Aug 31 Hundreds of Iraqis Die in Stampede Near Shiite Shrine By PBS News Hour More than 650 and possibly as many as 1,000 people died Wednesday during a religious procession toward a Shiite shrine in Baghdad when rumors that a suicide bomber was about to attack caused a stampede on a bridge. Continue reading
Aug 17 Triple Bomb Blasts in Baghdad Kill At Least 43 By PBS News Hour Three car bombers struck near a bus station and hospital in Baghdad Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and wounding dozens in the worst attack in Iraq's capital in weeks, police said. Continue reading
Apr 14 Dual Car Bomb Blasts Kill At Least 18 in Baghdad By PBS News Hour Two car bombs detonated outside an Iraqi police ministry in Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 18 and wounding 36. Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for this latest in a recent upswing in attacks. Continue reading
Feb 28 Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 115 in Iraq By PBS News Hour A suicide car bomb ripped through a crowd of police and national guard recruits outside a medical clinic south of Baghdad Monday, killing at least 115 people and injuring more than 130 in the single deadliest attack in the two-year… Continue reading
Jan 19 Car Bombs Rock Baghdad Ahead of Elections By PBS News Hour A series of car bombings and shootings shook Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people as insurgents continued attacks ahead of national elections scheduled for Jan. 30. Continue reading
Dec 03 Nearly Simultaneous Attacks Kill At Least 30 in Baghdad By PBS News Hour Two insurgent attacks in Baghdad killed 30 people Friday, including at least 16 police officers. Continue reading
Nov 11 Violence Erupts in Mosul, Baghdad As Fallujah Assault Continues Backed by aircraft and artillery shelling, U.S. forces launched a major attack Thursday aimed at cordoning off Sunni fighters who have retreated into pockets in the southern part of the rebel-held city of Fallujah. Continue reading
Oct 14 Bombs Explode in Heavily Fortified Baghdad Compound Insurgents breached Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday and set off two hand-carried bombs in an outdoor market killing at least eight people and wounding 20. Continue reading
Oct 04 Three Car Bombings in Iraq Kill At Least 26 Three car bombs exploded in Iraq Monday, killing at least 26 people. The violence comes on the heels of a recent U.S. military push to control rebel strongholds ahead of January elections. Continue reading
Sep 30 Series of Bomb Attacks Kill Scores in Baghdad By PBS News Hour A succession of bombings that appeared to target U.S. and Iraqi forces in and around Baghdad Thursday killed more than 40 people, including dozens of children, and injured at least 180 more. Continue reading