Pacified Baghdad

You can't have an escalation without someone getting hurt:

“An Interior Ministry official, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to release the figures, said 1,944 civilians were killed in May, a 29 percent hike over April. At least 174 soldiers and policemen were killed in the same period. … Mortar attacks in the capital are becoming deadlier and car bombs remain common.”

And you know that these figures are lowballed. There are a lot of bodies that simply "disappear".