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Four people are killed and around 80 others are injured during a stampede at a stadium in Basra, Iraq. It is suspected that the incident occurred when some people tried to push their way into the stadium.
2023-01-19

Four civilians are killed and four more are injured in an ISIL motorcycle bombing near a hospital in Basra, Iraq.
2021-12-7

Health officials state that the Iraqi city of Basra has recorded 17,000 infection cases due to water contamination. A cholera outbreak is feared as salinity rates continue to increase in the unprocessed water.
2018-08-28

At least 33 people are killed in Kirkuk, Iraq, when a suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters and gunmen disguised as officers tried to storm the compound.
2013-02-3

The United Kingdom announces its intention to close its consulate in Basra, Iraq.
2012-10-16

A suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in western Anbar province kills several people.
2010-12-12

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

The death toll of Saturday's explosion in Basra, Iraq, rises to 43, with the number of injured people being over 100. Police say the explosion was as a result of a power generator short-circuiting but other sources claim it was due to a car bomb.
2010-08-8

A suicide bomber kills 43 people in Adhamiya in Iraq, many of whom were members of the Iraqi Army or a government-supported, Sunni, anti-al-Qaeda group called Sa hwa or Sons of Iraq.
2010-07-18

Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of suicide bombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal.
2010-05-10