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The second trial of U.S. citizen Nicholas Slatten, the former Blackwater (now Academi) employee who was found guilty in 2013 of first-degree murder in connection to the killing in 2007 of fourteen unarmed civilians on Baghdad's Nisour Square and sentenced to life in prison, ends in a mistrial.
2018-09-6

A warehouse holding ballot boxes from elections last month burns down in Baghdad. Several politicians say the fire was a criminal act aimed at destabilising the state following a disputed election result.
2018-06-10

A car bomb explodes at a checkpoint north of Baghdad, killing at least seven people.
2016-07-13

Protesters demanding political reform leave Baghdad's Green Zone after camping for 24 hours in the heavily fortified government district. These activists, followers of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Muqtadā al-Ṣadr, support Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's anti-corruption proposals to replace party-affiliated ministers with technocrats. A grid-locked parliament has been unable to act on these changes.
2016-05-1

An Iraqi Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 jet, returning from a bombing raid against ISIL militants in the north, accidentally drops a bomb on Baghdad destroying several homes and killing at least 7 civilians. American officials claimed that as many as 65% of Iraqi air force bombers do not drop their bombs due to "lack of targets".
2015-07-6

15 Iranians and 3 Iraqis were killed in a pipeline attack in the north-east of Baghdad.
2013-12-13

Gunmen using silenced weapons attack at least nine alcohol stores in western Baghdad, killing twelve people.
2013-05-15

Iraq: At least 113 people are killed and almost 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Baghdad and five other provinces. The authorities believe al-Qaeda to be responsible. The deadliest explosion strikes an amusement park in the east of the capital, claiming 34 lives and injuring 54, most of them women and children.
2012-08-16

Iraq holds funerals for those killed in yesterday's series of bombings in Baghdad.
2010-04-24

Biden says the U.S. government will appeal in the Blackwater Baghdad shootings case.
2010-01-23