This conflict is called civil war by some but officially it s not yet everyone acknowledges it may BECOME and this practically any moment imagine for example if the Sunnis assassinated Sistani The UN people are neutral experts and they say it s Islamic extremism and they were actually hit in one of the insurgent attacks unrelated to the sectarian violence talking about being there You are just an amatour and the UN wouldn t even ask you for your opinion get over it Problem is people can go here and think the so much talked for years now sliding towards escalating into civil war is declared and going on and get confused This is misleading to say it mildly If you are aware of that this is vandalising When I first came there it was even worse the insurgency including attacks against Coalition forces was confused with the sectarian violence probably copy pasted without thinking Oh and don t talk silly crazy about some flowers and music Anyway I ll answer seriously the main articles for you are Iraq war Iraqi insurgency sectarian violence in Iraq as the articles titles alone say there is war insurgency and violence going on there each one connected to another well Iraqi music is actually too There are also multiple sub articles plenty of these some with the names like massacre as for your BLOODBATH There even articles on the casualties Here you can go back if the civil war officially started that is declared by the other side the Shia militias the government of Iraq or the UN the media will start calling it by this name too