On February 8, 2009 a roadside bomb exploded near a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 12
Tag: Iraq
On February 7, 2018 a female suicide terrorist was shot dead by Iraqi security forces before she could detonate her device
On January 22, 2007 a couple of car bombs at second-hand clothing market in Baghdad killed 88 people and wounded another 160.
Episode 120 – Counter terrorism at the ‘kinetic’ coalface
On December 27, 2003 unidentified ‘insurgents’ attacked military barracks in the Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 200.
On November 25, 1973 three members of the Arab Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a KLM flight over Iraqi airspace.
On November 23, 2006 a series of car bombings struck Sadr City, a Shia dominated slum in Baghdad, killing 202 people and wounding another 250.
On November 14, 2012 ISI planted three bombs simultaneously in Kirkuk, killing at least five people in one of several violent incidents on the Islamic new year
On November 8, 2016 ISIS massacred more than 300 people in the town of Hammam al Alil, just outside of the Iraqi city of Mosul
On October 27, 2003 Iraqis detonated car bombs outside the ICRC HQ and five police stations across Baghdad, killing 40 and wounding 200