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)

The outgoing UN envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler has warned the violence is "ready to explode".

Another bloody day in Iraq as political deadlock lingers Wave of car bombs, shootings, mostly targeting Shiites, kill 25 people as Iraq grapples with prolonged political deadlock. Middle East Online By Ahmed al-Rubaye – BAGHDAD Death toll rises A wave of car bombs and shootings, mostly targeting Shiites, killed 25 people Sunday as Iraq grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged political deadlock, sparking fears of all-out sectarian war. In all, at least 10 vehicles rigged with explosives went off in eight cities in Iraq's Shiite Muslim-majority south during morning rush hour, leaving around 100 people wounded, while the main northern city of Mosul witnessed a deadly shooting.

VIOLENCE ACROSS IRAQ ON MONDAY