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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

At least two people are killed and dozens injured after Iraqi security forces fire upon protesters at Sinak bridge in central Baghdad.
2020-01-17

Multiple bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill at least nineteen people and wound another thirty-six.
2015-03-23

A major Switzerland based commodities firm, Trafigura, played a "pivotal" role in the ability of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq to export oil, exports that the central government in Baghdad has prohibited.
2014-12-2

Attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni Arab areas of northern and western Iraq kill nine people.
2014-04-4

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

A fire at a prison in Baghdad, Iraq kills 8 and injures a further 31.
2011-09-19

In Baghdad, Iraq multiple suicide bombings go off during mid-day rush hour, killing 4 and injuring about 16, another strike at 7:15am hits a mini-bus heading from Sadr City into downtown Baghdad, killing 3 including a police officer, and 9 others are wounded. Also, three other bombs go off simultaneously in a business district killing 1 and injuring 7.
2010-08-15

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

The Iranian ambassador in Baghdad says the recent release of two Iranians from Iraqi custody is not an indication of any impeding deal to free three Americans held in Tehran on spying charges since their capture in July 2009 while hiking in northern Iraq's mountainous Kurdish region.
2010-06-1