"We know that ISIL [Islamic State] takes great pleasure in executions, beheadings, immolations and other assorted acts of barbarism…so we could only imagine what life must have been like in Ramadi," Warren noted. "But we do not yet have a reliable figure for how many civilians they killed."
In May 2014, Daesh occupied Ramadi when the defense of the city by Iraqi security forces collapsed. Ramadi was retaken after weeks of fierce fighting from December 2015 to February 2016.
A total of 1,406 Iraqis were killed and another 3,074 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq overall from December 2015 to February 2016, according to numbers posted on the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq’s website.
Daesh is a terrorist group that claims to have established an Islamic caliphate on the territory under its control in Syria and Iraq, and that has led or inspired attacks in Europe. The group is outlawed in many countries around the world, including the United States and Russia.
