Iraq Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Iraq are provided by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries, with updates continuing through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual civilian-targeting rates across different years in Iraq
• Monitoring the frequency of demonstrations to assess civil unrest levels

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a leading authority on conflict data
• Weekly update frequency
• Categorizes events into specific types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks granular event-level details like specific coordinates or exact dates
• Requires external registration for full event-level access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Weekly updates.

Geography

Iraq