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January 8: A suicide truck bomber attacked a checkpoint in
Ramadi killing two policemen.[1]
January 10: Two suicide bombers attacked separately in Tal Afar
killing five people and wounding 15 others.[2]
January 15: A suicide bomber attacked an office of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul killing 5 people and wounding
28.[3]
January 16: Mustansiriya University
bombings: A double car bombing, including one suicide attack,
killed 70 people and wounded 180 at the Mustansiriya University in
Baghdad.[4] Shortly
after a bomb exploded in a Baghdad motorcycle market a suicide
bomber attacked the police and first responders who had arrived at
the scene, killing 13 people.[5]
January 17: A suicide car bomb struck a market in Sadr City,
killing 17 people.[6] A
suicide bomber attacked near a police headquarters in Kirkuk
killing 10 people.[7] Police
shot and killed a suicide bomber after he attempted to attack a
police checkpoint in Ramadi.[8]
January 18: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul
killing one civilian and wounding six people, including four
policemen.[9]
January 21: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol in
Mosul killing one woman.[10]
January 22: Bab al-Sharqi market
bombings: A parked car bomb followed immediately by a suicide
car bomber struck a predominantly Shiite commercial area in the Bab
al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, killing 88 people.[11][12]
January 23: A suicide car bomber attacked the Kurdistan Youth
Federation, an affiliate of the KDP, in Mosul killing wounding nine
people.[13]
January 24: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in
Baghdad killing four policemen.[14]
January 25: A suicide car bomber killed 26 people and wounded
55 at a busy intersection in the Karrada district of Baghdad.[15]
January 26: A suicide bomber attacked a Shi'ite mosque near
Mosul killing one person. A suicide bomber attacked an army patrol
in Baghdad killing two soldiers.[16]
Police killed a suicide car bomber as tried to attack their
checkpoint in Ramadi.[17]
January 27: 13 people were killed in a double suicide bombing
in Baghdad.[18] A
suicide car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Kirkuk killing
the vehicle driver and passenger.[19]
January 28: In the first attack of its kind, a suicide bomber
targeted an Emergency Response Unit in Ramadi with a chlorine-laden
truck bomb. 16 People were killed in the blast, but the chlorine
did not appear to injure anyone.[20] A
suicide bomber blew himself up in Kirkuk, killing eight people.[21]
January 29: A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint
in the Hurriyah district of Baghdad killing 4 people and wounding
5.[22]
January 30: A suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded 57 in
an attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Balad Ruz.[23] A
suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint protecting religious pilgrims
commemorating the Ashura holiday in Hafriya killing two people.[22]
February 1: Six people were killed and 12 wounded when a
suicide bomber blew himself up in a minibus in the central Baghdad
district of Karrada.[24] Two
suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded outdoor market in
Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 73 people.[25]
February 3: Sadriyah market
bombing: A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle in Baghdad's
Sadriya market, killing 135 people and wounding 305, in the
deadliest single bombing since the 2003 US-led invasion.[26] A
suicide bomber inadvertently veered into & blew up an ambulance
in Mosul, killing a pregnant woman and wounding two others. Police
sources suggested his intended target was the Al Boursah
Market.[27]
February 8: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi police
checkpoint north of Haditha in Anbar province, killing seven
policemen and wounding three.[28]
February 10: A suicide car bomber killed five people and
wounded 10 near a queue outside a bakery in the mainly Shi'ite
district of Karrada. A suicide car bomber killed one Iraqi soldier
and wounded five people, including three civilians, as it targeted
an army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar.[29]
February 11: In Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, a
suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for
duty Sunday near Tikrit, collapsing the station and killing at
least 30 people and wounding 50.[30]
One policeman was wounded when a suicide bomber exploded near a
Shi'ite mosque in the Ilaam district in southern Baghdad.[31]
February 13: A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a Baghdad
college in the western district of Iskan, killing 18 people and
wounding 40.[32]
February 14: A suicide car bomber killed at least eight
policemen and wounded 20 others when he blew up his vehicle at the
entrance of a police station in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi,
police sources said. The officer in charge of the station, Colonel
Salam al-Dulaimi, died in the blast.[33]
February 17: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near
Kerbala wounding two policemen. A double suicide attack killed 10
people and wounded 83 in Kirkuk.[34]
February 19: At least one, and possibly as many as three
suicide car bombers attacked a US combat outpost north of Baghdad,
killing two American soldiers and wounding 29 others.[35][36][37] Two
suicide bombers killed 11 people, including five police officers,
when they attacked the house of a tribal leader in Ramadi.[38] A
chlorine-laden truck was detonated by a suicide bomber in Ramadi,
killing two Iraqi security forces.[39] A
suicide bomber attacked the house of the army chief in Dhuluiya,
killing five and wounding fifteen.[40]
February 20: Seven are killed by a suicide bomber during a
