Sources: AP via NZ Stuff
Protests break out in Baghdad against Iranian involvement in the country following a series of missile and artillery strikes by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that killed dozens of civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan. 2022-10-1
A group of unknown assailants assassinate prominent Iraqi historian and government advisor Hisham al-Hashimi near his home in Zayouna, Baghdad. No group has claimed responsibility for his killing. 2020-07-6
Iraqi Army forces helped by U.S. airstrikes recapture the southwestern city of Ar-Rutbah from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group. The victory will allow for the re-opening of the Baghdad-Amman highway. 2016-05-20
A car bomb explodes in a mainly Shi'ite section of Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding 20. 2014-08-26
Sunni militants and the Iraqi Army clash west of Baghdad, Iraq leaving 4 children dead. 2014-08-14
A wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad kills 53 people. 2014-02-27
Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq, kill seven people. 2013-09-27
At least 51 people are killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings and attacks in and around Baghdad. 2013-08-28
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
At least 17 co-ordinated explosions across a widespread area of Baghdad kill 113 people and wound more than 271. 2010-11-3