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

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

The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences nineteen Russian women, six Azerbaijani women, and four Tajikistani women to life in prison for membership to ISIL.
2018-04-29

A court convicts four former employees of Blackwater Worldwide on charges related to the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqis by firing machine guns in a Baghdad traffic circle.
2014-10-22

Attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni Arab areas of northern and western Iraq kill nine people.
2014-04-4

25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by car bombs near markets in Baghdad in Iraq.
2013-08-6

At least 72 people are killed and 169 wounded in a series of 16 bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, shortly after the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.
2011-12-22

5 Iraqi policemen are killed in an overnight shootout in western Baghdad, while 1 policeman is killed at a checkpoint outside Fallujah.
2010-08-7

Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad.
2010-06-13