funeral in Baghdad.[41] A
suicide car bomber hit a vegetable market in a Shiite enclave of
the Sunni Dora district in southern Baghdad. At least five people
were killed and seven injured.[42]
February 21: In a suicide bombing in Najaf on a police
checkpoint 12 people, including seven policemen, where killed.[43]
February 24: A suicide truck bomber killed 52 people at a
mosque in Habbaniyah.[44] A
suicide car bomber killed one civilian in southern Baghdad.[45] A
suicide bomber attacked outside an SCIRI compound in Baghdad
killing three people, the compound was not his target.[46]
February 25: A suicide bomber attacked a college campus in
Baghdad killing 41 people, mostly students.[47]
February 26: A suicide bomber attacked a police station in
Ramadi killing 14 people.[48] A
suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near Kirkuk killing one Iraqi
soldier.[49]
February 27: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi police station
in Mosul killing 7 policemen and wounding 47 people, including 15
other policemen. A suicide bomber killed four people near
Mosul.[50]
February 28: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi police station
in Baghdad killing 2 policemen and wounding another 4.[51]
March 3: A suicide bomber killed 3 policemen and 9 civilians in
Ramadi.[52]
March 5: A suicide bomber killed 38 and wounded 105 people at a
Baghdad book market.[53]
March 6: Hillah bombings: Two suicide
vest bombers killed 120 people and wounded 190 when they targeted
Shi'ite pilgrims in Hillah.[54]
March 7: A suicide bomber kills 30 at a restaurant in Balad Ruz, in the Diyala province.[54]
A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in Baghdad killing 12
policemen and 10 civilians.[55]
March 8: A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol in Mosul,
killing four policemen.[56]
March 10: A suicide bomber targeting a military patrol in Sadr
city kills 18 people, including 6 soldiers, and wounds 48.[57]
March 11: A suicide car bomber rammed a truck carrying Shiite
pilgrims returning from a religious commemoration, killing 32
people. A suicide bomber attacked the offices of Iraq Islamic Party in Mosul, killing three
guards.[58] A
suicide bomber killed 10 people in an attack between Talbiya Bridge
and Mustansiriya Square.[59]
March 14: A man wearing an explosives belt strolled into an
outdoor market in Tuz
Khormato and blew himself up, killing 8 and wounding 25. A
suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint in the
Sunni neighborhood of Yarmouk, killing 2 civilians and wounding 4
others.[60]
March 15: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army and police
checkpoint in central Baghdad, killing eight policemen and soldiers
and wounding 25. A suicide bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint
killing one Iraqi soldier in the Yarmouk district in Baghdad.[61] A
suicide bomber struck in the Karada district in Baghdad killing two
civilians.[62] A
suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint under construction
west of Baquba wounding 10 Iraqi Army soldiers.[63] A
suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus killing four people in
Iskandariyah.[64]
March 16: Three suicide bombers driving chlorine-laden trucks
wounded 350 Iraqis in co-ordinated attacks across Al Anbar
province. The bombers struck in Ramadi, Amiriyah, and the Albu Issa
tribal region south of Fallujah.[65][66]
A suicide bomber wounded 11 people, including 4 policemen, in
Diyala province.[66][67]
A suicide bomber wounded 11 people, including 4 policemen, in
Diyala province.[67]
March 17: A suicide car bomb hit a checkpoint in Baghdad's
Harthiya district, killing three and wounding five.[68] Iraqi
soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army Division killed a suicide
bomber south of Shakarat. The bomber ignored several verbal
warnings to stop, and upon being shot his vest detonated.[69][70]
March 18: An insurgent car bomb was waved through a security
checkpoint in Azamiya, Northern Baghdad, after troops noticed two
children were sitting in the back seats. Using the children as a
decoy, the driver then gained permission to leave his vehicle
parked next to a crowded marketplace in the district. With both
minors still on board the car bomb detonated, killing them along
with at least three other people.[71]
March 19: A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in Baghdad
killing 6 people and wounding 32.[72]
March 20: A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army
checkpoint in the Jami'a district of Baghdad, killing one soldier
and wounding another.[73]
March 21: A suicide truck bomber killed five and wounded 40
when he attacked the headquarters of a Kurdish party, the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan, in Mosul.[74]
March 23: Deputy prime minister Salam Al-Zubaie was seriously
injured in a high profile assassination attempt by a suicide bomber
at a prayer hall in his own residential compound. Eight members of
his entourage were killed, and there were reports the bomber could
have been one of his own bodyguards.[75][76][77]
March 24: A suicide truck bombing destroyed a Baghdad police
station, killing 33 officers and wounding another 44 people.[78] In
Haswa, a suicide truck bomber killed 11 people and wounded 45 more
near a mosque. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a Tal Afar
marketplace, killing ten and wounding three people. A suicide
bomber attacked a US-Iraqi joint checkpoint in Ramadi wounding
three Iraqi soldiers.[79] Three
suicide bombers attacked a police station and two checkpoints near
Al Qaim on the Syrian border killing 17 policemen and 3
civilians.[80]
March 25: Two soldiers died after a suicide car bomber struck
an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baqouba.[81]
March 26: Near the Shorja marketplace in central Baghdad, a
