By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Iraq has once again been gripped by severe violence this week with hundreds killed in multiple bombings and shootings, which have predominantly, and somewhat unsurprisingly, targeted Baghdad and the northern Provinces. Thursday 25 July saw at least 28 people were killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq. […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk In a similar pattern to last week violence intensified in Iraq this week as the major sectarian groups provoked and attacked one another in numerous shootings and bombings that were predominantly focused upon the northern and central belts, specifically in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk. We have chiefly witnessed an […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW In line with developments last week violence has intensified in Iraq this week with the resumption of multiple high impact attacks across the country, especially in the southern predominantly Shia provinces around Basra who bore the brunt of the violence toward the latter part of the reporting […]
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 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 […]
