The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. January 4, 2017 6,878 Iraqi Civilians Killed in 2016 ------------------------------------ In Iraq, fighting continues in Mosul amid the U.S. and Iraqi militaries' ongoing campaign to retake the city from ISIS. The United Nations says 6,878 Iraqi civilians were killed, and more than 12,000 were wounded, amid fighting in Iraq in 2016. .