Around 46,000 people have been killed in Iraq fighting the islamic state militant group over the last year, a local NGO said this week.
According to Hashd, an NGO that documents cases of genocide, the casualties include 40,000 government troops, 3,000 members of the Al-Hashd al-Shaabi Shia militia, and 3,000 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Sunni tribesmen.
The last year has seen frequent clashes between Iraqi forces – backed by Al-Hashd al-Shaabi militiamen and Peshmerga forces – and the Daesh militant group in the Iraqi provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk, Saladin and Anbar.
Although islamic state recently lost several areas of Diyala, Nineveh and Saladin, it remains in control of most of Anbar province.
