Militer AS mengatakan Rabu, bahwa dalam bulan ketiga operasi, jumlah korban warga sipil jumlahnya turun di Baghdad, namun pada saat yang sama terjadi peningkatan korban di seluruh penjuru Irak.
The U.S. military said on Wednesday that for the third month in a row, civilian casualties had declined in Baghdad but that in the same period there had been an increase in casualties across Iraq.