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The website of Israel's "Jerusalem Post" newspaper is hacked by suspected Iranian hackers. The website's content was replaced with a threat targeting the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center and an apparent reference to Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated exactly two years earlier in Baghdad, Iraq.
2022-01-3

A suicide attack at an open market in Baghdad, Iraq, kills at least 32 people and injures 110 others. Attacks have been rare in the country since the 2017 military defeat of ISIL, making this incident one of the deadliest since then.
2021-01-21

Four Iraqi soldiers are wounded when mortar shells strike Balad Air Base, 40 mi north of Baghdad, which houses U.S. military personnel. The mortars struck the runway inside the base.
2020-01-12

Tens of thousands of people, mostly Shi'ites, take to the streets of Baghdad, Iraq in a protest calling for Parliament to vote on a cabinet reshuffle. The protest was called for by powerful Shi'te Muslim critic Muqtada al-Sadr. The proposed cabinet reshuffle is aimed at fighting corruption in the midst of divisions between lawmakers that have hampered the work of the government.
2016-04-26

Iraqi security forces find the bodies of 53 men shot recently in Hamza south of Baghdad.
2014-07-9

A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an oil tanker truck, killing 15 people in Baghdad, Iraq.
2013-11-6

Eleven people are killed in further unrest in Iraq, including eight people in a bombing of a Baghdad marketplace.
2012-07-4

A series of bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad kills 14 people.
2012-05-31

At least 5 police officers are shot dead at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq.
2010-08-3

A female suicide bomber kills 41 people and injures a further 106 in an attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
2010-02-1