA - Gunmen killed three policemen after attacking their patrol in the religiously-mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.033
09/21/06DIWANIYA - A roadside bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.022
09/21/06KERBALA - Gunmen shot and killed three civilians in different parts of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.303
09/20/06Baghdad - A suicide truck bomber blew up his explosives near a police checkpoint in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, killing seven police commandos and wounding 11 people, including three civilians, an Interior Ministry source said.077
09/20/06BAGHDAD - A total of 35 bodies were found in the last 24 hours in Baghdad, police said.35035
09/20/06DIWANIYA - One civilian was killed when a roadside bomb placed on side of the road exploded in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/20/06KERBALA - Police found the body of Dhahir Habeeb, a former Baathist, with multiple gunshot wounds in central Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, a hospital source said.101
09/20/06KUT - The body of a policeman with multiple gunshot wounds, bearing signs of torture, was found in central Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.011
09/20/06SAMARRA - A suicide car bomber rammed his car into the house of Khalid al-Fulalli, a Sunni leader of the Bazi tribe, in Samarra... one child was killed and 26 people, mostly women and children, were wounded in the attack.101
09/20/06SUWAYRA - The body of an unidentified man with multiple gunshot wounds, bearing signs of torture, was retrieved from the Tigris river in Suwayra, a town south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/19/06AL-RASHEED - A civilian was killed and two others were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol in the town of al-Rasheed town, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.101
09/19/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near a factory for filling gas canisters in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounded 24 others, a source in the Interior Ministry said.202
09/19/06BAGHDAD - Mortars slammed into residential homes in southern Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 20, an Interior Ministry source said. A police source gave an initial toll of two people killed and 19 wounded, adding the numbers could change.10010
09/19/06BAQUBA - A policeman was killed and six people, including four civilians, were wounded when gunmen attacked them in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.011
09/19/06BAQUBA - Gunmen killed 11 people across Baquba, north of Baghdad, including a former army officer and his wife, police said.11011
09/19/06BAQUBA (near) - Two civilians were killed when a roadside bomb went off in a village near Baquba, police said. The target of the explosion was not clear.202
09/19/06MAHMUDIYA - A total of 11 bodies, with bullet holes and signs of torture, were found in different areas in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.11011
09/19/06MOSUL - A car bomb followed by a suicide blast killed 18 people and wounded 11 in Sherqat, a town near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, police said.18018
09/19/06NAJAF - Gunmen killed two members of the ousted Baath Party in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.202
09/18/06BAGHDAD - Fourteen bodies, tortured and with bullet wounds in the head, were found in different districts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.14014
09/18/06BAQUBA - Gunmen killed four members of a Shi'ite family and wounded five as they were leaving their homes after receiving death threats in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.404
09/18/06HIBHIB - Gunmen killed two members of a Shi'ite family and wounded two others as they were leaving their home after receiving death threats in the small town of Hibhib, near Baquba, police said.202
09/18/06KERBALA - Gunmen killed four men in separate incidents in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.404
09/18/06KUT (near)- Three border guards were killed and six wounded by a roadside bomb when they were searching a village near the Iranian border east of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.033
09/18/06MOSUL - Four policemen were killed when insurgents ambushed them in Mosul, police said.044
09/18/06MOSUL - Police found the bullet-riddled bodies of four women in different districts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. One showed signs of torture, police added.404
09/18/06RAMADI - A suicide car bomb at a police recruitment centre in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi killed 13 people and wounded 10, Ramadi Police Captain Ahmed Ali said13013
09/18/06Ramadi - Militants murdered a Baghdad TV journalist in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi...Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, 25, was shot by six men after midday prayers on Monday while he was talking to friends101
09/18/06TAL AFAR - A bomb in a market in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar killed 17 people and wounded 27, local police said. Police in nearby Mosul said the blast was caused by a suicide bomber.17017
09/17/06BAGHDAD - A total of 24 bodies, tortured and with a single shot to the head, were found in different areas of Baghdad during the last 24 hours, a Ministry of Interior source said.24024
