List Of Terrorist Incidents In Iraq
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This is a list of terrorist incidents in Iraq from 2003 to the present.


Summary counts

Terror attacks in Iraq per year according to the Statista Research Department (2006–2020), Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service – CTS and US Department of State (2021, 2022):


Terrorist incidents in the 2020s


2023

See also: Attacks on US bases


2022


2021

See: Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2021


2020

See: Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2020


Terrorist incidents in the 2010s


2019


2018


2017

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2017 This article lists terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2017. January *January 1 A suicide bombing killed six policeman in Najaf. *January 2 An IS car bomb killed 24 people in the Sadr district of Baghdad. *January 8 Two suicide car bombs killed twent ...


2016

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2016 This article lists terrorist incidents in Iraq during 2016: January *January 11 - At least 50 people were killed in a spate of attacks in Baghdad. Islamic State, IS claimed responsibility. *January 27 - 2016 Ramadi bombing: Up to a dozen car bom ...


2015

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2015 This article lists terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2015. Bombings and other atrocities were a daily event, as the country was in a state of war. January * January 1: 15 members of the Jamilat tribe were executed after refusing to join ISIL. ...


2014

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2014 This list is limited to bombings and does not include other forms of attacks. January * January 2: A truck bomb killed 19 people in Baghdad. * January 5: 20 people were killed in a series of bombings targeting a Shiite suburb. *January 15: 75 p ...


2013

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2013 This list of terrorist incidents is limited to bombings and does not include other forms of attacks. January *January 3 A car bomb killed 20 Shiites and injured 50 others. *January 17 Bombs killed 21 people across Iraq. *January 22 Car bombs k ...


2012

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2012 This list is limited to bombings in Iraq and does not include other forms of attacks. January * January 14 A bombing targeting Shiites in southern Iraq killed more than 50 people. * January 27 A suicide bomber in Baghdad killed 33 people and w ...


2011


2010

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2010 This is a list of terrorist incidents in Iraq during 2010. Major attacks include a 1 February attack killing 54 in Baghdad, and a 10 May attack killed 45 at a fabrics factory in Hillah. January *January 7: A suicide bomber riding a bicycle tar ...


Terrorist incidents in the 2000s


2009

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2009 This article details major terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2009. In 2009, there were 257 suicide bombings in Iraq. On April 23, a suicide bombing to a restaurant in Miqdadiyah killed 57 people, while a separate bombing in southeastern Baghdad kill ...


2008

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2008 This article details major terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2008. In 2008, there were 257 suicide bombings in Iraq. On February 1, a pair of bombs detonated at a market in Baghdad, killing 99 people and injuring 200. Two other particularly deadly att ...


2007

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2007 This list details terrorist incidents occurring in Iraq in 2007. In 2007, the US sent 20,000 additional troops into combat as part of a troop surge. There were 442 bombings in 2007, the second-most in a single year during the Iraq War. Major eve ...


2006

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2006 2006 in Iraq marked the onset of a sectarian war in Iraq and remains the deadliest year of the Iraq War since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. January 2006 *January 1: Two suicide car bombs kill one Iraqi soldier and wound 24 others north of Bag ...


2005

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2005 2005 in Iraq was marked by the first elections held in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein. January *January 2: Suicide car bombers rammed a bus carrying Iraqi National Guardsmen outside a U.S. military base near Balad, 45 miles north ...


2004

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2004 2004 was most notably marked by a series of battles in Fallujah. See Fallujah during the Iraq War. January *January 14: A suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside an Iraqi police station in Baquba. At least three Iraqis are killed and 29 wounded. ...


2003

See:
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2003 In 2003, there were 30+ suicide bombings executed by 32 attackers. February *February 26: A suspected Ansar al-Islam member detonated a suicide vest at a checkpoint in Zamaqi, northern Iraq, killing four. March *March 13: A suspected Ansa ...


See also

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Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present) The Islamic State insurgency in Iraq is an ongoing low-intensity insurgency that began in 2017 after the Islamic State (IS) lost its territorial control in the War in Iraq, during which IS and allied White Flags fought the Iraqi military ( ...
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Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State The persecution of Christians by the Islamic State involves the systematic mass murder of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Nigeria controlled by the Islami ...
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Iraqi Turkmen genocide The Iraqi Turkmen genocide refers to the series of killings, rapes, executions, expulsions, and sexual slavery of Iraqi Turkmen in Islamic State- controlled territory. It began when IS captured Iraqi Turkmen lands in 2014 and it continued until I ...
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Persecution of Iraqi Turkmen in Ba'athist Iraq The Persecution of Iraqi Turkmen in Ba'athist Iraq refers to the persecution of Iraqi Turkmen by the government Ba'athist Iraq, specifically under Saddam Hussein. History The 1957 Iraqi census was recognized as the last reliable census before ...
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Human rights in Ba'athist Iraq Under the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Iraq's human rights record was considered one of the worst in the world. Secret police, state terrorism, torture, mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, rape, deportations, extrajudicial killings, forced ...
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Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory The condition of human rights in territory of the Islamic State, the territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS) is considered to be among the worst in the world. The Islamic State's policies included acts of genocide, torture and slavery. The ...
* Iraq War and the war on terror *
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Al-Qaeda in Iraq (; AQI), was a Salafi jihadism, Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. It was founded on 17 October 2004, and was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until its disbandment on 15 October 2006 after he was killed in a targ ...


References

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Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...