TEHRAN (Tasnim) The United Nations said that violence across Iraq in February killed 703 people, a death toll higher than the year before as the country faces a rising wave of militant attacks. The figures issued by the UN Mission to Iraq is close to January's death toll of 733, showing that a surge of violence that began 10 months ago with a government ...

More than 800 people were killed in Iraq as a result of violence in the month of August, the United Nations mission in the country says. The UN said on Sunday that 807 people, including Iraqi civilians and security forces, had been killed in August. Another 2,000 people were reportedly injured in the same month. According to the report, the Iraqi ...