This chart shows just how bad things are getting in Iraq

This chart shows just how bad things are getting in Iraq

BY ANUP KAPHLE

February 5 at 11:13 am


A senior member of the al-Qaeda-linked ISIS group stands next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. (Militant Web site via AP)

This happened in Baghdad today:
Two car bombs went off simultaneously in two parking lots, across the street from the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Twelve people were killed.
A suicide bomber walked into a falafel restaurant and set off his explosives-laden belt. Five people were killed.
A bomb inside a parked car went off in a commercial center. Five people were killed.

A total of 22 people were killed and 45 wounded in three separate attacks in the Iraqi capital, which came just days after one of its bloodiest months. But the rise in violence goes back even further, as this chart shows:


(Washington Post Graphics)