Anup Kaphle checks in on Iraq:
You can see that violence has spiked considerably since the war’s formal end and the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops.
Last month, 992 people were killed in Iraq, according to numbers recorded by AFP, as the country struggles to contain deadly attacks by Sunni militants. Iraqi ministries of health and defense put the death toll even higher, saying that at least 1,013 people were killed in January, including 795 civilians, 122 soldiers and 96 policemen.
That makes January the deadliest month for Iraq since April 2008, when nearly 1,100 people were killed as the country was still rising from the ashes of a brutal sectarian war.
The Dish 