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Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 have killed thousands of people, mostly Iraqi civilians, and arguably constitute a new phenomenon in the history of warfare. Suicide bombings have been used as a tactic in other armed struggles, but their frequency and lethality in Iraq is unprecedented.[1]

A 2005 Human Rights Watch report analysed the insurgency in Iraq and highlighted, "The groups that are most responsible for the abuse, namely al-Qaeda in Iraq, Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic Army in Iraq, have all targeted civilians for abductions and executions. The first two groups have repeatedly boasted about massive car bombs and suicide bombs in mosques, markets, bus stations and other civilian areas. Such acts are war crimes and in some cases may constitute crimes against humanity, which are defined as serious crimes committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population."[1]


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The growing number of suicide attacks, up to September 2005 ([2], page 80, Figure 5). (Some attacks involve multiple simultaneous bombings.)

  • March 2003 - July 2003: 2 attacks, 2 attackers
  • August 2003 - December 2003: 23, 27
  • January 2004 - May 2004: 29, 31
  • June 2004 - October 2004: 40, 44
  • November 2004 - March 2005: 73, 78
  • April 2005 - September 2005: 112, 170 (some data suggest more than 240 bombers were actually killed during this period [3][4])
  • October 2005: 51 [5]
  • November 2005: 23 [6]
  • December 2005: 3
  • January 2006: 12
  • March 2006: 5
  • April 2006: 6
  • May 2006: 6
  • June 2006: 5
  • July 2006: 6
  • August 2006: 7
  • September 2006: 4
  • October 2006: 17
  • November 2006: 15
  • December 2006: 22
  • January 2007 - March 2007: 102

  • March 29: Iraqi soldier Ali Hammadi al-Namani kills four US soldiers in a suicide car bombing near Najaf, the first such attack.[7]
  • April 3: A female suicide bomber kills three coalition soldiers at a checkpoint north-west of Baghdad. Her apparent accomplice, a pregnant woman who was also killed in the attack, exited the vehicle prior to the explosion and began screaming in fear. It is unclear if she was attempting to flee, or trying to draw the coalition troops towards her vehicle.[8]
  • April 10: A suicide bomber walked up to a military checkpoint in central Baghdad and blew himself up, wounding four U.S. Marines.[9]
  • August 29: One or two car bombs, possibly detonated by suicide bombers, explode outside the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf. Between 85 and 125 people are killed, including the leader of the nation's Shia community, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim.[10][11][12]
  • September 9: A suicide car bomber targets the US intelligence headquarters in the northern city of Irbil, killing three people and injuring 41.[13]
  • September 22: A suicide car bomber blows himself up near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people.[14]
  • October 13: A suicide car bombing near the Baghdad Hotel kills six Iraqis and injures 32 others, including three US soldiers. Some reports suggest two vehicles were involved.[15]
  • October 14: A suicide car bomb explodes outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, wounding two security guards.[16]
  • October 27: Four or five suicide car bombings rock Baghdad, killing 30-40 people including two US soldiers. The deadliest attack was on the HQ of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where a suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed 12 and wounded 20. The other attacks targeted Iraqi Police stations.[17][18]
  • November 12: A suicide car bombing in the southern town of Nasiriyah kills thirty one people. The target was an Italian military base, and nineteen of the dead are Italians.[19][20][21]
  • November 20: A suicide truck bomb explodes outside the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a US-allied Kurdish political party in Kirkuk. Four people are killed and thirty wounded.[22]
  • December 9: Suicide bombers, one in a car and another on foot, blow themselves up at the gates of two US military bases, wounding 61 American soldiers.[23]
  • December 10: Three suicide bombers attack the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division in Ramadi. One US soldier dies and 14 others are wounded.[24]
  • December 14: The day after Saddam Hussein is captured, a suspected suicide car bomber kills sixteen police officers and two civilians outside a police station in Khaldiya.[25][26]
  • December 24: A suicide bombing kills four and wounds over 100 at the Interior Ministry offices in Arbil.[27]
  • December 27: Five Bulgarian soldiers and two Thai soldiers are among 19 people killed and 18 injured in a coordinated attack on Coalition military bases in Karbala. Four suicide car bombers struck a Bulgarian base, a compound containing the City Hall & police headquarters, and a multinational logistics base run by Polish, Thai, and American soldiers.[28][29]
