The security situation in Iraq has deteriorated dramatically over the past six months. Though much of the violence in Iraq over the past six years has been random, aimed at soft targets such as markets and restaurants, its nature changed last summer.
伊拉克的安全形势在过去 6 个月以来急剧恶化。虽然在这一时期内发生的绝大多数暴力行为都是随机的，只针对一些类似市场和餐馆这样的“软目标”，但这些暴力行为的性质早在去年夏天时就已经发生了根本性的转变。