Iraq Monthly Roundup: 355 Killed or Found in Mass Graves.

Overall, at least 355 people were killed or found in mass graves during July. Another 127 were wounded.

During July, at least 177 people were killed, and 113 were wounded in violence-related to Iraq and the Daesh terrorist group. At least 35 of them were civilians; 19 were security personnel, and 121 were terrorists themselves.

At least 106 bodies were unearthed from mass graves; however, at least 80 of those victims were killed during the Anfal Genocide in the 1980s. Also, 66 civilians, 43 security personnel, and four terrorists were wounded.

In the conflicts between Turkey, and Kurdish rebels, at least 72 people died and 14 were wounded in Iraq. Of those killed, 67 ostensibly belonged to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) and were killed in Turkish missions related to Operation Claw.

At least three Turkish soldiers were reported killed, and six more were wounded, while on missions inside Iraq. Turkish airstrikes also left at least five Iraqi civilians injured.

At least 14 people were killed, and five were wounded in recent attacks:

Five security members were killed, and another two were wounded during an attack at a checkpoint in Dujail.

A mortar attack on Garmiyan left two civilians with injuries. Later, two security personnel were killed at a checkpoint.

In Abbasiya, an attack left one policeman dead and another wounded.

A civilian was gunned down in Baghdad.

Turkish jets targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (P.K.K.) sites in Avastin-Basyan left five of the guerrillas dead.

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