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Islamic State militants counter-attack in Iraq's Saladin province and seize locations west, north and south of Baiji, home to Iraq's largest oil refinery. In addition, the militants attack oilfields west of Tikrit, capture parts of the town of Seiniyah, portions of Mak'houl Mountain, and an abandoned fertilizer plant.
2015-11-22

Iraqi security forces find the bodies of 53 men shot recently in Hamza south of Baghdad.
2014-07-9

A wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad kills 53 people.
2014-02-27

A mortar attack kills four Iraq army officers and two soldiers in an army base west of Baghdad.
2013-12-23

Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons, as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America.
2013-06-1

At least five people are killed in separate incidents in Iraq including a suspected al-Qaida leader in Mosul.
2013-04-18

A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least nine people. Three people are killed in a separate shooting in Baghdad.
2013-04-1

Two car bombs explode in the city of Dujail, Iraq, leaving at least 7 dead and 25 wounded.
2013-01-17

In two bombing attacks in Iraq, 17 people are killed and 50 others wounded in a blast outside of the Presidential Palaces Mosque in central Tikrit, Iraq; and later by a suicide bomber in a Tikrit hospital treating the wounded from the first attack, killing six people and injuring ten at the hospital.
2011-06-3

At least six people are killed and seventeen others receive wounds after a car bomb explodes in Tikrit in Iraq.
2010-07-15