Iraq Risk Management Report: Thousands killed and more than a million displaced by ISIL crisis


Risk Management Reports
Issue 975 - 01 Aug 2014 | 1 minute read

It has been more than a decade since the US-led war in Iraq, and more than two years since the formal withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Violence continues to disrupt daily life and has worsened significantly over the past year: the United Nations mission in Iraq says there were 7,818 civilians killed in 2013, the highest civilian death toll since 2008. The 10 June fall of Mosul to jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS, and subsequently renamed the Islamic State) has threatened to throw Iraq into all out sectarian conflict.

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