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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 ...
17 August 2005 Baghdad bombings: 43 Unknown [26] 18 November 2005 Khanaqin: 2005 Khanaqin bombings: 74 Unknown [27] 5 January 2006 Karbala and Ramadi: 5 January 2006 Iraq bombings: 140 Unknown [28] 22 February 2006 Samarra: 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing: 0 Unknown [29] 7 April 2006 Baghdad Buratha mosque bombing: 85 Unknown [30] 1 July 2006 Baghdad
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]
BAGHDAD (AP) — 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 ...
19 June 2007 al-Khilani Mosque bombing; 26 July 2007 Baghdad market bombing; 1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings; 2008. 1 February 2008 Baghdad bombings;
On 28 August 2011, the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber during Friday prayers, killing at least 28 people and injuring 30 more. An Iraqi member of parliament, Khalid al-Fahdawi, was among the dead. The attack came at the end of Ramadan and its motives was sectarian in nature. [8]
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 ...
Local media reported that the mosque’s imam was among those killed. The U.N. mission in Afghanistan condemned the attack, saying a child was among the victims.