  • December 31: Eight people are killed and 24 wounded when an explosives-packed car rams into a popular Baghdad restaurant on New Year's Eve.[30]

  • January 14: A suicide bomber detonates a bomb outside an Iraqi police station in Baquba. At least three Iraqis are killed and 29 wounded.[31]
  • January 18: A suicide bomber blows up a Toyota pickup truck packed with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the headquarters of the US-led coalition, killing 24-31 people, including two American soldiers, and injuring more than 60.[32][33]
  • January 31: A suicide bomber in a small car kills nine and wounds 44 at a police station in Mosul.[34]
  • February 1: At least 105 people are killed and nearly 250 wounded in Arbil when twin suicide bombers blow themselves up at the headquarters of the two leading Kurdish political parties - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan & the Kurdish Democratic Party. A former government minister, the deputy governor of Arbil province, and the city's police chief are among those killed.[35]
  • February 10: At least 55 people are killed in car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad.[36]
  • February 11: Forty-seven Iraqis die in a suicide attack outside an army recruitment centre in Baghdad. Ansar al Islam is blamed for the atrocity.[37]
  • February 18: Two suicide bombers attack a Polish military barracks in Hillah, killing 11 Iraqis.[38]
  • February 23: Shortly before a visit by US defence secretary Donald Rumseld, at least ten people are killed by a suicide car bomber targeting a police station in Kirkuk.[39]
  • March 2: Ashoura Massacre: In the deadliest bombings since the fall of Saddam Hussein, six bombs in Baghdad and Karbala kill at least 181 Shiites celebrating the Ashura festival, including at least 49 Iranian pilgrims. The co-ordinated attacks involved a number of suicide bombings.[40]
  • March 17: A suicide bomber detonates a car bomb near the Hotel Lebanon in Baghdad, killing 16, including one Briton.[41]
  • April 21: Basra bombs: five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people including 18 schoolchildren and wounding 160 others.[42][43]
  • April 24: In one of the most extravagant insurgent attacks to date, three suicide boats targeted the al-Basra oil terminal seven miles off the southern coast of Iraq. Three US sailors were killed after they attempted to board one of the insurgent dhows, and oil exports from al-Basra were shut down for at least one day, costing Iraq one million barrels in lost exports.[44][45]
  • May 6: Six people, including one US soldier, were killed when a suicide car bomb exploded at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone.[46]
  • May 17: A suicide car bomber killed Izzadine Saleem, the head of the Iraqi Governing Council, as his car waited at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone in Baghdad. Up to seven other innocents were killed.[47]
  • June 8: A suicide car bomber hit a US outpost at the former al-Faris air force base in Baquba, killing four Iraqis and one US soldier, and injuring 16 Iraqis and ten US soldiers. In Mosul, an orange and white taxi with three suicide bombers on board detonated outside the mayor's office, killing ten people.[48] [49]
  • June 13: Four police officers and eight civilians were killed when a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle in southern Baghdad.[50]
  • June 14: A suicide bombing in Baghdad kills 13 people, including two Britons, a Filipino, a Frenchman, and an American.[51][52]
  • June 24: POSSIBLE SUICIDE ATTACKS ON THIS DAY
  • June 17: A suicide car bomber driving a white 4x4 detonated his vehicle amongst a crowd of 300 jobless young men queuing at the gates of an Iraqi army base in central Baghdad. 35 people were killed and 138 injured.[53]
  • July 6: Nine people are killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Khales, near Baquba.[54]
  • July 17: Five people were killed and eight other injured when a suicide car bomb rammed into a convoy carrying Iraqi Justice Minister, Malek Dohan Hassan, in Baghdad. Hassan managed to escape the attack, but three of his bodyguards and two civilian bystanders were killed.[55] UNCERTAINTY RE: NUMBER OF SUICIDE ATTACKS ON THIS DAY
  • July 20: A suicide truck bomb blew up outside a Baghdad police station, killing at least nine Iraqis and injuring more than 60 others.[56]
  • July 28: A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police recruiting centre in central Baquba today, killing 68 Iraqis.[57]
  • August 1: A suicide car bomb went off outside a police station in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 34.[58]
  • September 17: A suicide car bomb detonated near an Iraqi police checkpoint on al-Rashid Street in central Baghdad, killing at least eight Iraqis and wounding 41 others. Another vehicle-borne explosive device detonated on Haifa Street in Baghdad when US forces opened fire on it. The vehicle was attempting to breach a security perimeter, and both of its occupants were killed in the ensuing explosion.[59]