suicide car bomber killed two people and injured five others.[82] Two
suicide truck bombers attacked a U.S. military outpost near
Fallujah wounding 8 American soldiers.[83]
March 27: Tal Afar bombing:
In the deadliest single blast of the four-year-old insurgency, 152
people were killed and 347 wounded when a suicide truck bomber
targeted a Shi'ite district of Tal Afar. 100 homes were destroyed
in the blast.[84][85]
Outside Ramadi, a suicide truck bomber attacked a roadside
restaurant where he killed 17 people and wounded 32 others. In an
internal conflict between insurgent groups a suicide bomber killed
a leader of an opposite group in the Abu Ghraib suburb of
Baghdad.[85][86]
Outside Ramadi, a suicide truck bomber attacked a roadside
restaurant where he killed 17 people and wounded 32 others. In an
internal conflict between insurgent groups a suicide bomber killed
a leader of an opposite group in the Abu Ghraib suburb of
Baghdad.[86]
In Ramadi, a suicide bomber killed one person and injured seven
others.[87] A
suicide bomber killed himself and two policemen in Baquba.[88]
March 28: Two suicide truck bombs, one of which contained
chlorine gas, detonated outside the Fallujah Government Center. The
initial blasts were followed by a sustained attack involving
gunfire and two suicide bombers on foot. In total 14 US personnel
and 57 Iraqi forces suffered injuries.[89][90]
A suicide car bomber drove into an Iraqi army post in Hay al-Jamiya
in Baghdad killing one soldier and wounding three others.[90][91] A
suicide bomber attacked a school used by U.S. forces in
Haditha.[92]
March 29: Al-Shaab market
bombings: A pair of suicide bombers on foot killed 82 people in
a market in Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood.[93] Three
suicide car bombers attacked a market in the town of Khalis,
killing 43-53 people.[94]
March 31: In Tuz Khormato, a suicide car bombing killed two
Shi’ite laborers and wounded 11 more.[95]
April 1: East of Mosul at an Army base in Sinaea, two suicide
truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 others.[96]
April 2: A suicide bomber attacked a police station in Kirkuk
killing 15 people, including one U.S.soldier. In Baghdad, a suicide
car bomber drove into a police checkpoint in the Doura neighborhood
where he killed two people and wounded five others. A suicide
bomber killed three people and wounded 20 near a popular Khalis
restaurant.[97]
April 5: A suicide truck bomber attacked a Baghdad satellite
television station run by Iraq's biggest Sunni political party,
killing one person and wounding three.
April 6: A suicide truck bomb containing chlorine detonated at
a police checkpoint in Ramadi, killing 27 people.[98] A
suicide car bomb with two attackers on board hit a checkpoint south
of Baghdad, but only the bombers were harmed.[99]
April 7: A suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint in
Samara killing five policemen.[100] A
suicide bomber in Baghdad killed one Iraqi soldier in an attack on
a checkpoint in Sadr city.[101]
April 8: A suicide bomber killed seven people in the Ilaam
district of Baghdad.[102]
April 10: A female suicide bomber on foot killed 17 recruits
and injured 33 others outside a police station in the majority
Sunni Muslim town of Muqdadiya.[103]
April 12: Parliament bombing: A
suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and exploded himself in a
cafeteria within the parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed
Awadh and wounding more than twenty other people.[104] A
suicide truck bomb killed 10 people when it detonated in the middle
of Baghdad's al-Sarafiya bridge, collapsing large
parts of the steel structure and sending cars plunging into the
river below.[105]
April 14: A suicide car bomber killed at least 44 people and
wounded 224 at a crowded bus station near a major Shi'ite shrine in
Kerbala. A suicide car bomber detonated his device near a
checkpoint at Baghdad's Jadriyah bridge, killing 10 people.[106][107]
A suicide car bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded four
others when he targeted a checkpoint in Baiji.[108]
Four would-be suicide attackers were killed in Kirkuk when one of
them detonated his explosives belt prematurely, said Police Brig.
Adil Zain-Alabideen. No civilians were hurt.[107][109]
April 15: A suicide bomber blew himself up on a small bus
killing six people and wounding 11 in a Shiite are of northwestern
Baghdad. In Mosul six people were killed in a double suicide car
bomb attack on an Iraqi army base. Four Iraqi soldiers were among
the dead.[107][110]
April 16: Nine people were killed and ten wounded when a
suicide car bomber targeted a police directorate in Ishaqi.[110]
April 17: A suicide bomber in a tanker targeted a police patrol
east of Mosul, killing one civilian and wounding four Iraqi
soldiers.[111]
April 18: Baghdad bombings: A
suicide bomber killed 41, including 5 policemen, and wounded 76 in
Sadr City.[112] A
suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Baghdad's Sadiyah
district killing two policemen and wounding eight. A suicide bomber
killed two policemen and wounded four people when he targeted a
police patrol near Baghdad.[113] A
suicide bomber injured seven people near Mosul.[114]
April 19: In Baghdad a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle
into a fuel tanker killing 12 and wounding 34 people.[115]
April 20: A suicide truck bomber killed a civilian and wounded
8 U.S. troops when he detonated his vehicle under a highway
overpass near Saqlawiya. A suicide truck bomber targeted a police
station near Falluja, killing two civilians and wounding 37.[116]
April 22: A double suicide attack on a police station in
Baghdad killed 12 people and wounded 95 others. Most of the dead
were civilians.[117]
April 23: Nine American soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in
