Lowest Civilian Death Toll in Iraq, in 2010, Still In Thousands

The year 2010 has seen the lowest number of civilian casualties in Iraq since the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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Lowest Civilian Death Toll in Iraq, in 2010, Still In Thousands
A woman shouts in despair after a car bomb killed mainly women and traffic police: an Iraqi Body Count report shows civilian deaths in Iraq in 2010 are the lowest since the U.S. invasion in 2003, but as most U.S. troops left the country this summer, violence continues killing over 10 civilians a day. (Khalil Al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images )
12/30/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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A woman shouts in despair after a car bomb killed mainly women and traffic police: an Iraqi Body Count report shows civilian deaths in Iraq in 2010 are the lowest since the U.S. invasion in 2003, but as most U.S. troops left the country this summer, violence continues killing over 10 civilians a day. (Khalil Al-Murshidi/AFP/Getty Images )
The year 2010 has seen the lowest number of civilian casualties in Iraq since the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to numbers published Thursday by the NGO Iraqi Body Count (IBC).

In total 3,976 civilians died in Iraq this year according to the IBC. Suicide bombings and other explosions have been responsible for two-thirds of civilian deaths.

The organization counts and crosschecks the civilian deaths that result from violence and are reported by hospitals, media and other NGOs.

In October WikiLeaks published 391,832 classified reports from the Iraq war, consisting mostly of field reports. According to IBC, the WikiLeaks reports documented an additional 15,000 cases in addition of the already 108,398 documented civilian casualties since 2003.