  • September 18: A suicide car bomb detonated in front of the Iraqi national guard headquarters in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 19 people and wounding 67 others, including guardsmen and recruits.[60]
  • September 22: At least 22 people were killed and 150 injured yesterday as two suicide car bombers wrought havoc in Baghdad. The first car bomb targeted a photocopy shop where Iraqi National Guard applicants were preparing their papers. In the second attack, in the upmarket Mansour district, four US soldiers and two civilians were injured when a car bomb was detonated near several US military vehicles.[61]
  • September 30: Up to two suicide bombers targeted US troops as they handed out sweets to Iraqi children in Baghdad, killing 42 and wounded 141. Of the dead 35 were children, while the wounded included 10 US soldiers & 72 children under the age of 14. Hours earlier a suicide blast killed one US soldier and two Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib area.[62]
  • October 3: Ten people were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed an entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad, close to where recruits were lining up to join Iraq's security forces. Seventy others were wounded. A car bomb in Mosul detonated with two people on board, killing the occupants and five others, though it was not clear if the attack was a deliberate suicide mission.[63]
  • October 6: A suicide car bomber killed at least 16 people at an Iraqi National Guard centre near the Syrian border.[64]
  • October 14: A pair of suicide bombers succeeded in penetrating the Green Zone in Baghdad. At least eight people, including three Americans, were killed in the attacks.[65][66]
  • October 17: A suicide car bomb detonated on a bridge in the northern city of Mosul, killing five Iraqis and wounding 15 others.[67] A suicide car bomb detonated outside a Baghdad cafe popular with Iraqi police and near to the Australian embassy, killing seven and wounding more than twenty.[68][69]
  • October 25: A suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy in Khaldiya, destroying at least two Humvees and causing an unknown number of US casualties.[70]
  • November 4: Three Scottish Black Watch soldiers and an Iraqi translator were killed by a suicide bomber near Camp Dogwood, outside of Baghdad.[71]
  • November 7: Two bomb disposal experts from the Royal Signals and Royal Logistics Corps were seriously injured by a suicide car bomb. The explosion blew the legs off one of the men and caused serious limb injuries to the other.[72]
  • December 4: A suicide bomber drove into a bus carrying Kurdish peshmerga fighters in the northern city of Mosul, killing 16. A suicide bomber targeted a police station just outside the main entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad, killing seven and injuring fifty.[73]
  • December 5: A suicide car bomber drove into a convoy of National Guardsmen in Baiji, killing the local commander, Mohammad Jassim Rumaied, along with three bodyguards.[74]
  • December 8: A suicide bomber attacked a US convoy in Samarra, killing three Iraqis.[75]
  • December 13: A suicide car bomber kills thirteen at an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone.[76]
  • December 14: A suicide car bomber strikes the same Green Zone checkpoint that was hit 24 hours earlier.[77]
  • December 19: A suicide bomber in Najaf kills at least 51 people when he plows his vehicle into a funeral procession just 300 yards from the Imam Ali shrine. At least 14 people are killed by a suicide car bomb in Kerbala.[78][79]
  • December 21: A suicide bomber infiltrated Mosul's Marez Base and detonated his vest amongst a crowd of soldiers sitting down for lunch. Twenty two people were killed, including eighteen Americans, in a significant coup for the insurgency. The Ansar al-Sunnah Army claimed responsibility.[80]

  • January 13: The Associated Press reports that of 181 car bombings since the creation of the Iraqi interim government at the end of June, 68 were suicide attacks.[81]
  • January 13: Four suicide bombers struck in Baghdad within a 90 minute period, killing at least 25 Iraqis. The targets included the Australian embassy, a hospital, Baghdad International Airport, and the Iraqi army base of Al-Muthana airport. None of the bombers penetrated the security checkpoints at their targets.[82]
  • February 7: A twin suicide car bomb attack targets a hospital and a command center in Mosul, killing at least 27.[83]
  • February 28: At least 120 people die when a suicide car bomber in Hilla explodes his vehicle amongst a crowd of people applying for jobs in Iraq's new security forces. 130 more are wounded in the deadliest single attack of the nearly 2-year-old insurgency.[84][85]
  • March 11: A suicide bomber attacked a funeral being held at a Shiite mosque in Mosul, killing 47 people and injuring more than 100.[86]
  • May 7 : Baghdad, Tahir Square 22 people killed by VBIED including 2 Americans, Todd Venette and Brandon Thomas.
