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Two protesters in Baghdad are killed by Iraqi security forces when they are hit by teargas canisters in the head and on the neck; the forces also opened fire at demonstrators in Tahrir Square. The protesters were protesting power cuts in the midst of a heatwave. It was the first major spate of violence at the Square in months. Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi condemns the killings and orders an investigation.
2020-07-27

Amid further heavy clashes in Baghdad rockets hit the United States embassy injuring at least one.
2020-01-26

Iraqi forces capture the northern part of the ISIL held town of Hīt, west of Baghdad.
2016-04-3

Sunni militants and the Iraqi Army clash west of Baghdad, Iraq leaving 4 children dead.
2014-08-14

The United States evacuates personnel from its embassy in Baghdad as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant nears the city.
2014-06-15

Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq, kill seven people.
2013-09-27

25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by car bombs near markets in Baghdad in Iraq.
2013-08-6

At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded in bomb attacks at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and in the province of Diyala.
2013-04-12

The SITE Institute, a terrorist-monitoring organisation, states that the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the offices of Al-Arabiya Television in Baghdad that killed four people and injured at least 10.
2010-07-29

Iraq War: WikiLeaks releases a video from 2007 showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters news staff, by the U.S. military in Baghdad, Iraq.
2010-04-5