a double suicide truck bombing at a military base in Diyala
province. The U.S. military claimed only one vehicle was involved,
but witnesses & Al Qaeda insisted two separate suicide truck
bombs had been used.[118][119] A
suicide belt bomber attacked a restaurant near the entrance to the
Green Zone, killing seven people and wounding 16.[118]
Three suicide car bombs hit a restaurant and two checkpoints in
Ramadi, killing between 20 and 29 people.[120] A
suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded 20 at a PDK office near
Mosul. A suicide car bomber killed 10 policemen, including the
chief of police, and wounded 23 more when he targeted a gathering
of senior police officials in Baquba.[121] A
suicide car bomber targeted Diyala Governorate's hall, killing 4
and injuring 25.[122]
April 24: A suicide truck bomb targeted a police patrol in the
Albufarraj area near Ramadi, killing 25 people and wounded 44.[123]
April 25: A suicide vest bomber attacked a police station in
Balad Ruz killing nine people, including at least four policemen,
and wounding 16 others.[124]
April 26: A suicide car bomber killed at least ten Iraqi
soldiers and wounded 15 other people at an Iraqi army checkpoint in
Khalis. Two suicide bombers detonated 50 yards from a PDK
office in Zumar near Mosul, killing three security guards.[125]
April 27: A suicide bomber attacked the home of the chief of
police in Hit, killing 10-15 people.[126] A
suicide bomber exploded himself near a checkpoint in Kisk north of
Kirkuk, killing four policemen.[127][128]
April 28: A suicide car bomber killed 60 people in Karbala when
he struck a checkpoint outside the al-Abbas shrine.[129] A
suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint in Khalis, killing
one Iraqi soldier and wounding three others.[128][130]
April 30: A suicide vest bomber targeted a Shi'ite funeral in
Khalis, killing at least 32 people.[131] A
suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle inside a subway tunnel
near Nisour square in Baghdad, killing two civilians and injuring
15. A suicide car bomb injured four people when it exploded in
Baghdad's Hay Al-Ja'mia neighborhood near the Mula Huaish
mosque.[132]
May 2: A suicide car bomber struck a police car near Al
Rafidein police station in Sadr city, killing between four and nine
people.[133][134]
May 4: A suicide car bomber targeted the national police HQ in
Baghdad's Doura neighbourhood, but it was not clear if any
casualties were caused.[135]
May 5: A suicide car bomber killed one person when he targeted
the Karkh police directorate in Baghdad's Yarmuk neighbourhood.[136][137] A
suicide vest bomber exploded himself amongst a queue of Iraqi army
recruits in Abu Ghraib, killing 15.[138]
McClatchy reported that that attack was caused by two suicide car
bombs, but all other news reports and also Al Qaeda's own
communique attributed it to a lone vest bomber.[136][139]
May 6: A suicide car bomb exploded near the police directorate
in Samarra, killing up to 12 police officers. CNN reported that two
US soldiers were also killed in the attack.[140][141]
May 7: Two suicide car bombers struck a market and a police
checkpoint near Ramadi, killing 13 people.[141]
A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint on the outskirts
of Baghdad, killing eight policemen and wounding 12.[142]
May 8: A suicide car bomber struck a market in the Shi'ite city
of Kufa, killing 16 people and wounding 70 others.[143] A
suicide vest bomber wearing a police uniform exploded himself
inside a police station in the town of Jalawla during morning roll
call, killing two to five police officers.[144][145]
May 9: A suicide truck bomb detonated outside the Interior
Ministry in Irbil, killing at least 19 people and wounding 80.[146]
May 11: A pair of suicide car bombers hit Iraqi police
checkpoints on two bridges crossing the Diyala River, a Tigris
tributary. The attacks on the southern edge of Baghdad in a Shi'ite
area killed 23 people, including 11 police officers, and badly
damaged one of the bridges.[147] A
third truck bomb struck a bridge near the town of Taji just north
of Baghdad, followed immediately by a car bomb which killed four
soldiers, but agencies did not report whether either of those
bombings were suicide attacks.[148][149]
May 12: According to McClatchy, police commandos manning a
checkpoint opened fire on a truck bomb as it was being driven up to
a petrol station in Baghdad's Al-Meda'en neighbourhood, causing it
to explode and kill just the driver.[150]
CNN, however, reported that the explosion killed two civilians and
was caused by a parked car bomb.[151]
May 13: 50 people were killed in a suicide truck bombing
targeting a KDP office in the town of Makhmoor in northern
Iraq.[152]
May 14: Two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a suicide car
bomber attacked a military checkpoint in Baghdad's Mansour
neighborhood.[153][154]
May 15: McClatchy reported that a suicide car bomb struck a
market in Abu Saida town, Diyala province, killing 12 and injuring
22.[155]
Reuters meanwhile put the death toll as high as 45 and reported
that the attack was a chlorine bombing, but made no reference to it
being a suicide attack.[156][157] A
suicide car bomber hit an Iraqi army checkpoint near Mosul,
wounding four soldiers.[158][159]
May 16: Heavy street fighting erupted in Mosul in which there
were up to 10 car bombs exploding, seven of which were suicide
bombings. 10 police officers, one soldier, one civilian and 15
insurgents were killed in the fighting.[160]
Seven tribesmen were killed during a suicide bombing at a
checkpoint near Fallujah.[161] A
soldier died in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in the Hadeed
area of west Baquba.[162]
May 18: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint in
Mussayab killing three people and wounding four, mostly policemen.
