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Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr set fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, in response to a planned Quran desecration demonstration in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish foreign ministry confirms the safety of its embassy staff while the Iraqi foreign ministry condemns the incident, initiating an investigation to identify those responsible.
2023-07-20

A court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences a former police officer to death for the murder of prominent academic Hisham al-Hashimi in July 2020, although the sentence can be appealed.
2023-05-7

A gas tanker explosion at an amateur football game in Baghdad, Iraq, kills nine people and wounds 10 others.
2022-10-29

Two separate car bombs kill at least 12 people in Iraq's capital, Baghdad. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the blast at the security checkpoint in a northern district that killed nine and injured 28 others. Three people are killed and 11 injured at the second bombing in southern Baghdad that targeted an army convoy; no group has claimed responsibility.
2016-04-23

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

A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an oil tanker truck, killing 15 people in Baghdad, Iraq.
2013-11-6

A bomb kills four people and wounds 16 in a park south of Baghdad, Iraq.
2013-08-10

The death toll from the suicide bombing of a cafe in the Diyala Governorate near Baghdad, Iraq reaches 22.
2010-10-29

At least three people are killed in an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq.
2010-10-27

At least 8 people are killed and 44 are wounded after a bomb attached to a fuel truck explodes in a Shiite section of Baghdad. [http:--www.cfnews13.com-article-news-ap-august-138406-Police:-Bomb-blows-up-fuel-truck-in-Baghdad (AP cia Central Florida News)]date=August 2019
2010-08-17