The cost of conflict in Iraq

Published: 1 December 2008 y., Monday

Decomposed bodies found in a mass grave in northern Iraq.
Finds like this are quite common - they date back to a sectarian conflict which took Iraq to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.

Šaltinis: Reuters
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