Sources: BBC
A USAF MQ-9 Reaper kills three Kata'ib Hezbollah militants in a precision airstrike using a Hellfire missile, including a high ranking commander, in Baghdad, Iraq. 2024-02-7
Four people are killed during clashes between rival Shia Muslim fighters in Basra, Iraq, three days after 30 supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr were killed during clashes in Baghdad. 2022-09-1
Pope Francis arrives in Baghdad in the first ever Papal visit to Iraq. 2021-03-5
Thousands of Iraqis demand American forces withdraw from the country during protests in Liberation Square, Baghdad, a year after an American drone strike killed Iran's general Qasem Soleimani and Iraq's militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The anniversary of their deaths in Baghdad was also marked in Iran as well as by supporters in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and other Middle East countries. 2021-01-3
Two separate car bombs kill at least 12 people in Iraq's capital, Baghdad. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the blast at the security checkpoint in a northern district that killed nine and injured 28 others. Three people are killed and 11 injured at the second bombing in southern Baghdad that targeted an army convoy; no group has claimed responsibility. 2016-04-23
Iraqi security forces find the bodies of 53 men shot recently in Hamza south of Baghdad. 2014-07-9
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
A car bomb explodes in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla, killing at least 21 police officers and injuring 65; in northern Iraq and in Baghdad, four people are killed in other attacks. 2011-05-5
At least three people are killed in an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq. 2010-10-27
Three car bombs hit the Egyptian, German and Iranian embassies in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in quick succession, killing at least 30 people. 2010-04-4