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June 1, 2004: Kurdish political party targeted in Iraq bombing

On June 1, 2004 a car bomb tore through the Baghdad offices of the Kurdish political party PUK, killing 26 and wounding several others.

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May 15, 2013: Multiple bombings kill almost 500 people in Iraq

From May 15 to 20, 2013 a series of deadly bombings and shootings struck the central and northern parts of Iraq killing at least 449 people and injuring 732 others

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May 11, 2016: ISIS buries 45 people alive in Iraq

On May 11, 2016 ISIS buried 45 of its own terrorists alive because they fled the battlefield during a battle with the Syrian army

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April 13, 2016: Terrorist bomb fruit and vegetable market in Iraq

On this day in 2016, a bomb exploded near the Rasheed fruits and vegetables market in southern Baghdad killing one person and injuring five others. The attack was not claimed by any group in particular and the perpetrators remain unknown.

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March 31, 2004: Murders of US mercenaries in Iraq

On this day in 2004 four members of Blackwater were ambushed and killed in the Iraqi city of Fallujah and subsequently hanged.

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March 9, 2016: Young girl killed by ISIS chemical attack in Iraq

On this day in 2016 Islamic State (ISIS) carried out a mustard gas attack on the town of Taza in the northeastern part of Iraq.

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March 6, 2007: Sunni terrorists massacre Shiite pilgrims in Iraq

On this day in 2007 suicide bombers targeted Shiite pilgrims in the central Iraqi city of Hilla, killing 114 people and wounding 147 others.

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February 15, 2004: Terrorists attack alcohol vendors in Iraq

On this day in 2004 in Basra, Iraq masked men leaped out of two pickup trucks and unloaded their Kalashnikov rifles at a group of sidewalk alcohol vendors

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February 7, 1991: IRA mortar attack in London

On this day in 1991 the IRA launched mortars at the offices of UK Prime Minister John Major in 10 Downing Street

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Quick Hits 137 – When a government ‘delists’ a terrorist group, it shows how political the process really is

10 years ago, Canada dropped the Iranian group MEK from terror list.