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A fire at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 82 people and injures more than 100 others.
2021-04-24

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

Multiple bombings in Baghdad kill six people and injure 15 others. Most are motorcycle bombs.
2019-11-26

At least three people are killed, and a further 17 wounded, when security forces fire at protestors trying to block a bridge in Baghdad. This is in spite of the government announcing the military was banned from using live rounds.
2019-11-6

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

Two ISIL suicide bombers attack a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 15 people.
2016-02-25

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the rapid progress of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant offensive towards Baghdad.
2014-06-12

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

A suicide bomber kills at least 19 officers and cadets and injures 26 outside an Iraqi police academy in northeastern Baghdad.
2012-02-19

A bomb planted inside a grocery store in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad kills three people and wounds 23.
2010-05-12