Iraq: The war logs | World news

The story: How US ignored torture

Leaks analysed by the Guardian show crimes have gone unpunished and civilian deaths been concealed
The interactive: One day in Iraq

Murders, kidnaps, bombs and shootings, log by log
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The video: Licence to torture

How the US gave its troops a chilling order to ignore detainee abuse by Iraqi authorities, however severe
- How civilians have paid war's heaviest price

Captives handed to torture squads

Nick Clegg calls for answers to 'extremely serious' abuse reports
Battle for Samarra killed innocents

Logs say nothing about 48 or more civilians killed in Operation Baton Rouge
Blunder may have let Zarqawi go free

UK helicopter ran out of fuel, allowing al-Qaida chief to evade capture
Steel Curtain and its casualties

Military did not mention 25 innocents lying in the rubble after operation

About the war logs

This series of reports on the war in Iraq is based on 391,832 previously secret US military field reports and details the unvarnished and often unknown realities of the war in Iraq. Read more about the logs and how the Guardian investigated them …

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Iraq: the war logs - one day, 146 deaths

24 hours of car bombs and mortars, of tortured corpses being found in every major city, of snipers, kidnaps and death squads
Secret order that let US ignore abuse

Mistreatment of helpless prisoners by Iraqi security forces included beatings, burning, electrocution and rape
15,000 previously unlisted deaths

Leaked Pentagon files contain records of more than 100,000 fatalities including 66,000 civilians
Soldiers killed surrendering insurgents

US military legal adviser told helicopter crew that Iraqi men were valid targets as they could not surrender to aircraft
Apache helicopters kill 14 civilians

'Gun runs' over Baghdad saw pilots blasting vehicles and buildings on the slightest suspicion
How friendly fire became routine

Americans have shot at their own troops or allies so often that in at least one case a strafed British vehicle didn't even stop