A suicide bomber killed three policemen and wounded two in Hilla. A
suicide bomber detonated his cargo near a U.S. convoy in
Fallujah.[163]
May 20: Two suicide bombers targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint
and military HQ in Baghdad, killing one soldier and one
civilian.[164] A
suicide truck bomber using chlorine gas attacked a police
checkpoint in Zangora district west of Ramadi, killing between two
and 11 people.[165][166][167]
May 21: A suicide car bomber rammed his cargo into a checkpoint
in Fallujah. No casualty figures were released.[168][169]
May 22: A 17 year old suicide vest bomber blew himself up in
the house of two brothers affiliated with the Anbar Salvation
Council. Ten people were killed, including the intended targets
Sheik Mohammed Ali & police Lt. Col. Abed Ali, as well as their
wives and children.[170][171] A
suicide car bomber targeted a police checkpoint on the Al Mikaneek
bridge in Baghdad's Doura district, killing one police officer and
wounding three other people.[172][173]
May 23: A suicide vest bomber killed 15-20 people in a cafe in
Mandali, a mainly Shiite Kurd town near the Iranian border. A
suicide bomber killed a policeman and wounded three others in the
Doura section of Baghdad.[170]
May 24: Reuters reported that a suicide car bomber targeted a
funeral procession in Falljuah, killing at least 28 people.[174] AP
attributed the explosion to a parked car bomb however.[175] A
suicide car bomber killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded three others
when he struck an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Baghdad. A
suicide vest bomber killed three civilians on a minibus in eastern
Baghdad.[176]
May 26: In Baghdad's Ghazaliya district, two people were killed
and 11 wounded during a suicide car bomb attack on a
checkpoint.[177]
May 28: A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a police
checkpoint, injuring three officers and a child.[178]
May 31: A suicide bomber killed 25 people, including 10
policemen, and wounded 30 more at a police recruitment center in
Fallujah. In Ramadi, a suicide truck bomber killed five people and
wounded 15 more. A suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military
checkpoint in Baghdad wounding 8 U.S. soldiers and 3 civilians.[179]
June 1: A suicide truck bomber attacked what is thought to be
an al-Qaeda safehouse; at least two insurgents were killed. A
suicide truck bomber attacked a police lieutenant colonel's home in
Shurkat killing 12 civilians.[180][181]
June 2: A suicide car bomber at a checkpoint in Shurqat killed
five Iraqis, including two soldiers and two policemen. A suicide
bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol in Babil province killing
one soldier. Another bomber was killed when his vest detonated
after the soldiers fired on him.[182][183]
June 3: A chlorine-laden car bomb - possibly driven by a
suicide attacker - targeted FOB Warhorse near Baquba. In the
aftermath of the attack at least 62 soldiers were sickened by
noxious gas, but no-one was seriously injured.[184] A
suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people and injured 30 others
when he targeted a police convoy in a busy market area in Balad
Ruz.[185]
June 4: Three Iraqi soldiers were killed yesterday when a
suicide car bomber attacked their checkpoint near Taji. Two guards
were wounded when a suicide truck bomber attacked the home of a
police brigadier; 11 people were also injured.[186]
June 5: A suicide car bomber killed 19 people and wounded 25 in
a Fallujah marketplace.[187] In
Baghdad, a female suicide bomber detonated prematurely after
security forces opened fire on her at an Interior Ministry police
recruitment center in the Sadr al-Qanat neighborhood. Three police
commandos were injured during the incident.[188][189]
June 7: Near the Syrian border at Rabea, a suicide bomber
killed 10 people, while wounding at least 30 Iraqis and five
British contractors. Six people were wounded during a botched
suicide truck attack at a police checkpoint near Ramadi; police
fired at the driver and blew the truck up before it reached its
destination.[190]
June 9: A suicide truck bomber killed 14 Iraqi soldiers and
wounded 30 more during an attack at a checkpoint near Hilla. In
Baquba, two suicide bombers at a police checkpoint killed one
officer.[191]
June 10: A suicide truck bomber killed 14 policemen and wounded
42 more at a police station in Tikrit.[192] A
suicide truck bomber destroyed a pillar of a bridge over the main
highway between Mahmudiya and Baghdad collapsing part of the bridge
and killing 3 U.S. soldiers and wounding 6 soldiers and an Iraqi
interpreter.[193]
South of Baquba, a suicide bomber killed two policemen and wounded
three others at a police station.[194]
June 12: A suicide car bomber in Ramadi killed three policemen
and wounded 15 others.[195]
June 13: In Ramadi, four policemen were killed an 11 wounded
during a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint outside town. A
suicide bomber in a Mandali police station killed three people,
including the police chief and wounded five others. A suicide
bomber was killed in Baquba before he could detonate his cargo.[196][197]
June 14: A gunman blew himself up in front of the Arabic
Advisory Council office in Diyala province. A suicide bomber killed
two policemen and injured five others in an attack in Fallujah.[198]
June 17: A suicide vest bomber killed at least four civilians
when he detonated himself amongst a crowd gathering to renew their
Falluja residency badges in Jbil district.[199]
Three policemen were killed and seven more were wounded during a
suicide car bombing in Baiji.[200]
June 18: A suicide truck bomber targeted Iraqi security troops
occupying the Al Mutawakil school in central Samara. Gunmen also
attacked the building as a diversion, and in total four soldiers
and one civilian were killed.[201]
June 19: Al-Khilani Mosque bombing: A suicide bomber
killed 87 people and wounded some 200 more when he rammed his truck
into the Khilani Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad.[202][203]
June 20: A suicide car bomber killed five policemen and wounded
13 other officers in Ramadi.[204]
June 21: A suicide truck bomber killed at least 20 people and
wounded 75 when he rammed his vehicle into the municipal
headquarters of Sulaiman Bek, about 90 km south of Kirkuk. A
suicide truck bomb detonated near a building housing police
commandos in Madaen 45 km south of Baghdad, killing three
policemen and wounding 12.[205]
June 22: Aswat Aliraq reported that a suicide bomber targeted a
police checkpoint in al-Baghdadi, killing 20 policemen and wounding
10.[206] A
suicide bomber killed two people and wounded four when he blew
himself up in a telecommunications office in Falluja.[207] A
suicide vest bomber attacked a police checkpoint at al-Somoud
bridge in western Fallujah, killing three policemen.[208]
June 23: A suicide vest bomber killed two policemen inside
Fallujah market after being confronted by them.[209] A
car bomb with two apparent suicide bombers on board targeted a U.S.
