Across Asia: Iraq

Violence toll: 85,000

At least 85,000 people lost their lives from 2004 to 2008 during Iraq's violent, sectarian uprising, according to the first official report by the Iraqi government on the death toll since the war began.

The report, released by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry late on Tuesday, said 85,694 people were killed from 2004-08, and 147,195 were wounded during the same period.