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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]
The Buratha mosque bombing was a triple suicide bombing that occurred on April 7, 2006, in Baghdad. The attack killed 85 people and wounded 160 others. The attack killed 85 people and wounded 160 others.
January 2021 Baghdad bombings; 2010 Baghdad church siege; ... 2016 Al-Kazimiyya Mosque bombing; S. February 2016 Sadr City bombings; January 2017 Sadr City bombings;
On 30 April 2016, a car exploded in southeastern Baghdad, targeting Shia pilgrims that were walking to the Al-Kazimiyya Mosque. It resulted in at least 38 deaths and 86 other wounded, according to local police officials. [2] Other government security officials suggested the target was an open-air market. [3]
The following is a list of alleged and confirmed attacks carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq organization between 2006 and 2012: . The 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings were a series of attacks that occurred when five car bombs exploded across Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, on 18 April 2007, killing nearly 200 people. [2]
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.
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 ...
Two days later (on Wednesday January 17, 2018) the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) "claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in Baghdad this week", though the New York Times suggested that the delay, and a number of errors in the claim, may show that the group's "media apparatus has been disrupted". [3]