# baghdad - Monday 19 July, 2021
# Attack
# Attack
The blast happened a day before the Eid al-Adha holiday.
# baghdad - Sunday 25 April, 2021
# Iraq
# Iraq
Flames spread quickly across multiple floors in the middle of the night.
# baghdad - Friday 3 January, 2020
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
The killing of Iran’s top general could draw forceful Iranian retaliation against American interests in the Middle East.
# Qasem Soleimani
# Qasem Soleimani
The Pentagon described the operation as a “decisive defensive action”.
# baghdad - Tuesday 31 December, 2019
# Iraq
# Iraq
US security forces inside the compound fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowds.
# baghdad - Saturday 26 October, 2019
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
Nearly 200 people have died and thousands have been wounded since the rallies first began earlier this mont.
# baghdad - Thursday 3 October, 2019
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
Protesters have been angered by corruption and unemployment.
# baghdad - Monday 15 January, 2018
# Iraq
# Iraq
This has been the second attack on the capital in three days.
# baghdad - Monday 16 October, 2017
# Kirkuk
# Kirkuk
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State has urged the two sides to focus on fighting the extremists.
# baghdad - Thursday 16 February, 2017
# Terror Attacks
# Terror Attacks
A Pakistani shrine was targeted, and a car bomb exploded in Baghdad today.
# baghdad - Monday 2 January, 2017
# Sadr City
# Sadr City
Many of the victims were labourers waiting for work.
# baghdad - Wednesday 10 August, 2016
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
Electrical fires are common in the Iraqi capital and elsewhere across the country because of shoddy maintenance and poor wiring.
# baghdad - Wednesday 6 July, 2016
# Isis
# Isis
An Isis suicide bomber detonated a lorry packed with explosives in the predominantly-Shia Karrada district of the Iraqi capital during preparations for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr
# baghdad - Sunday 3 July, 2016
# Explosions
# Explosions
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted online.
# baghdad - Sunday 1 May, 2016
# Fortress
# Fortress
More than 55 people have also died in a number of bomb blasts.
# baghdad - Friday 25 March, 2016
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
# baghdad - Monday 18 January, 2016
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
The individuals were taken from an interpreter’s home in Baghdad .
# baghdad - Saturday 26 September, 2015
# Deadly Stampede
# Deadly Stampede
Over 3,980 people have died in tragedies in the hajj since 1975.
# baghdad - Sunday 19 July, 2015
# War
# War
A policeman said they were “so sophisticated that they destroyed everything”.
# baghdad - Tuesday 16 September, 2014
# Air Strike
# Air Strike
Last week Obama ordered a “relentless” war against the Islamic State.
# baghdad - Monday 15 September, 2014
# Military Assistance
# Military Assistance
30 diplomats met today in Paris on the issue.
# baghdad - Monday 11 August, 2014
# Nuri Al-Maliki
# Nuri Al-Maliki
It comes as the country’s prime minister said he would sue the president in a desperate bid to cling to his job.
# baghdad - Tuesday 22 July, 2014
# Police Checkpoint
# Police Checkpoint
At least five of the those killed were policemen, as were eight of those wounded.
# baghdad - Wednesday 9 July, 2014
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
Separately today, the Iraqi prime minister has accused the Kurdish government of protecting militants.
# baghdad - Saturday 28 June, 2014
# Iraq
# Iraq
The US says that drones are purely to protect their military advisers.
# baghdad - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
# Tensions
# Tensions
There is an increasingly urgent diplomatic push to stop Iraq from tearing apart.
# baghdad - Monday 23 June, 2014
# Insurgency
# Insurgency
The US Secretary of State John Kerry made the remarks today during a visit Baghdad ’s Green Zone.
# baghdad - Sunday 22 June, 2014
# Isis
# Isis
The seizure of Al-Qaim leaves just one of three official border crossings with Syria in the hands of the central government.
# baghdad - Thursday 19 June, 2014
# Action
# Action
He said that the US would be prepared to take targeted and precise military action.
# Iraq
# Iraq
President Obama has vowed not to approve “boots on the ground” in Iraq — three years after a large American force withdrew.
# baghdad - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
# Deployed
# Deployed
The agency warns that with the ongoing civil war in Syria, aid workers will be stretched.
# baghdad - Saturday 14 June, 2014
# Insurgency
# Insurgency
The offer came as Iraqi commanders said the army had recaptured two towns north of Baghdad as they prepared a fightback.
# baghdad - Friday 13 June, 2014
# Crisis
# Crisis
President Barack Obama’s comments come after the cities of Mosul and Tikrit fell to insurgents during lightning advances.
# baghdad - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# Mosul
# Mosul
The militant groups have launched a series of major operations in Iraq in recent days, killing scores of people and highlighting the weakness of the country’s security forces.
# baghdad - Sunday 8 June, 2014
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
The country is experiencing its worst violence in years.
# baghdad - Sunday 9 March, 2014
# Sitdown Sunday
# Sitdown Sunday
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# baghdad - Monday 10 February, 2014
# Baghdad
# Baghdad
Seven car bombs as well as several explosive belts were found the area.
# baghdad - Sunday 5 January, 2014
# Iraq
# Iraq
Iraq lost control of Fallujah to Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, a city where US forces repeatedly battled insurgents.
# baghdad - Wednesday 1 January, 2014
# 2013
# 2013
Iraq Body Count, an NGO, said that around two-thirds of deaths occurred in the second half of 2013.
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