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Protesters storm and damage the office of the Saudi-owned MBC TV channel in Baghdad, Iraq, after the channel aired a programme which called Hamas and Hezbollah leaders "terrorists". The Iraq Communications and Media Commission later suspends MBC's operations in Iraq in response to the incident.
2024-10-19

Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly formally designates the United States Department of Defense as a "terrorist organization" in response to the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani in a targeted killing in Baghdad, Iraq. Under the newly adopted bill, all United States Armed Forces personnel and Pentagon employees are "considered terrorists."
2020-01-7

Tens of thousands of mourners, among them Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, attend a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, for those killed in a United States airstrike—among them Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Force and at least five others. The bodies are then brought to Karbala and Najaf, where Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the other Iraqis killed are to be buried.
2020-01-4

Flights from Iran to Najaf, Iraq, are diverted to Baghdad due to anti-government protests.
2018-07-15

A double suicide bombing kills at least 35 people and injures over 90 in Baghdad, Iraq.
2018-01-15

Iraqi officials declare a state of emergency for all of Baghdad after protesters loyal to popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed into Iraq’s parliament in the Green Zone.
2016-04-30

Multiple bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill at least nineteen people and wound another thirty-six.
2015-03-23

Several attacks, including a suicide bombing, kill at least 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, in a predominantly Shiite part of the capital.
2015-02-9

Seventeen people are killed when car bombs detonate and gunman attack people in Baghdad, Iraq.
2013-05-16

Three car bomb explosions in central Baghdad kill 36 people.
2010-01-25