  • June 14: A suicide bomber targets a bank in Kirkuk, killing 23 people and wounding nearly 100. In Kan'an, thirty miles north of Baghdad, five Iraqi soldiers are killed and two wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint.[87]
  • June 26: Three suicide bombings hit Iraqi army & police posts in Mosul, killing 15 police officers and 18 civilians.[88]
  • July 16: In Musayyib, a suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck in front of a Shiite mosque, killing over 90 and injuring 150.[89][90]
  • July 17: A suicide car bomber struck the offices of Iraq's electoral commission in eastern Baghdad, killing five election employees and one policeman. In another suicide attack, insurgents dumped two bodies on the road, then struck police who stopped to inspect them. About an hour later a suicide car bomber attacked a police convoy near a bus station in southern Baghdad, killing three police commandos and four civilians. Another suicide car bomber missed a US convoy but blasted two minibuses, killing six civilians in Mahmoudiya.[91][92]
  • July 29: A suicide bomber killed at least 26 people when he targeted an army recruiting center in the northern Iraqi town of Rubia.[93]
  • September 14: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of poor Shiite Muslim laborers waiting for work in Baghdad, killing at least 80 and injuring more than 150.[94] POSSIBLY MORE SUICIDE ATTACKS ON THIS DAY
  • October 11: Insurgent suicide bomb attacks leave over 30 people dead in Talafar, North West Iraq.[95]
  • October 12: At least 30 people die following an insurgent suicide bomb attack in Talafar, the second such attack in as many days. Three other suicide car bombs took place in Baghdad and Baqouba, including an assassination attempt on Iraq’s minister of provincial affairs, Saad Naif al-Hardan. In that attack, a bomber in Baghdad targeted a convoy of cars preparing to pick up the minister at his office, leaving five bodyguards and five bystanders wounded.[96] POSSIBLE FIFTH OTHER ATTACK ON THIS DAY
  • November 9: A failed car bombing of US troops killed a female suicide bomber and injured one soldier. The bomber was later identified as Muriel Degauque from Belgium, who had converted to Islam after marrying a Moroccan man.[[97]]
  • November 10: At least 30 people have died following an insurgent suicide bomb attack on a restaurant in Baghdad.[98]
  • November 18: Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts struck two Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin near the Iranian border, killing at least 74 people. Two suicide car bombs exploded outside an interior ministry building in the central Jadiriya district of Baghdad, killing six people.[99]
  • November 23: One suicide car bomber kills 18 people, mostly Iraqi police in an ambush in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.[100]
  • December 6: A pair of suicide bombers kill 40 and wound 70 in an attack on a police academy in eastern Baghdad. One of the suicide bombers detonated near a group of students outside a classroom, and then when the Iraqi police and students fled to a bunker for shelter, a second bomber detonated his vest.[102][103]
  • December 8: A suicide bomber detonated inside a passenger bus in southern Baghdad, killing 16 passengers and wounding 25.[104]

  • January 1: Two suicide car bombs kill one Iraqi soldier and wound 24 others north of Baghdad. [106]
  • January 2: A suicide bomber kills 7 people on a bus in Baquba. [107]
  • January 4: A suicide bomber struck a Shiite funeral, killing 32 and wounding 40.[108] Suicide bomber kills about 30 people and wounded dozens during a Shiite Muslim funeral at Miqdadiya.[109]
  • January 5: A suicide bomber in Kerbala detonated an explosive belt laced with ballbearings and a grenade, killing 51 and wounding 138. A suicide bomber in Ramadi blew himself up near a group of police and Army recruits, killed more than 60 and wounded around 70. Two other suicide car bombs explode in Baghdad. [110][111]
  • January 6: A suicide bomber targeted an Interior Ministry patrol, and one policeman was killed in the explosion which wounded 7 others. [112]
  • January 9: Two suicide bombers disguised as police infiltrated the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad and blow themselves up killing 29. [113]
  • January 23: A suicide bomber kills 3 people and injures 7 others near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad. [114]
