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Four people are killed and others are reportedly trapped after a Shiite mosque collapsed during a landslide in Karbala, Iraq.
2022-08-20

Tens of thousands of mourners, among them Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, attend a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, for those killed in a United States airstrike—among them Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Force and at least five others. The bodies are then brought to Karbala and Najaf, where Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the other Iraqis killed are to be buried.
2020-01-4

A bomb explodes onboard a minibus at a security checkpoint near Karbala, Iraq, killing 12 civilians.
2019-09-20

Thirty-one pilgrims are killed and 100 others are injured in a stampede in the city of Karbala, Iraq, while marking Ashura.
2019-09-10

Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq, kill seven people.
2013-09-27

British businessman James McCormick, who sold ADE 651 fake bomb detector to Iraq and other countries, is jailed for ten years at the Old Bailey.
2013-05-2

Bombs in two majority Shia Muslim cities in southern Iraq, Hillah and Karbala, kill at least 30 people and wound more than 100.
2012-11-29

Bomb attacks in the Iraqi cities of Karbala, Najaf and Basra kill at least nineteen people and injure scores more.
2010-11-8

Two car bombs explode near the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least twenty people.
2010-07-26

Margaret Thatcher, in a rare moment of publicity since her withdrawal from public life, puts her weight and "heavy heart" behind a campaign by Combat Stress for the mental health of ex-servicemen in Afghanistan and Iraq.
2010-03-12