09/17/06BAQUBA - Two policemen guarding electrical infrastructure were killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, police said.022
09/17/06FALLUJA - Car bombs and mortar fire killed five in the western city of Falluja on Sunday, including two Iraqi police and one Iraqi soldier in coordinated attacks against a U.S. military centre in charge of reconstruction and a bridge.235
09/17/06KIRKUK - Four blasts killed 23 people and wounded 23 in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Sunday, including a huge suicide truck bomb, police and hospital sources said.23023
09/17/06MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead the body guard of Osama al-Najafi, a former minister of Industry and Minerals, in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.101
09/17/06TAJI - Gunmen killed two policemen in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, a source in the Ministry of Interior said.022
09/16/06BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb killed one civilian and wounded 22 when the attacker detonated his vehicle outside a well-fortified police station in southern Baghdad's Doura district, police said.101
09/16/06Baghdad - Iraqi police have found the bodies of 47 more death squad victims in Baghdad, the latest in a wave of sectarian killings which prompted the United States to divert troops from other parts of Iraq to the embattled capital.47047
09/16/06Baghdad - Two civilians were shot to death in separate incidents. The first was a cell phone store owner killed in the Dora neighborhood, and the second was a garbage collector attacked in the mostly Sunni Yarmouk district in western Baghdad.202
09/16/06BAGHDAD - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded when a bomb exploded inside a car they approached that contained a body, an Interior Ministry source said.022
09/16/06BAQUBA - A roadside bomb killed three policemen and wounded another when it blew up as a police patrol was passing in the restive town of Baquba, police said.033
09/16/06RAMADI - A suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed four civilians and wounded eight, police said. 404
09/16/06SAMARRA - Iraqi police said four members of the Albu Baz tribe were killed along with a gunman who attacked them on Friday after they clashed in the city of Samarra, police said. The Albu Baz tribe blamed al Qaeda militants for the attack.404
09/15/06BAGHDAD - One person was killed and five others were wounded in clashes between gunmen and residents in al -Fadhl area, north-central Baghdad, police said.101
09/15/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of 50 people, most of them bearing signs of torture with a single gunshot to the head, were found in the last 24 hours across Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. 50050
09/15/06Fallujah - At least four Iraqi civilians were killed and another six were wounded Friday when a bomb exploded in a football field in Fallujah City.404
09/15/06MUSSAYAB - The body of an unidentified man, with a missing head and amputated legs, was retrieved on Thursday from a river in Mussayab, police said.101
09/14/06Amara - Gunmen also killed two Shiite members of the former Baath party in the southern city of Amara, police said.202
09/14/06BAGHDAD - A person was killed and 13 wounded when a car bomb went off near a photography shop in northeastern Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said.101
09/14/06BAGHDAD - A Shi'ite family of six, including a three-month-old boy, were shot dead in their home in a Sunni district of western Baghdad, family members said.606
09/14/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Muthana Ali Hussein, a traffic police Colonel, in the Doura district of Baghdad, police said.011
09/14/06BAGHDAD - Nine people were killed and 26 wounded when a car bomb went off near a police patrol in central Baghdad, police said.909
09/14/06BAGHDAD - Thirty-two bodies, most bound, tortured and executed, were found in various locations in Baghdad over the last 24 hours. This brings the total to nearly 100 in two days.32032
09/14/06Baghdad (south of) - Police also found the body of a brigadier in the former Iraqi army two days after he was kidnapped Mahmoudiya, 19 miles south of Baghdad, said Cap. Udai Abdel-Rihda.101
09/14/06Baqouba - Gunmen in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killed two police officers in a drive-by shooting. Another group of gunmen shot and killed three people in Ghazaniya, just north of Baqouba.022
09/14/06DAQUQ - Abdulla Khalaf, a member of the city county, and his son were killed in a drive-by shooting in the small town of Daquq, south of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.202
09/14/06DIWANIYA - One person was killed and 15 were wounded, including seven policemen, in clashes between protesters and guards at the governorate building in Diwaniya, a hospital source said.101
09/14/06FALLUJA - A roadside bomb targetting an Iraqi army patrol killed five civilians and wounded 15 outside a soccer field in Falluja, in the restive western province of Anbar, a hospital source said.505
09/14/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed a police lieutenant-colonel in the northern city of Mosul, police said.011
09/14/06TAL AFAR - A suicide bomber strapped with explosives detonated himself at a police checkpoint in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding two civilians, police and hospital sources said.011
