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
Thousands of Iraqis take to the streets in Baghdad and major southern cities, including Basra and Najaf, to both mark the anniversary of the protests and renew calls to end corruption. Security forces in central Baghdad threw tear gas to prevent marchers from crossing strategic bridges, injuring at least six, and around 43 officers were injured after protesters threw Molotov cocktails at them. 2020-10-25
In one of the deadliest days of the protests so far, Iraqi security forces open fire and kill 25 people who were blocking a bridge in Nasiriyah, while 10 people are killed in Najaf, and four people are shot dead in the capital Baghdad. The Iraqi Armed Forces says an emergency unit had been created to "impose security and restore order" in response to the violence. 45 people have been killed by security forces in total. 2019-11-28
At least 69 people are killed and 230 injured in a series of bomb attacks targeting Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, Iraq. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claims responsibility for some of the attacks. 2016-05-17
Multiple bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill at least nineteen people and wound another thirty-six. 2015-03-23
Sunni militants and the Iraqi Army clash west of Baghdad, Iraq leaving 4 children dead. 2014-08-14
A rocket kills six people and injures over 50 others at Camp Liberty, an Iraqi facility near Baghdad that shelters members of People's Mujahedin of Iran. 2013-02-9
At least 16 people are killed by twin bomb blasts in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. 2011-10-13
A series of bomb attacks around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad kills at least 18 people, including 7 policemen. 2011-05-22
Car bombs injure at least 37 people in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk. 2010-11-6