"Honour" killings? I hope this is a short term trend that fades away. Although I am a bit suspect of the "since the fall of" statement as I imagine that there weren't great stats on this before hand. But folks in the medical field in Iraq probably have a good sense of the trend.

KurdishMedia News - Daily Kurdish news updates: "Faeq Ameen Bakr, director general of Baghdad’s Institute of Forensic Medicine in Baghdad, often writes “killed to wash away her disgrace” in the many autopsy reports and investigations that cross his desk.

The number of so-called honour killings - where a woman is killed by family members because they believe she has in some way shamed them - is said to have increased in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. "