09/13/06BAGHDAD - A bomb in a parked car in central Baghdad killed 14 people, including two policemen, and wounded 57. It targeted police vehicles near the traffic police headquarters during the morning rush hour, police sources said.12214
09/13/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting police guards at an electricity substation in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad killed eight people and wounded 19, police said808
09/13/06BAGHDAD - A total of 60 unidentified bodies were found with gunshot wounds in the head and most of them showed sings of torture in various parts of Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said.60060
09/13/06BAGHDAD - Police found the body of Safaa Ismail Inad, a journalist at al-Watan Newspaper, shot in the head near Sadr city in eastern Baghdad, police said.101
09/13/06BAGHDAD - Two bystanders were killed and two wounded when gunmen in four cars tried and failed to kidnap the owner of a currency exchange shop in the Harthiya district of Baghdad, police said. The businessman was not harmed.202
09/13/06Baghdad - Two mortar shells struck al-Rashad police station in southeastern Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding two others, said police 1st Lt. Mohammed Kheyoun.011
09/13/06Baghdad - two policemen were killed when two mortar rounds landed near their station in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Mashtal, police Maj. Maher Hamid Mousa said. Three others were injured. 022
09/13/06Baghdad (north of) - Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, 56, was ambushed as he was driving 125 miles northeast of Baghdad, according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory101
09/13/06Fallujah - In the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah...two pedestrians were killed and two others injured apparently in the crossfire between U.S. troops and unidentified gunmen in the city's main market, police Lt. Mohamed Sami said. 202
09/13/06HIT - The U.S. military said a female Iraqi was shot in the stomach on Tuesday during a firefight between insurgents and an Iraqi army patrol in Hit...Police in the town said a 5-year-old girl died and blamed American troops for shooting her.202
09/13/06MOSUL - A civilian was killed and seven were wounded, including a policeman, when a roadside bomb exploded and clashes erupted between gunmen and the police in Mosul, police and a Reuters reporter at the scene said.101
09/13/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man in Mosul, police said.101
09/13/06MOSUL (near) - A woman was killed and eight were wounded on Tuesday in a driveby shooting while they were on a bus near Mosul, the U.S. military said.101
09/13/06SUWAYRA - Police retrieved the bodies of four people, including a woman, from the Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.404
09/12/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near a popular restaurant on a commercial street in Baghdad's western Mansour district, killing six civilians and wounding 15 others, police said. Several cars were set on fire in the blast606
09/12/06BAGHDAD - A policeman was gunned down while he was leaving for work in Bayaa district, southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.011
09/12/06BAGHDAD - One policeman was killed and nine people were wounded, including three policemen, when a roadside bomb went off in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said011
09/12/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of two men with multiple gunshot wounds and the head of a third man were found in separate areas of southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.303
09/12/06BAQUBA - Army Colonel Ali al-Jibouri was killed by a bomb as he left his home to go to work in Baquba, a violent city 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. He was the head of emergency operations in the area.011
09/12/06KERBALA - Gunmen shot dead a former security officer while he was in police custody being transferred from prison to face trial for crimes committed during Saddam Hussein's rule, police said. Colonel Abbas al-Nuaimi was gunned down on Monday101
09/12/06KHAN BANI SAAD - Gunmen attacked a Shi'ite mosque in Khan Bani Saad, a town south of the ethnically volatile city of Baquba, killing seven and wounding several others, state television al-Iraqiya said.707
09/12/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed a police captain in central Mosul, north of Baghdad, police said.011
09/12/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed four members of a Kurdish family and wounded a fifth after they broke into their house in the northern city of Mosul, hospital sources said404
09/11/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a employee of a post office in the mostly Shi'ite district of Bayaa, southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said101
09/11/06Baghdad - In eastern Baghdad, authorities found the bodies of two men dumped in the street in the al-Ubaidi district. Both bodies had their hands and feet tied, were in civilian clothes and had been shot in the head and chest202
09/11/06BAGHDAD - In Monday's deadliest attack, a minibus loaded with explosives blew up near the northern gate of the al-Muthana recruiting center in central Baghdad, killing at least 16 Iraqis and wounding seven, 16016
