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The Mosque in 2006 after the first bombing. The Al-Askari Mosque was bombed twice, over two years. On February 22, 2006, at 6:55 a.m. local time (0355 UTC) explosions occurred at the mosque, effectively destroying its golden dome and severely damaging the mosque. Several men belonging to Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups affiliated with Al-Qaida ...
On 28 August 2011, an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq was launched at the Umm al-Qura Mosque in western Baghdad.A suicide bomber wearing a fake cast on his arm walked into the building and blew himself up inside the main hall, killing 32 people including parliamentarian Khalid al-Fahdawi. [1]
19 June 2007 al-Khilani Mosque bombing; 26 July 2007 Baghdad market bombing; 1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings; 2008. 1 February 2008 Baghdad bombings; 6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing; 17 June 2008 Baghdad bombing; 28 September 2008 Baghdad bombings; 2009. 8 March 2009 Baghdad police recruitment centre bombing; 6 April 2009 Baghdad bombings; 23 April ...
April 2010 Baghdad bombings; 27 May 2013 Baghdad bombings; January 2016 Baghdad–Miqdadiyah attacks; Buratha mosque bombing; K. 2016 Al-Kazimiyya Mosque bombing;
The January 2021 Baghdad bombings were a pair of terrorist attacks that occurred on 21 January 2021, carried out by two suicide bombers at an open-air market in central Baghdad, Iraq. [1] They killed at least 32 people and injured another 110. This was the Iraqi capital’s first terrorist attack since 2019. [2]
The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the Islamic State militant group’s ...
The explosion occurred just two days after a four-day curfew banning vehicle movement in the city was lifted after the al-Askari Mosque bombing (2007), [1] and just hours after 10,000 US troops began the Arrowhead Ripper offensive to the north of Baghdad. Because the site was a Shia mosque, the bombing is presumed to have been the work of ...
In early July 2010, a series of bombing attacks in Baghdad, Iraq killed at least 70 people while injuring 400 [1] [2] during a Shia pilgrimage to Al-Kazimiyya Mosque, the mausoleum of Musa al-Kadhim. [3] The bombings targeted those on the annual pilgrimage and took place from 6 to 8 July.