There are 4,360 Dead, 3,920 Wounded in Iraq within November 2016!
Monday, December 05, 2016
VietPress USA (Dec. 5th, 2016): According the the Musings-on-Iraq Website, there are 4,360 Dead, 3,920 Wounded in Iraq within November 2016! That is a very sad news. The Mosul Campaign is 50th day today on Dec. 5th 2016 and the death toll raised up every hour in Iraq.
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4,360 Dead,
3,920 Wounded In Iraq November 2016
November
2016 saw the highest casualties in Iraq recorded by Musings On Iraq since June
2014 when the Islamic State swept through northern and central Iraq.
There were
a total of 8,280 casualties during the month. 4,360 were killed, consisting of
1 Hashd al-Watani, 4 Peshmerga, 14 Sahwa, 54 Hashd, 121 Iraqi Security Forces
(ISF), and 1,794 ISF, Sahwa, Hashd, Peshmerga reported by the United Nations.
Another 3,920 were wounded made up of 2 Hashd al-Watani, 4 Sahwa, 5 Peshmerga,
68 Hashd, 458 ISF, and 3,383 civilians. Back in June 2014 there were 8,798
casualties with 5,100 dead and 3,698 injured.
In
comparison, the United Nations had 3,229 dead and 1,509 wounded, and Iraq Body
Count had 1,586 civilian fatalities.
The main
driver of casualties during November was the Mosul campaign. There were 1,577
people who died in Ninewa made up of 1 Hashd al-Watani, 1 Peshmerga, 42 Hashd,
59 ISF, and 1,474 civilians. Another 2,566 were wounded consisting of 2 Hashd
al-Watani, 55 Hashd, 372 ISF, and 2,137 civilians. Most of the 1,794 ISF,
Sahwa, Hashd and Peshmerga that the U.N. had were probably in that province as
well. The Islamic State executed a total of 942 people. Several mass graves
have been discovered, and IS has been killing people in Mosul to try to
maintain control of the population. Another 74 civilians died and 79 were
injured by Coalition air strikes. IS mortar fire has also taken a heavy toll on
civilians within Mosul, while many of the casualties amongst the Iraqi forces
have come from suicide and car bombs. The press had 4 car bombs, 10 suicide
bombers, and 10 suicide car bombs hitting the Iraqi forces, but the real number
is likely higher. Another 6 motorcycle bombs, 39 suicide car bombs, 61 suicide
bombers, and 209 car bombs were killed and destroyed.
After
Ninewa, Baghdad had the most casualties. There were 239 incidents reported
there leading to 288 dead and 881 wounded. Since the Mosul offensive began the
press has been reporting less and less on the capital. That means there were
probably far more attacks and casualties then were in the media in November.
There were 7 car bombs, the most since 13 in May. Another two were dismantled
before they exploded. The real killer however was the 143 IEDs. The south, 77
incidents, was the most violent section of the governorate, followed by 56 in
the north, 48 in the west, 35 in the east, 10 in the center, and 2 in unknown
locations.
Anbar had a
high number of dead and wounded. 22 incidents led to 313 fatalities and 98
injured. Most of those killed came from the Anbar Health Directorate, and no
details were provided on where or how they were caused. During the month, IS
was able to set off two car bombs in Fallujah, the first since it was
liberated. It also hit a wedding in Amiriya Fallujah with a suicide car bomb
that killed 25 and wounded 45.
Babil had 7
incidents, 82 killed, and 60 wounded. A suicide truck bomb caused almost all of
those casualties hitting mostly Iranian pilgrims in the town of Shomali leaving
80 dead and 58 injured.
Diyala
continued to see low-level violence with an occasional mass casualty bombing.
In November a suicide car bomb hit a checkpoint in Khalis killing 10 and
wounding another 25. Otherwise there were 2 mortar incidents, 7 shootings, and
18 IEDs leading to a total of 33 dead and 44 injured.
Karbala had
two rare security incidents. First, six suicide bombers were stopped at a
checkpoint in Ain al-Tamer. Five were killed, but the fifth set off his device
taking 8 lives and injuring 5. Two days later two more suicide bombers were
killed in the western section of the province. All of these attackers came from
Anbar.
IS picked
up its operations in Salahaddin. The militants started off the month hitting
pilgrims in Tikrit and Samarra with suicide bombs hidden in ambulances that
left 27 killed and 141 wounded, most of which were Iranians. Two mass graves
with 40 bodies of victims of the insurgents were discovered in Shirqat. Then
finally, at the end of the month five suicide bombers hit a checkpoint in
Samarra leaving 12 dead and 8 injured. In total, there were 27 incidents, 191
killed, and 201 wounded.
In Kirkuk
people fleeing the IS controlled district of Hawija and others executed there
accounted for almost all of the casualties. There were a total of 43 incidents,
72 dead, and 63 wounded. Of those, 16 people died and 39 were wounded mostly by
IEDs trying to get out of Hawija. IS also killed a further 21.
Kurdistan
had three incidents. In Irbil, an Imam connected to the Kurdistan Islamic Union
was shot and killed by gunmen in front of his house. In Halabja, a Peshmerga
was shot and wounded. Finally, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) office in
Chamchamal, Sulaymaniya was shot up.
Source: http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/12/4360-dead-3920-wounded-in-iraq-november.html\
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