Some of these kinds of violence continue to be perpetrated by certain individuals and groups in the new Iraq.   Mahmoud continued, "In the last six months at least eight women have been killed in Mosul alone - all apparently by Islamic groups clamping down on female independence. Among these, a professor from the city's law school was shot and beheaded, a vet was killed on her way to work, and a pharmacist from the Alkhansah hospital was shot dead on her doorstep."
Women in Iraq have lost their freedom.