en 1.8 /Tlwv Tutorials Tlwv Spanish police arrest 74 in Internet child sex swoop Violence claimed the lives of at least 6,878 civilian Iraqis last year, the United Nation stanley cup s said on Monday, as the Iraqi government struggles to maintain security nationwide and to dislodge Islamic State group militants from areas under stanley cup their control. Violence claimed the lives of at least 6,878 civilian Iraqis last year, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Iraqi government struggles to maintain security nationwide REUTERS File Photo The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, known as UNAMI, said its numbers have to be considered as the absolute minimum as it has not been able to verify casualties among civilians in conflict areas stanley cup , and of those who lost their lives due to secondary effects of violence ... due to exposure to the elements, lack of water, food, medicines and health care. Read | Iraq: Before blast, suicide bomber attracted crowd by offering job; 36 killed UNAMI said in a statement that 12,388 other civilians were wounded in 2016. It added that last year figures didnt include casualties among civilians in Iraqs western Anbar province for the months of May, July, August and December. According to UNAMI figures, at least 7,515 civilians were killed in 2015. The monthly UN casualty report for December 2016 showed that a total of 386 civilians were killed and another 1,066 were wounded. The worst affected area was the northern province of Ninevah, where government forces are fighting to retake the IS-held city of Mosul, with 208 civilians killed and 5 Flcc 44 Taliban killed in Afghanistan A project to preserve the broadest historical record of the independence struggle in India, Pakistan and other South Asian nations has been launched by America s Yale University. HT Image The South Asian Independence Movement SAIM project launched on Tuesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the two South Asian neighbours independence is seeking physical or digital artefacts and memorabilia associated with events or people involved in the freedom movement. The New Haven, Connecticut, South Asian Studies Council SASC of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies at Yale is also looking for personal recollections and narratives describin stanley cup g experiences from the period to enrich the published and archival record. In addition, the SAIM proje stanley cup ct aims to supplement the scholarly and historic collections of the Yale University Library by filling key gaps in books and other archival material stanley cup s collections related to the independence movement. Mridu Rai, associate professor of history at the Yale University, said: These human insights are important to gather before they fade away because they can bring to life the published record of the era. We are asking people to help us write history by sharing with us their reflections along with any memorabilia they might possess relating to those momentous times. Barin Desai, a US-based physician and Pravin Bhatt, a retired Yale research scholar and secretary emeritus of SASC, acted as catalysts beh