military patrol in Tikrit. The soldiers fired at the car, killing
both occupants and causing the vehicle to crash without its cargo
being detonated.[210]
June 25: A suicide vest bomber blew himself up in the lobby of
the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. Amongst
the dead were six tribal leaders, two of their bodyguards, and an
anchorman with Iraqiya state television. A suicide bomber in a fuel
tanker struck Baiji police headquarters in northern Iraq, killing
27 people including up to 17 policemen.[211] A
suicide car bomber targeted a government compound in Hilla, killing
at least eight people.[212][213]
Shortly after midday a suicide vest bomber detonated on a side-road
near Al Waziriyah fuel station in Baghdad. No casualties were
reported.[214] In
Siniyah, a suicide bomber killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded
three others at a checkpoint.[215]
June 27: A suicide car bomber killed one police commando and
wounded six others at a police checkpoint in al-Jaderiyia in
Baghdad.[216][217]
June 29: A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 11
when he targeted an Iraqi army position in the Tarmiya neighborhood
of Baghdad.[218] A
suicide truck bomber killed six Iraqi soldiers and wounded five at
an army post in Mishada.[219]
June 30: A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed up to
25 people when he blew himself up outside a police recruitment
centre in Muqdadiya, mostly policemen and volunteers.[220]
July 1: A suicide truck bomb hit a police checkpoint in
Fallujah, killing two policemen. In Ramadi a suicide car bomb
struck a police station or checkpoint, killing five policemen.[221][222] It
was also reported that a suicide truck bomb exploded north of
Ramadi on a bridge crossing the Euphrates, damaging the bridge and
injuring two civilians, though this and the other Ramadi attack
were likely one and the same.[223] A
suicide bomber killed one civilian and wounded four others when he
detonated his cargo during an approach to a police checkpoint near
al-Jadriya bridge in Baghdad.[224]
July 2: A suicide vest bomber targeted a Fallujah tribal
leader, Sheik Kamel Mohammed al-Essawi, killing four civilians and
wounding 10 others.[225][226]
July 4: A suicide car bomber killed 15 people at a checkpoint
near Ramadi. A suicide car bomber killed between three and seven
people when he targeted a police patrol outside a restaurant in
Baiji.[227][228][229] A
suicide car bomber killed two policemen and wounded seven others at
a police checkpoint in al-Salam district of Baghdad.[230][231] A
suicide bomber killed four police commandos and wounded eight more
in Doura district of Baghdad.[232]
July 5: A suicide car bomber struck the convoy of a wedding
party in Baghdad, killing 17 people.[233]
July 6: A suicide car bomb detonated outside a cafe in the
Shiite Kurdish village of Ahmad Maref near the Iranian border,
killing 26 people. A suicide vest bomber attacked a funeral tent in
the Shiite Kurdish village of Zargosh in Jalwla, killing 22.[234][235][236] A
Saudi man was detained while trying to carry out a suicide bomb
attack in a truck carrying canisters of chloride in Ramadi.[237]
July 7: Amirli bombing: Approximately 150
Iraqis were killed and 250 wounded when a suicide truck bomb
resembling an Iraqi military vehicle exploded in a busy market in
the village of Amirli near Tuz Khurmatu.[234][238]
Some reports put the death toll higher than 160, which would make
it the deadliest single insurgent bombing since the 2003
invasion.[239][240]
A suicide car bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and one other
person at an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Zayuna neighborhood of
southeastern Baghdad.[241][242] A
suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint in eastern Baghdad,
reportedly wounding 23 people, though it was unclear if this and
the Zayuna attack were one and the same.[243]
July 8: A suicide bomber attacked a truck carrying military
recruits south of Baghdad near Haswa, killing 23 recruits and
wounding 27 more.[244] A
suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol just west of
Baghdad, killing one American soldier and wounding three
others.[245] A
suicide bomber was killed along with three accomplices in Hilla
when their bomb exploded prematurely.[246]
July 9: A suicide car bomber killed three Iraqi soldiers and
four policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in the Doura district
of Baghdad.[247][248] An
unknown number of people were killed or wounded during a suicide
car bombing at funeral in the village of Zarghosh.[249]
July 10: A suicide bomber killed one police commando and
injured eight in an attack in Saidiya district of Baghdad.[250] A
suicide vest bomber on a bicycle detonated next to two police
vehicles in the Al Jumhuriyah area of central Fallujah, wounding
between one and three people.[251][252][253][254]
July 11: In the town of Garmah, two suicide vest bombers blew
themselves up amongst a crowd of the al-Jumailat tribe in the house
of Sheikh Meshhin al-Khalaf. Later, two more suicide vest bombers
mingled in with people evacuating the casualties before detonating
their explosives. In total some 21 people were killed and 50
wounded, many critically.[255] In
the Al Saidiyah neighborhood of Baghdad police manning a checkpoint
opened fire on an approaching car bomb, causing it to detonate and
killing the driver.[251]
July 12: Seven people were killed when a suicide vest bomber
targeted guests celebrating the wedding of an Iraqi policeman in
Tal Afar.[256][257] For
the second time in three days, a suicide vest bomber on a bicycle
wounded a policeman at a checkpoint in Falluja.[258] A
suicide bomber killed two people when he targeted a police
recruitment centre in Fallujah.[259]
July 14: A suicide bomber plowed his explosives-packed vehicle