  • March 27: A suicide bomber kills 30 to 40 people at a security-forces recruitment center in northern Iraq [116]
  • March 29: Two suicide bombers on a mini-bus filled with explosives attempted to attack a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad, but the bus exploded prematurely when police opened fire on it, wounding 11 policemen and a female bystander. [117]
  • March 30: A suicide car bomber rammed a police convoy in west Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighborhood, killing one police commando and wounding three others. Two civilians also were hurt.[118]
  • April 3: Ten die and 38 are wounded during a suicide truck bomb attack near a Shiite mosque in northeastern Baghdad [119]
  • April 7: Two or three suicide bombers target the Baratha mosque in Baghdad, killing 85 people and wounding 160. [120] [121][122]
  • April 11: A suicide bomber kills an American soldier in Raweh. [123]
  • April 17: A suicide car bombing in Ramadi wounds one U.S. Marine. [124]
  • May 2: Ten people die and six are injured when a suicide bomber explodes near a convoy carrying the governor of Anbar in central Ramadi. [125]
  • May 3: Suicide bomber kills 16 and wounds 25 at a police recruitment center in Falluja. [126]
  • May 6: Suicide bomber kills three Iraqi soldiers at a base in Tikrit. [127]
  • May 7: Suicide bomber kills five and wounds 18 in Karbala. [128]
  • May 9: A suicide car bombing kills 20 and wounds 37 in Tal Afar. [129]
  • May 21: A suicide bomber kills 13 and wounds 18 in a restaurant in central Baghdad. [130]
  • June 11: A suicide car bomb explodes at an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Baquba, killing three Iraqi soldiers and wounding six. CITATION NEEDED
  • June 16: A suicide bomber slips into a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 11 and wounding 25 during Friday prayers. [131]
  • June 20: A suicide bomber kills two and injures two in a senior citizens' home in Basra. [132]
  • June 26: Two Iraqi police commandos die and four people are injured when a suicide bomber explodes at a military checkpoint in western Baghdad. [133]
  • June 29: A suicide car bomber kills five and wounds at least 31 during a wake for an Iraqi soldier in Kirkuk. [134] [135]
  • July 11: More than 50 people were killed in Baghdad in violence that included a double suicide bombing near busy entrances to the fortified Green Zone.[136]
  • July 12: A suicide bomber blows himself up in a restaurant in southern Baghdad, killing seven and injuring 20. [137]
  • July 16: A suicide bomber strikes a cafe in Tuz Khurmatu, killing 23 to 26 people. [138][139]
  • July 18: A suicide car bomb kills 53 to 59 people and injures more than 100 at a market in Kufa. [140] [141]
  • July 23: 32 to 34 are killed and 65 to 70 are wounded when a suicide bomber driving a minibus blows it up near a market in Sadr City, Baghdad. [142] [143]
  • August 1: A suicide car bomber kills at least 10 people and wounds 22 near an Iraqi army convoy in central Baghdad. [144]
  • August 4: A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck blew up in an athletic field in Hadhar, killing 10 and wounding 12. [145] [146]
  • August 6: A suicide bomber attacks a funeral in central Tikrit, killing 15 people and injuring 17. [147] [148]
  • August 7: Nine soldiers die and 10 civilians are injured due to a suicide truck bomb in Samarra. [149]
  • August 10: A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint near a shrine in Najaf, killing 35 and injuring 122. [150] [151]
  • August 13: Insurgents used a rocket, a car bomb, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle and two other devices to attack the Zafaraniya neighbourhood of southeastern Baghdad over the course of an hour. 57 people were killed, and almost 150 wounded.[152]
  • August 28: In Baghdad, 13 people died when a suicide car bomber attacked a compound of the Iraqi interior ministry.In Baghdad, dozens of people were injured in the mid-morning blast outside the interior ministry. The ministry complex has been frequently targeted in the past and is heavily guarded. At least eight policemen are reported to be among the fatalities. The Baghdad bomber struck as UK Defence Minister Des Browne was in the capital for talks with Iraqi officials.[154]
  • September 7: A suicide bomber attacked a police fuel depot in Baghdad killing 12 policemen. A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol killing 3 people and wounded 10 in a tunnel in the Bab al-Sharji district of Baghdad.[155]