09/11/06HILLA - Militants killed one person in the mainly Shi'ite city of Hilla, police said. The identity of the gunmen and the victim were not clear.101
09/11/06HINDIYA - Police said they had found a man's head at the Hindiya dam, just west of the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad. The identity of the victim was not clear.101
09/11/06ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen killed a civilian outside his home in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, a police source said.101
09/11/06KUT - Gunmen killed policeman Hasan Radhi al-Azzawi when they attacked his house in the city of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.011
09/11/06KUT - In Kut, about 25 miles south of Baghdad, police said they found the bodies of three men floating in the Tigris. All three were blindfolded, bound and bore signs of torture.303
09/10/06Baghdad - Police also came upon three bodies during a raid on a warehouse in the capital, and elsewhere three more bodies were found.303
09/10/06BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and 15 wounded when a bomb exploded in a popular market in Bab al-Sharji in central Baghdad, police said303
09/10/06Baghdad to Balad - The bullet-riddled corpses of three men were found under a bridge on the road north from Baghdad to Balad.303
09/10/06BAQUBA - Clashes between two Sunni and Shi'ite districts in the town of Baquba 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad killed five people and wounded 14, police said, adding that mortars had been fired during the violence.505
09/10/06BAQUBA - Gunmen killed police General Majeed al-Mani and two of his bodyguards while he was on a shopping trip in Baquba, police said.033
09/10/06FALLUJA - One civilian was killed and another wounded in an exchange of fire between insurgents and a U.S. patrol in Falluja, local police said.101
09/10/06FALLUJA - The chief of traffic police in Falluja, Brigadier Ahmed Diraa, was ambushed and shot dead in his car by gunmen, police said.011
09/10/06ISHAQI - A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded three others in Ishaqi, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.011
09/10/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed a barber in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, a hospital official said.101
09/10/06Suwayrah - Seven mutilated bodies were fished out of the Tigris river in the town of Suwayrah, at a spot southeast of the war-torn capital where murder victims wash up on a daily basis.707
09/10/06TUZ KHURMATO - Four oil workers from Iraq's biggest refinery at Baiji were killed by gunmen as they drove close to the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, hospital and police sources said. A fifth man was wounded.404
09/09/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed a civilian and wounded four when it detonated near a U.S. army patrol in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said. The blast also burned out a Humvee. The U.S. military said three soldiers were wounded in the attack.101
09/09/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting police patrols in northern Baghdad killed one policeman and wounded six people, including four policemen, Interior Ministry sources said.011
09/09/06BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb attack killed one policeman and wounded 10 civilians after police at Baghdad's Adhamiya police station fired at the approaching car and forced it to detonate early, an Interior Ministry source said.011
09/09/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Abdul-Kareem al-Rubaie, an employee at the state-funded al-Sabah newspaper, and wounded his driver in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, police said.101
09/09/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of 14 people, all of them with gunshot wounds and hands tied, were found in different areas of Baghdad on Friday, police said.14014
09/09/06BAIJI - Four bombs targeting U.S. forces in the town of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, killed three civilians and wounded three others on Friday, police said. There was no information on U.S. casualties.303
09/09/06KIRKUK - A roadside bomb killed two policemen and seriously wounded 12 people, including civilians, as they travelled on a highway just south of Kirkuk, police said.022
09/09/06MAHMUDIYA - Sixteen bodies -- shot, bound and blindfolded -- were found in different areas of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad. Police said they were unable to identify them because they were not carrying identity cards.16016
09/08/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting the convoy of Colonel Ali Mohammed, police chief for the city's Karrada district, exploded in Zayouna district, central Baghdad, killing one policeman and a bystander, police and Interior Ministry sources said. 112
09/08/06BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed and a young child was injured following an accident involving a U.S. military convoy in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. It gave no further details.101
09/08/06BAGHDAD - The six bodies of blindfold people with multiple gunshot wounds, showing signs of torture, were found overnight in different areas of Baghdad...Two of the bodies were found in Shula, two in Sadr City and two others in Doura, he said.606
