Iraqi policemen inspect the scene of a car bombing in Kirkuk Oct. 15, 2006.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

UK army chief seeks Iraq pullout

    LONDON, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Britain should withdraw its troops from Iraq as their continued presence only exacerbates the country's security problems, Britain's top army commander said in an interview published on Friday.

Four killed as car bombs rock Kirkuk city

    BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- At least four people were killed and up to 40 others wounded, including six policemen, when four car bombs rocked the city of Kirkuk on Sunday, local police said.

War has cost 600,000 lives in Iraq

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- A team of U.S. and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in the violence across Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the highest estimate ever for the war's death toll, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

    The figure breaks down to about 15,000 violent deaths a month, a number that is quadruple the one for July given by Iraqi government hospitals and the morgue in Baghdad and published last month in a United Nations report in Iraq. Full Story

107 bullet-riddled bodies found around Baghdad

    BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The Iraqi police have found 107 unidentified bodies in the past two days, most of them believed to be the latest victims of sectarian violence, according to media reports Wednesday. Full Story

Violence, killings escalate in Iraq: U.N. official

    GENEVA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Violence and killings in Iraq have escalated in the past seven to eight months, with some 100 people killed in the country every day, the United Nations top humanitarian official said here on Wednesday. Full Story

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