Although the government has issued no death toll for the violence, a tally compiled from official statements, news reports and witness accounts puts the dead at about 30.
Before last week's violence in Shindand, a tally by the Associated Press showed 151 civilians had been killed in Afghanistan this year, including 100 by the Taliban.
The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group, said in its daily tally of violence that at least 115 people had been killed and that in Maaret al-Nouman, in Idlib Province, the Free Syrian Army had captured more than 40 government troops and seized weapons.
A new tally of violence against women in England and Wales disclosed this week found that more than 900 women had been killed by men over a six-year period, most by their current or former partners.
A new tally of violence against women in England and Wales disclosed this week that more than 900 women had been killed by men over a six-year period, most by their current or former partners.
Because of this, the case — like other misclassified incidents — was left out of the department's tally of violence in the city.
Though official statistics do not separate tribal violence from general crime, a tally of local press reports suggests that at least 17 people have been killed and 74 wounded this year in clan battles and blood feuds in Urfa Province, to which Siverek belongs.
– except that whenever I took the fatalities for "the worst month for violence so far" and multiplied the tally by every month since the invasion the total still fell far, far short of 600,000.
A question at the heart of the debate is whether the military counts bombing victims, including ones from the ubiquitous car bombs, when tallying deaths from sectarian violence.