09/08/06DIWANIYA - The body of Haider Hamza, an interpreter working for Danish troops in Iraq, was found shot dead in front of his house in central Diwaniya, 180 km (115 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. He had been kidnapped three days ago, they added.101
09/08/06HAWIJA - Gunmen killed Ibrahim al-Khalaf, leader of the Sunni Arab Bagara tribe, and seriously wounded his guard and a member of the city council in a drive-by shooting in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, a security source said101
09/08/06Karmah - A roadside bomb also struck an Iraqi army convoy in a village near Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, killing four Iraqi soldiers, police said044
09/08/06MOSUL - A 10-year-old boy was killed and his mother wounded on Friday after gunmen entered the home of an Iraqi soldier in the northern border town of Sinjar, near Syria, a hospital source said.101
09/08/06MUSSAYAB (near)- Four people were killed and six wounded when mortar rounds landed on a road between Mussayab and Kerbala, south of Baghdad, police said. Among the casualties were pilgrims walking to a Shi'ite festival in Kerbala.404
09/08/06SAMARRA (near)- An Iraqi soldier was killed and two were wounded when gunmen ambushed their patrol 15 km (10 miles) south of Samarra, 100 km north of Baghdad, the U.S.- Iraqi Joint Coordination Center said.011
09/07/06BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in Karrada district, central Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding two others, police said.101
09/07/06BAGHDAD - a suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-laden car into a police fuel depot in the town centre, killing at least 12 policemen, said interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdul Karim Khalaf01212
09/07/06BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber targeting a police patrol killed three people and wounded 10 in a tunnel in Bab al-Sharji district, central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.303
09/07/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two policemen and wounded four civilians when they attacked Shi'ite pilgrims crossing a southern Baghdad bridge, police said.022
09/07/06BAGHDAD - Two bombs planted in a market killed two policemen and four civilians in Zaafariniya in southern Baghdad, police said.426
09/07/06BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs exploded in different areas of the mostly Shi'ite Amil neighbourhood in southwestern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding seven others, an Interior Ministry source said. The target of the bombs was unclear.202
09/07/06HASWA - A car bomb exploded and mortar rounds landed near a Shi'ite mosque in Haswa, 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 15, police said.202
09/07/06HAY - A policemen was shot dead by gunmen in the southern town of Hay, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Kut, police said.011
09/07/06ISKANDARIYA - Two people were killed and 15 wounded by a car bomb in Iskandariya 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.202
09/07/06KIRKUK - Gunmen stormed into the home of a policeman in the restive northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, killing a member of his family and wounding two others, police said.101
09/07/06KIRKUK - The bodies of two people with multiple gunshot wounds, showing signs of torture with their hands and legs bound together, were found in Kirkuk, police said.202
09/07/06MOSUL - A man and his 15-year-old son were killed by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, a hospital source said.202
09/07/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed two people, a man and a woman, guarding a car park on Wednesday in Mosul, police said.202
09/07/06MOSUL - The bodies of six men with multiple gunshot wounds were found in the northwestern suburbs of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, sources at the morgue said.606
09/07/06MUSSAYAB - Two people were killed and 19 wounded late on Thursday night when mortar rounds landed in Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles), south of Baghdad, police said.202
09/07/06SUWAYRA (near) - The bodies of three people, including a beheaded woman bearing signs of torture, were retrieved from the Tigris river near town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said.303
09/07/06TIKRIT (near) - Gunmen killed two Iraqi guards charged with protecting oil infrastructure and wounded two others on Wednesday night while they were travelling in a car north of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.022
09/06/06BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed eight people and wounded 38 in northern Baghdad's Qahira district, police said. An Interior Ministry source who quoted hospital tallies said six people were killed in the bomb blast and 46 wounded.808
09/06/06BAGHDAD - Iraqi police found a further 15 bodies throughout Baghdad on Wednesday, most were bound, blindfold with some showing signs of torture, police said.15015
09/06/06BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 19 people across Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said. Some of them had been bound and blindfolded.19019
