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
Sunday 17 September: 7 killed
Muharibeen village west of Mosul: 3 killed, 23 injured, including women and children in booby-trap bomb explosion at a school being used to train pro-government volunteer tribal fighters (of whom up to 12 were also killed)
Seidy Abdullah neighbourhood southern Baghdad: 1 killed, 4 injured in IED explosion targeting shops
Dar Revolution, west of Mosul: 2, the headless bodies of a husband and wife found
Alexandria, north of Babylon: 1 body found of a woman in her fifties with wounds
Saturday 16 September: 23 killed
al-Adan neighbourhood, Kirkuk: 3 killed, 10 injured by late-night car bomb outside alcohol seller's shop
Akashat, western Anbar: 6 members of popular mobilisation force by IED
Tal-Afar or Qaim: 2 deserters executed by ISIS
Muqdadiyah, northeast of Diyala: 2, a civilian and a police officer killed, 7 others injured by suicide bomber attack near shopping mall
al-Jihad neighbourhood, western Baghdad: 1 government employee by IED placed in his car
Ameriyah, north of Baquba: 1 body found of an unidentified young man, showing signs of hanging, dumped in farmland
North of Baquba: 2 bodies found of men with gunshot wounds to the head and chest
Ramadi: 1 killed, another injured, by roadside bomb
Hawija outskirts: 5 family members of an ISIS militant, including 2 children, killed by roadside bomb while fleeing the city on foot [update]
Friday 15 September: 7 killed
Hor Rajab area, south of Baghdad: 1 killed, 3 wounded by roadside bombe planted near marketplace
Kara Tepe, northeast of Baquba: 1 farmer killed by IED placed on an agricultural road
al-Qaim: 3 young men, accused of collaboration with security forces, executed by ISIS
Radwaniyah, west of Baghdad: 2 members of a tribal group killed in gunfire on their vehicle
Thursday 14 September: 93 killed
Near Nasiriyah: 84 killed, "most of them Iranians" and another 93 wounded, with 19 victims said to be children, in suicide bomber, grenade and gunfire attacks on diners at a restaurant and pilgrims at a checkpoint, claimed by ISIS
al-Sukkar neighbourhood, Mosul: 2 brothers shot by unidentified gunmen near their home
North Babylon: 2 bodies found
Northeast of Baquba: 1 by Peshmerga "warning fire" attempting to force him to stop his car
East Baghdad: 1 body found, shot in head and chest, with signs of torture
Anu, west of Ramadi: 3 member family killed, "including a girl and a woman", 10 others wounded, in aerial bombardment by unidentified warplane
Wednesday 13 September: 12 killed
Nahrawan, west of Baghdad: 1 killed, 6 wounded by IED planted near brick kilns
Besmaya village, southeast of Baghdad: 1 killed, 8 wounded by IED
Musayyib, north of Hilla: 1 policeman killed 10 others including civilians wounded by suicide attack on a checkpoint
Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk: 1, ISIS executing one of its leaders for "reluctance"
Zayouna: 2 killed, 11 injured by booby-trapped IED in a motorcycle
Hawija district of Kirkuk: 5 killed in aerial bombardment that destroyed several homes [updated]
Abu Saida in Miqdadiya, northeast of Baquba: 1 killed, 3 wounded, by mortar shell striking a house
Tuesday 12 September: 5 killed
Imam Gharbi village, Qayyarah, south of Mosul: 2 female children killed, three other children injured, by explosive war remnants or possibly booby-trapped toys
al-Mashtal region, east of Baghdad: 1 killed, 1 wounded, by bomb planted inside a car
Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad: 1 killed, two wounded by roadside bomb
Kut: 1 body of a man found, shot, whose kidnappers had lured him into an industrial area on the pretext of buying his car
Monday 11 September: 17 killed
Industrial area near Abu Ghraib: 1 killed, 7 wounded by roadside bomb
Rashidiya, north of Baghdad: 1 killed by unknown gunmen opening fire near his home
Badrah, east of Kut: 1 killed, 3 wounded in outbreak of tribal conflict
Qaim, west Anbar: 7 killed by ISIS "over accusations of collaborating with security forces"
Mosul: 1 electrical power grid engineer (Fattah Khalaf Saleh) by roadside bomb
North of Kirkuk: 1 policeman in armed attack on his car, a civilian wounded
Al-Sukkar, NE of Mosul: 3 including a woman in armed attack on their house
Dhi Qar: 2 killed in tribal conflict involving "heavy and light weapons"