Sources: CNN
More than 600 pilgrims in Baghdad, Iraq, are hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station. 2025-08-10
Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991. 2024-09-3
A U.S. drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq, kills four Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militants, including senior leader Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedi. 2024-01-4
A fire at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 82 people and injures more than 100 others. 2021-04-24
A Katyusha rocket falls in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, injuring a child and damaging a house. Iraqi security forces also thwart another rocket launched at Camp Taji, which houses U.S. troops. Also, a MIM-104 Patriot defense system shoots down a missile launched against the U.S. embassy. 2020-07-5
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
A twin suicide bombing attack at a police station in Baghdad kills five people. Yesterday 93 people had been killed and 165 injured in the deadliest day of attacks in Iraq this year. 2016-05-12
A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an oil tanker truck, killing 15 people in Baghdad, Iraq. 2013-11-6
A fire at a prison in Baghdad, Iraq kills 8 and injures a further 31. 2011-09-19
Three car bomb explosions in central Baghdad kill 36 people. 2010-01-25