{"id":98324,"date":"2014-07-18T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=98324"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:37:25","slug":"un-some-5500-civilians-killed-in-iraq-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=98324","title":{"rendered":"UN: Some 5,500 Civilians Killed in Iraq This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iraq_bomb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-98301\" alt=\"iraq_bomb\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iraq_bomb.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iraq_bomb.jpg 410w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iraq_bomb-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/iraq_bomb-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a>Violence in Iraq has killed more than 5,500 civilians over the first six months of the year, the U.N. said Friday in a new report that documents the massive humanitarian toll of an ongoing Sunni militant offensive in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In its report, the U.N. mission to Iraq said at least 5,576 civilians were killed and another 11,665 wounded in Iraq from Jan. 1 through the end of June. Another 1.2 million people have been driven from their homes by the violence, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The pace of civilian deaths over the first six months marked a sharp increase over the previous year. In all of 2013, the U.N. reported just over 7,800 civilians killed, which was the highest annual death toll in years.<\/p>\n<p>The report also documents human rights abuses by both sides of the conflict that may constitute crimes against humanity or war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. urged all sides in the conflict to ensure the protection of civilians, and to respect international law and humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in Iraq has killed more than 5,500 civilians over the first six months of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}