Iraq Body Count (IBC) is an analytical project, not a news portal. Our procedure is to collect and reconcile every available, distinct report about each incident. For larger events, stories may run into the dozens and continue to emerge for days or weeks. This, and the inexorable rise in daily violent incidents, means that there is a considerable gap between the initial reporting of events and their first appearance in the IBC database.
However, we obtain an early impression of events within about 48 hours of first reports. This page provides our news gatherer's account of such recent events, but please keep in mind that these are not our final database entries. Rather, they should be considered an early update on civilian casualties.
Recent Events
Monday 20 November: 1 killed
Hilla: 1 lawyer killed by gunmen.
Sunday 19 November: 1 killed
Muqdadiya: 1 killed by gunmen.
Wednesday 15 November: 1 killed
Kirkuk: 1 man killed in explosion.
Monday 13 November: 1 killed
Qara Ghouliyah: 1 teenage girl shot in the head.
Thursday 9 November: 2 killed
Baghdad: 1 lawyer stabbed in Doura;
1 Interior Ministry employee killed in Canan road.
Wednesday 8 November: 2 killed
Basra: 2 killed in armed attack.
Tuesday 7 November: 2 killed
Karbala: 2 killed by gunmen.