BAGHDAD, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Violence across Iraq killed 75 civilians in September, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said Monday.
A UNAMI statement added that 179 civilians were wounded in the terror attacks and armed conflicts in Iraq in the past month.
Iraqi capital Baghdad was the worst affected with 101 civilian casualties, as 31 people were killed and 70 others wounded, the statement said.
The second was the country's western province of Anbar, with 52 civilian casualties, as 15 were killed and 37 wounded.
The security situation in Iraq has been dramatically improved after Iraqi security forces fully defeated the extremist Islamic State militants across the country late in 2017.
However, small groups and individuals of extremist militants melted or regrouped in urban and rugged areas and are carrying out attacks against the security forces and civilians despite operations from time to time to hunt them down.
Many blame the chronic instability, cycle of violence, and the emergence of extremist groups in Iraq on the United States, which invaded the country in March 2003, under the pretext of seeking to destroy weapons of mass destruction in the country. But no such weapons were found.
