In Iraq, the death toll from the last two days of violence has now topped one hundred. In Diwaniya, at least twenty-eight people were killed in what the New York Times calls “the most brazen clashes in recent memory” between the Iraqi army and forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr. Earlier today the Iraqi government announced it had reached a truce with Sadr’s militia to end the fighting there. The Independent of London reports more than 10,000 Iraqis have been killed in the last four months.