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UN: April deadliest month in Iraq since June 2008

The United Nations mission to Iraq says more people were killed in violent attacks across the country in April than in any other month since June 2008.The U.N. figures released on Thursday underscore concerns that security is quickly deteriorating in Iraq, where violence spiked in the last part of April.The UN says it recorded 712 people killed last month, including 117 members of the Iraqi security forces. The capital district of Baghdad was the worst affected.Casualty tolls in Iraq can vary considerably, with official reports at times differing from accounts from local police and hospital officials. The Associated Press recorded more than 400 killed last month.Iraq witnessed its deadliest bout of violence between 2006 and 2007, when the country was on the brink of civil war....

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  1. Media Advocate: Iraqi Forces Attacking Press

    BAGHDAD -- A media advocacy group on Wednesday criticized Iraqi security forces for what it described as a string of recent attacks on local journalists, saying the ...

  2. Iraqi Forces Kill al-Qaida-Linked Leader

    An Iraqi official says Iraqi security forces have killed the top military leader of the Islamic State of Iraq , an al-Qaida linked group responsible for bombings and...

  3. Series of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces kill 7

    Attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Tuesday killed seven people, including six soldiers, authorities said.Security forces are a top target for insurgents seek...

  4. 19 killed as Iraqi forces clash with suspected Al Qaeda militants

    Militants downed an Iraqi army helicopter on Thursday in clashes that have killed at least 19 people including 11 policemen, a regional official said, in what appear...

  5. US and Iraqi forces kill 6 in raid on former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, officials say

    BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a raid on the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah Wednesday, killing at least six people in the second incident thi...

  6. Rights group urges more backing in Iraq raid probe

    Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Iraqi authorities to give a government committee charged with probing a deadly raid by security forces on a protest camp last we...

  7. Iraqi Military Says It Will Remove Baghdad Blast Walls

    All blast walls designed to protect the streets of Baghdad will soon be taken off major thoroughfares, the Iraqi military said Wednesday, the latest in a government ...

  8. Iraqi Military Says It Will Remove Baghdad Blast Walls

    All blast walls designed to protect the streets of Baghdad will soon be taken off major thoroughfares, the Iraqi military said Wednesday, the latest in a government ...

  9. Full episode: Eyewitness to History

    Go inside the daily security operations of U.S. and Iraqi forces

  10. Suicide bombings, other attacks targeting Iraqi security forces , allies kill at least 10

    BAGHDAD (AP) — A spate of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and their allies killed at least 10 people on Thursday, half in suicide bombings in the northern ci...

  11. U.S., Iraqi Forces Kill 50 Militants in Baghdad Battle

    U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, backed by American warplanes, battled suspected insurgents for hours Tuesday on a central Baghdad street that has been an insurgent hot spot...

  12. Is Iraq better off today, than it was ten years ago?

    John Negroponte says the U.S. should have waited for the international inspection process to play out

  1. Gunmen kill 10 Iraqi security forces in 2 attacks

    Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad, the latest in a wave of violence that has raised fears the...

  2. Iraqi forces kill 'war minister' of Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaida front group

    Iraqi security forces killed the top military leader of an al-Qaida front group, surrounding his hideout and firing shots that blew up his booby-trapped getaway car,...

  3. Adviser to Iraqi Military Argues U.S. Should 'Declare Victory, Go Home' in 2010

    WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Army adviser to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad argues in an internal memo that the U.S. should "declare victory and go home" next year, 1...

  4. Iraqi Forces Launch Raids in Fallujah

    Iraqi forces launched raids Saturday into an industrial zone in Fallujah where authorities fear Sunni insurgents could be seeking to regain footholds in areas they o...

  5. U.S., Iraqi Forces Capture 50 Insurgents in Gunbattle

    U.S. and Iraqi forces responded to an insurgent attack on a police station Wednesday, fighting a two-hour gunbattle that ended with the capture and detention of 50 o...

  6. U.S. Army General: Iraqi Security Forces Still Need Help

    The general who led efforts to train Iraq's army and police units said Wednesday that progress is mixed and long-term U.S. help is needed.Army Lt. Gen. James Dubik s...

  7. Iraqi security forces surround protest site

    Iraqi authorities deployed security forces around the main rallying point for Sunni protests in western Iraq overnight and say the area has become a haven for terror...

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