By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW This week saw a change in the security situation with a significant decrease in the recent persistent levels of violence that have plagued the country. We have seen a reduced number of high impact attacks taking place, as much of the Sunni insurgency focus would appear to […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW This week saw no huge changes in the security situation other than a marginal increase in the number of high impact bombings and a slight geographical shift south. We continue to see pervading levels of daily violence with significant numbers of fatalities and wounding’s. The number […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Levels of violence remained steady in Iraq this week with the majority of activity occurring in the central and northern belts, especially along the Tigris River Valley and Baghdad. Transnational influences, both in the west and north have also continued to dominate events as the effect of […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Despite the ever present daily churn of violence in Iraq the country experienced a degree of hiatus this week with a slow down in the number of daily high impact mass fatality attacks that have been a key feature of the period of April / May 2013. […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW In a week peppered with violence Iraqis continue to bear the brunt of heightened sectarian tensions and increased insurgent bombings as the country’s political elite continue to procrastinate and find little way forward. Bombing and fighting across the northern and central belts throughout the reporting has left […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Despite recent levels of heightened violence and multiple catastrophic attacks over the past weeks Iraq was somewhat spared similar events during this reporting period. As a result we have seen a correspondingly lower number of fatalities across the country with 89 killed, down 154 on last weeks […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk NEWS UPDATE Several bomb blasts in Iraq have killed at least 11 people and wounded dozens more in the latest eruption of violence, officials reported this morning. The blasts, including at least one car bomb, targeted the capital, Baghdad, and the northern city of Mosul. At least one car […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Severe countrywide violence has gripped Iraq this week in a continuation of recent sectarian hostilities, which claimed the lives of approx. 401 people, bringing the yearly total to approx. 2486. After a brief period of respite levels of violence rose dramatically during this brief reporting period with […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk NEWS FLASH Levels of violence rose dramatically during this brief reporting period with multiple high impact attacks across the country, especially in the central and southern belts. With Friday Prayers in Baquba and Baghdad heavily targeted nearly 93 people were killed in one day, the highest total of any […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Levels of violence dropped this week in Iraq in a welcome respite from the previous weeks heightened levels of attacks and political uncertainty. Approx. 119 people were killed this week, bringing the yearly total to approx. 2085. Despite the drop in high impact attacks Iraq was by […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Sectarian violence has continued this week in Iraq, but at a tempo somewhat reduced from the previous weeks. With the number of high impact attacks and skirmishes waning fatalities this week fell to approx. 146, bringing the yearly total to approx 1966. In line with the recent […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW At least 279 people have died this week in Iraq as a result of continuing sectarian violence and government crackdowns, bringing the total number of fatalities this year to approx. 1820. Sectarian violence has continued to rage throughout Iraq in a week, which prompted one UN diplomat […]
