When, last October, the Lancet published a study which concluded that the Iraq war had caused 655,000 more deaths than would have been expected if the conflict had not happened, the Prime Minister's official spokesman dismissed its findings as nowhere near accurate. He said the survey had ...
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks, which appeared co-ordinated, but Sunni Muslim insurgents including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq have significantly stepped up bombings this year. More than two years of civil war in neighbouring Syria have aggra...
As we begin the 16th year of the Iraq war, the American public must come to terms with the scale of the violence and chaos we have unleashed in Iraq. Only then may we find the political will to bring this horrific cycle of violence to an end, to replace war with diplomacy and hostili...
Special Report: Iraq in Transition WASHINGTON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Four U.S. soldiers died Sunday night in a roadside bombing in Iraq, bringing the American toll in the five-year war to 4,000. U.S. soldiers patrol in Diyala Province, northeastof Baghdad. The death toll of US ...
PLoS Medicine/Hagopian A.et al. A half a million deaths in Iraq could be attributable to the war — but not necessarily as a direct result of violence, according to a new estimate of the human cost of the war and occupation in Iraq from 2003–2011. ...
DAMASCUS, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from U.S. airstrikes on areas controlled by the Syrian government forces and Iranian militias in eastern Syria has risen to 23, a war monitor reported on Saturday. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 13 fighters, nine of whom...
It found that Afghanistan experienced approximately 157,000 deaths since 9/11 while up to 308,000 people may have lost their lives in Iraq. The Syria war and efforts to defeatISIShave resulted in an estimated 179,000 fatalities while war in Yemen and Pakistan has killed 90,000 and 66,000...
·The death toll rose sharply to 175 from four suicide car bombings nearMosul Tuesday.·The coordinately bombings attack was one of the deadliest attacks since the Iraq war.·The four bombings apparently targeted residents from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority. ...
The publication of every new study on the death toll in Iraq is greeted with strong denials or enthusiastic media coverage by pro-war... HF Morayef 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 Blair: Assad as temporary leader is lesser of two evils TYRANT Bashar Assad may have to stay temporarily as Syrian ...
Predictably, the finding has met with criticism from supporters of the war from the US president downwards. If it holds, the study will be a key publication in the growing field of conflict epidemiology. Understanding who is dying, how and where in Iraq is vital for efforts to rebuild the ...