Sources: Reuters
More than 600 pilgrims in Baghdad, Iraq, are hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station. 2025-08-10
Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991. 2024-09-3
In one of the deadliest days of the protests so far, Iraqi security forces open fire and kill 25 people who were blocking a bridge in Nasiriyah, while 10 people are killed in Najaf, and four people are shot dead in the capital Baghdad. The Iraqi Armed Forces says an emergency unit had been created to "impose security and restore order" in response to the violence. 45 people have been killed by security forces in total. 2019-11-28
A car bomb in Kirkuk, Iraq, kills and injures several civilians. The blast follows a bombing at Hor Rajab, Baghdad, earlier in the day that wounded one civilian. 2018-04-15
At least 51 people are reportedly killed in an attack on a shopping centre in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, and a car bombing outside an illegal casino in Miqdadiyah, east of Baghdad, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claiming responsibility for both attacks. 2016-01-11
Multiple bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill at least nineteen people and wound another thirty-six. 2015-03-23
Iraqi Christians defy persecution and celebrate Christmas in Baghdad. 2014-12-25
At least 35 people killed, 70 injured in bomb attacks in Baghdad and Anbar Province of Iraq. 2014-05-27
A bomb kills four people and wounds 16 in a park south of Baghdad, Iraq. 2013-08-10
An attack of rockets kills six US soldiers and wounds about a dozen others in Baghdad, Iraq. Two more bombs go off elsewhere but no deaths are reported. 2010-06-6