Sources: Reuters
Iraqi forces shoot down a drone that attempted to attack the United States' airbase near Baghdad. 2026-03-5
Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991. 2024-09-3
A criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to the Islamic State and for detaining Yazidi women in her house. 2024-07-10
Dozens of people storm the compound of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, after an Iraqi living in Sweden sets fire to a copy of the Quran. 2023-06-29
Four Iraqi soldiers are wounded when mortar shells strike Balad Air Base, 40 mi north of Baghdad, which houses U.S. military personnel. The mortars struck the runway inside the base. 2020-01-12
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
Iraqi authorities ban Qatar-based satellite television network Al Jazeera from broadcasting in the country and closes its offices in Baghdad, accusing it of violating government guidelines issued in 2014 to regulate media “during the war on terror". 2016-04-27
A suicide bomber attacks a cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 12 people and injuring another 38. 2014-03-20
A series of bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad kills 14 people. 2012-05-31
Two inspection teams from Iraq's ministry of human rights enter a "secret prison" in Baghdad where "serious legal violations" are said to have occurred. 2010-04-20