INTERNATIONAL - The military operation to retake the city of Mosul who ruled the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) lasted seven weeks.
For two nearly two months, the number of casualties, either killed or wounded, on the part of the Iraqi joint forces large enough.
The UN mission in Iraq released a list of the number of victims of last November. In the records of the United Nations, as many as 1,959 Iraqi military personnel were killed and 450 others injured.
The number of casualties recorded in the UN, including members of the police, the army, the peshmerga forces, interior ministry troops and pro-government militias.
The UN also noted as many as 926 civilians were killed during November so that the total number of Iraqis who died from violence during last month reached 2,885 people.
"The number of victims is staggering, the number of civilian casualties is also very significant," said UN special envoy in Iraq, Jan. Cabbage, last weekend.
Cabbage said the death toll continues to increase is the result of persistent ISIS maintains Mosul city that is claimed as the capital of the caliphate founded ISIS.
"ISIS uses very nasty tactics, they wear home residents as a place to put weapons or defense. They also use the residents as human shields," said Cabbage.
In fact, the US-led coalition forces that helped offensively anti-ISIS in Iraq and Syria last week admitted accidentally killed 54 civilians in both countries during the period March to October.
"Although the coalition forces trying to destroy only military targets to minimize civilian casualties, in some cases inevitable civilian casualties," a statement from the US coalition last week.
Meanwhile, officials in the Kurdistan region said, since ISIS captured most parts of Iraq in 2014, as many as 1,600 peshmerga fighters were killed in the battle against ISIS.
"Since the beginning of the war against ISIS, which means that in June 2014 until the end of November, as many as 1,614 members of the peshmerga were killed and 9515 injured," said the secretary general of the Ministry of Peshmerga, Jabar Yawar.