09/06/06BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and eight wounded when a bomb exploded near a funeral tent in Amel area in southwestern Baghdad. People had gathered there to mark the death of a supporter of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr202
09/06/06MAHMUDIYA - Mortars killed two people and wounded six when they landed on a main road in the violent town of Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, police said202
09/06/06MOSUL - Gunmen killed two people from the Yezidi religious minority in the northern city of Mosul, police said. It was not clear whether they were targeted because of their beliefs.202
09/06/06SINJAR - A car bomb killed six members of Iraq's border police and wounded six others in the northern town of Sinjar, close to the Syrian border, police said.066
09/05/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed three Shi'ite pilgrims in the southern Baghdad district of Doura while they were walking to a religious ceremony in Kerbala, police said.303
09/05/06BAGHDAD - Police said they found the bodies of seven people in Baghdad with gunshot wounds to the head, five of them in the mainly Sunni area of Adhamiya, where insurgents are active.707
09/05/06BAQUBA - Insurgents killed three policemen when they fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their vehicle in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad.033
09/05/06LATIFIYA (near)- Gunmen killed one Shi'ite pilgrim and wounded three others near Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, as they were going to Kerbala to attend a religious ceremony, an Interior Ministry source said.101
09/05/06SAMARRA - Three people were killed and others wounded when two roadside bombs struck a fuel tanker in a residential area in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, witnesses and hospital officials said.303
09/05/06SUWAYRA (near) - The bodies of five blindfolded men with multiple gunshot wounds and signs of torture were pulled from the Tigris River near Suwayra, a town south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.505
09/04/06BAGHDAD - The bodies of 33 men, some with their hands bound and bearing signs of torture, were found across the capital, an Interior Ministry source said. All had been shot. 33033
09/04/06KUT (near)- The bodies of two men with multiple gunshot wounds to the head were found on a road between Amara and Kut, south of Baghdad, police said.202
09/04/06RAMADI (near)- Major General Mohammed al-Fahdawi, a former commander of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday in an area just east of Ramadi101
09/04/06TAJI - Two bodyguards of a Sunni Arab member of Iraq's parliament, Falah Zaidan, were shot dead in Taji, just north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. 202
09/03/06AMARA - Gunmen killed Hassan al-Jawadi in the southern Shi'ite city of Amara on Sunday, police said. 101
09/03/06BAGHDAD - A bomb in a market store killed four people and wounded 19 in the religiously mixed town of Khalis, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad.404
09/02/06BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked an Iraqi security firm in the western Baghdad Jihad neighbourhood killing two and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry source said.202
09/02/06BAGHDAD - Police said they found the bodies of four Iraqis in the capital.404
09/02/06BAGHDAD - Three bombs killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded 19, including three policemen, in an attack near a police convoy in Baghdad's Waziriya district, police sources said.202
09/02/06KERBALA - Gunmen attacked a bus carrying guards for Shi'ite shrines just north of Kerbala killing three and wounding eight, police said.303
09/02/06MAHAWEEL - A car bomb near a police station in Mahaweel in Babil province, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, killed three people and wounded 14, police said.303
09/01/06BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi policemen in Baghdad's southern Doura district on Friday, police said.033
09/01/06KERBALA - Police found the bodies of three men blindfolded and handcuffed in the southern Shi'ite city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, police said303
09/01/06MAHMUDIYA - Mortar shells slammed into a residential area in the town of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, killing one child. A separate mortar attack in Mahmudiya injured three civilians.101
09/01/06NEAR DUJAIL - A senior Iraqi intelligence officer during Saddam Hussein's rule was found dead with gunshot wounds and hands bound near his home north of Baghdad a day after he was kidnapped101
09/01/06NUMANIYA - Gunmen killed a policeman after storming his house Thursday night in the village of Numaniya, 120 km (72 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.011
 Total33891503539

This is not a complete list, nor can we verify these totals. This is simply a compilation of deaths reported by news agencies. Actual totals for Iraqi deaths are much higher than the numbers recorded on this site.

Deaths Since April 28, 2005
(Shiite-led government announced):

Police/Mil: 8085
Civilians: 49607
Total: 57692

Deaths Since February 22, 2006
(Al Askari Mosque bombing):

Police/Mil: 5787
Civilians: 43499
Total: 49286



For a detail list of Iraqi Deaths please see
The Iraqi Body Count
For a detail Report on mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq see
The Lancet Study (PDF)