BAGHDAD, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Violence, terrorist acts and armed conflicts across Iraq have killed 109 civilians and wounded 237 others in October, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said on Wednesday.
A UNAMI statement said figures of casualties do not include security members, as the Iraqi military declined to give information about casualties among the troops.
Previous figures of security members' casualties released by UNAMI were questioned by the Iraqi military as "inaccurate."
Among the Iraqi provinces, the Iraqi capital of Baghdad witnessed most of the civilian casualties with 38 were killed and 139 others injured in violence, while 36 were killed and 55 injured in Iraq's western province of Anbar, where the Iraqi forces are fighting to drive out Islamic State (IS) militants from their last urban stronghold in the cities of al-Qaim and Rawa near the border with Syria.
Many blame the current chronic instability, cycle of violence, and the emergence of extremist groups, such as the IS, on the United States that invaded and occupied Iraq in March 2003, under the pretext of seeking to destroy weapons of mass destruction in the country. But no such weapons have been found.