into a line of cars queuing at a Baghdad gas station, killing seven
people.[260]
July 16: A double suicide car and truck bomb attack in Kirkuk
left at least 85 people dead. The targets were the headquarters of
the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the Haseer food market. In
Baghdad a suicide car bombing struck a police checkpoint on a road
leading to an Interior Ministry building, killing four policemen
and a civilian.[239][240][261]
July 17: A suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol in
Baghdad's Zayouna district killed between eight and 20 people.[262]
July 22: Two suicide bombers in a minivan struck a house in
Taji where Sunni tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda were meeting,
killing between three and five people.[263][264][265][266]
July 23:Seven policemen were killed when a female suicide
bomber detonated her explosives at a police checkpoint in
Ramadi.[267]
July 24: A suicide truck bomber struck a crowded market near a
children's hospital in Hilla, killing 26 people.[268][269][270]
July 25: Two suicide car bombers in Baghdad killed 50 Iraqi
soccer fans celebrating their national team's semi-final victory in
the Asian Cup. The first struck in Baghdad's Mansour district, and
the second hit an army checkpoint in the east of the city.[271][272][273]
July 26: A suicide vest bomber blew himself up at the gate of a
police station in the northern Tal Abta area, killing five
policemen and one civilian.[274][275]
July 30: A suicide truck bomb targeting a joint Iraqi army and
police checkpoint killed six security members near the town of
Balad.[276][277]
August 1: A suicide bomber killed 50 people after luring
motorists to an explosives-laden fuel truck near a petrol station
in Baghdad's Mansour district.[278] A
suicide car bomb killed 15-20 people near a popular ice cream shop
in the al-Hurriya Square of Baghdad's Karrada district.[279][280]
August 2: A suicide car bomber targeted recruits lining up
outside a police station in the northern town of Hibhib, killing 13
people.[281]
August 5: A suicide car bomb targeted a vehicle workshop at the
entrance to the town of Mahmudiya, killing two people and wounded
five.[282]
August 6: A suicide truck bomber killed at least 28 people
including 19 children in Tal Afar.[283][284]
August 7: A suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded
eight near a market in the village of Salih Al Khalaf, north of
Baghdad.[285] A
suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint near the Arab Shoka village
north of Baquba, killing one soldier.[286]
August 8: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a barber shop in
the Gatoon neighbourhood in Baquba, killing five people and
wounding eight.[287]
August 9: Police detained a suicide bomber about to detonate an
explosive vest in a crowded market in Ba'quba.[288]
August 10: In Kirkuk a suicide car bomber killed 11 people and
wounded 45 in an attack on a market.[289]
Four Peshmerga fighters were killed and 14 wounded when a suicide
car bomber struck their convoy in Ein Zala village north of
Mosul.[290]
August 14: Qahtaniya
bombings: Four suicide vehicle bombers massacred hundreds of
members of northern Iraq's Yazidi sect in the deadliest post-war
attack to date. The final death toll given by the Iraqi government
was 411, but the Iraqi Red Crescent reported that over 500 people
had been killed and 1500 wounded.[291][292][293] A
suicide truck bomber struck the Thiraa Dijla Bridge near Taji,
killing ten people and sending three civilian vehicles plunging
into the river below.[294][295][296]
August 15: A suicide car bomber killed between two and five
people when he targeted a senior judge in Hilla.[297] A
suicide car bomb struck a police patrol in Mosul, killing one
officer.[298] Two
suicide bombers were killed in heavy fighting in Buhriz, near
Baquba, when their vests detonated prematurely. In total the battle
killed 21 insurgents and six civilians.[299]
August 21: A suicide vest bomber wounded eight people when he
targeted a queue outside a police station in Fallujah. In
al-Arafiya, a man died preventing a suicide bomber from reaching a
meeting between US soldiers and members of a civilian defence
force.[300][301]
August 22: A suicide fuel tanker bombing killed 27 people at a
Baiji police station. Officials initially put the death toll at 45,
but later revised that figure down.[302][303]
Ten people were killed when a suicide motorcycle bomber struck a
police patrol in a Muqdadiyah marketplace.[303]
Two suicide car bombers killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded 11
US soldiers in an attack on a joint US-Iraqi outpost in Taji.[304][305]
August 23: A suicide bomber was killed by police when he
targeted a checkpoint in Fallujah's Dam street. Two people were
wounded.[306]
August 26: The Iraqi army foiled three suicide truck bomb
attacks in Mosul, resulting in the death of one of the bombers and
the detention of the other two.[307][308]
August 27: A suicide vest bomber in Fallujah killed 12 people
at the al-Raqeeb Mosque after evening prayers.[309][310]
August 28: Police reportedly killed a gunman wearing a suicide
vest in Mosul.[311][312]
August 31: A suicide car bomber killed four police commandos
and wounded seven when he targeted their patrol in al Jallam
village near Samarra.[313][314]
September 1: A suicide car bomber wounded six people when he
targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Mosul.[315]
September 2: A suicide car bomber killed two soldiers and
injured eight when he targeted the first gate of an Iraqi Army base
in Taji.[316]
September 3: A suicide car bomb targeted a police checkpoint in
the al-Jazeera area near Ramadi, killing two policemen and wounding
13 other people. US forces killed five gunmen who had attacked a
