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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]
April 2010 Baghdad bombings; 27 May 2013 Baghdad bombings; January 2016 Baghdad–Miqdadiyah attacks; Buratha mosque bombing; K. 2016 Al-Kazimiyya Mosque bombing;
2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing; 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings; 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 ...
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 pilgrimage to Al-Kazimiyya Mosque is of significance to Shia Muslims, as he was the seventh of 12 revered imams in Shia Islam. The pilgrimage was due to reach its climax on the night of the bombing and into the early hours of the next day. In 2005, 1,000 people were killed in a crowd crush on the way to this mausoleum during the same ...
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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 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 ...