(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) At least 15,000 civilians have been killed and twice as many wounded in Iraq's armed conflict since the start of 2014, the United Nations said in a report Monday.
The world body's mission in Iraq published the figure in the latest installment of its "Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq." The U.N. "recorded at least 44,136 civilian casualties (14,947 killed and 29,189 wounded) as a result of the non-international armed conflict in Iraq."
The report says the figure, which runs up to the end of April 2015, only accounts for casualties it was able to verify and acknowledges the real toll may be much higher, AFP said.
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