police station in al-Saqlawiyah, including one who was wearing a
suicide vest.[317][318]
September 5: A suicide car bomb at a Mosul checkpoint killed
one policeman and wounded 28 other people.[319]
September 6: A suicide truck bomber attacked a Marine security
checkpoint in Al Anbar province killing 4 Marines.[320]
September 8: A suicide car bomb near a Sadr City police station
in Baghdad killed 15 and wounded 45 others.[321][322]
September 9: A suicide fuel tanker bombing hit an Iraqi army
checkpoint near a bridge in Balad, Salahuddin province. Four
soldiers were killed and 15 wounded.[323] Two
people were killed and six wounded when a suicide car bomber
targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in Mahmudiya.[324][325]
September 10: A suicide truck bomb killed at least ten people
and wounded 60 others in the village of Tal Marag, near Mosul, when
he targeted the offices of the Kurdish Democratic Party.[326][327] A
suicide bomber attacked a Saqlawiyah police checkpoint, killing two
policemen and two civilians and wounding two other policemen.[328]
September 14: A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint at
a restaurant in Baiji killing 11 people, including nine policemen,
and wounding 15 others.[329][330][331]
September 15: Ten people were killed and 15 injured when a
suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near a bakery in Baghdad's
southwestern Amil district as Muslims were preparing to break the
Ramadan fast.[332][333][334]
The Iraqi military detained a would-be suicide bomber in Mosul.[333][334][335]
September 16: A bomb - either attached to a suicide bomber or a
booby-trapped bicycle - killed six people at an outdoor cafe in the
northern town of Tuz Khurmato.[336][337]
September 18: A suicide bomber killed a civilian in the
Baladiyat neighborhood of Baghdad. A suicide bomber attacked a
mobile phone shop in Jalawlaa, killing four and wounded 15 others.
In Mosul Iraqi soldiers killed a suicide bomber before he attacked
their convoy but two soldiers were still wounded.[338] A
suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol in central Iraq
killing a U.S. civilian translator.[339]
September 22: In Hibhib a suicide bomber attacked an army
checkpoint wounding five people, including Iraqi soldiers.[340]
September 24: A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of local
leaders in Baquba, the chief of police was among the 28 dead and
another 50 were wounded, one other police official was killed and
two U.S. soldiers were among the wounded.[341] In
Abu Maria, a suicide truck bomber killed six people, including two
policemen and an Iraqi soldier, and wounded 17 others at a
checkpoint.[342]
September 25: A suicide car bomber in Basra killed three
policemen and wounded 20 during an attack on a police station. In
Mosul, a suicide bomber detonated his vest near a police colonel;
ten were wounded, including the police officer and a judge. A
suicide car bomber targeted the head of the Hawija City Council;
the chairman, two guards, and a civilian were wounded.[343]
September 26: A suicide bomber killed a civilian and wounded
another in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed three people and
wounded 50 in Mosul. Also, police killed a suicide bomber before he
could detonate his cargo. A suicide bomber in Fallujah caused no
casualties.[344]
September 29: A suicide bomber in Mosul killed five policemen
and one civilian and wounded 21.[345]
October 1: In Mosul a suicide car bomber killed a university
professor and wounded seven other people.[346]
October 2: In Khalis a suicide bomber attacked a police station
killing six people, including two policemen.[347]
October 4: A suicide bomber in Tal Afar killed three people and
wounded 57 at a marketplace.[348]
October 8: A suicide truck bomber destroyed a police station in
the village of Dijlah, north of Baghdad, killing 13 people,
including 3 policemen, and wounding 22 other people. A suicide
bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Tikrit killing 3 policemen
and 1 civilian and wounded 10 other people. A suicide bomber
wounded seven policemen in Khalis.[349] A
suicide bomber in the Arab Jabour area on Baghdads' southern
outskirts blew himself up to avoid captured killing one other
insurgent and wounding two U.S. special forces soldiers.[350]
October 9: 22 people were killed and 30 were wounded in an
attack by two suicide truck bombers in Baiji.[351]
October 10: A suicide bomber attacked the KDP headquarters in
Mosul killing seven people and wounding 20. A suicide bomber
attacked an army base in al-Zab killing one Iraqi soldier and
wounding seven others.[352]
October 11: A suicide bomber attacked a caffe in Baghdad
killing 8 people and wounding 25. A suicide bomber attacked the PUK
headquarters in Mosul wounding 8 people, including 4 PUK
guards.[353]
October 14: A suicide car bomber killed 18 people and wounded
37 in Samara in an attack near a mosque. A suicide bomber also
attacked a police commando station in Samara killing 4 police
commandos and wounding 9. In the village of Baghdadi near Ramadi, a
suicide car bomber killed four members of a police major’s family
and wounded eight others.[354]
October 15: In Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed four people
and wounded 25 others. A suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint
of a U.S.-allied Iraqi militia in Balad killing 6 militamen and
wounding 8. A policeman and four members of his family were killed
when a suicide bomber drove into the policeman’s home in Heit.[355]
October 16: A suicide truck bomber killed 16 people and wounded
80 in an attack on a police station in Mosul.[356]
October 26: A suicide bomber killed a woman and wounded four
other people in an attack on the headquarters of the U.S.-allied
Iraqi militia, 1920s Revolution Brigades, in Muqdadiyah.