  • September 14: A suicide truck bomb hit a U.S. Army outpost in Baghdad killing three soldiers and wounding 25. A suicide bomber strapped himself with explosives and detonated them at an Iraq police checkpoint in Tal Afar, killing one police officer and wounding two others.[156]
  • October 4: A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi police and army checkpoint in the northern city of Tal Afar, wounding three policemen, two soldiers and nine civilians. A suicide truck bomber blew himself up outside the Iraqi army headquarters in western Ramadi, police said. No one other than the bomber was killed but a number were wounded.[157]
  • October 7: A suicide car bomb killed 14 people, including four soldiers, and wounded 13, including nine civilians, at an Iraqi Army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar.[158]
  • October 9: A suicide car bomber killed a policeman and wounded 11 others, a policeman and 10 civilians, at a police checkpoint in the northern town of Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad.[159]
  • October 17: A suicide car bomber targeting police commandos killed two police and wounded nine, including four civilians, in Baghdad's southern Saidiya district. A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing a soldier and wounding two others in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (180 miles) north of Baghdad.[160]
  • October 19: A suicide car bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four more some 35 km (22 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. Six suicide bombers in vehicles, including one in a fuel truck, attacked Iraqi police and U.S. patrols, and insurgents fired mortars and clashed with police, the violence killed at least 20 people in Mosul. A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 70 others in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.[161]
  • October 22: A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 20 on Palestine Street in central Baghdad.[162]
  • October 30: A suicide attacker blew himself up inside a police headquarters in Kirkuk, killing two policemen and a three-year-old girl and wounding 19, including 10 policemen. Police said the attacker was wearing a police officer uniform. A suicide car bomber hit an Iraqi army checkpoint at a border pass near Syria, killing four soldiers and wounding one.[163]
  • November 1: Two suicide car bomb attacks on police positions north of Ramadi killed five policemen and wounded three.[164]
  • November 7: A suicide bomber walked into a cafe in the Shi'ite Greyat district and blew himself up after dark, killing 17 people and wounding 20.[165]
  • November 10: A suicide car bomber hit an army checkpoint, killing a colonel and four soldiers, and wounding 17 people including 10 soldiers in Tal Afar, about 240 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad.[166]
  • November 11: A suicide car bomber attacked a police station, killing two people, including one woman, in the town of Zaghinya to the north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.[167]
  • November 12: A suicide bomber walked into a police recruiting centre in Baghdad and blew himself up, killing 35 people and wounding 58.[168]
  • November 18: A suicide car bomb at a police checkpoint in Haditha, west of Baghdad, killed one policeman and wounded another.[169]
  • November 19: A suicide car bomb near a funeral procession killed three people and wounded 22 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.[170]
  • November 20: A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near a police checkpoint and killed two people, including a policeman, and wounded six others, including four policemen, in Ramadi. A suicide car bomber rammed his car into a joint Iraqi police-army patrol and killed three soldiers and wounded four others, including a policeman, in a town west of Mosul.[171]
  • November 24: A double suicide attack killed 22 people and wounded 45 at a market in a Shi'ite district in the northern city of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border.[172]
  • November 29: A suicide car bomber targeting a police station killed one civilian and wounded 23 in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. A suicide car bomber targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded seven people, including three policemen, in southwestern Baghdad. A suicide car bomber exploded near a police patrol, killing a policeman and wounding five civilians in al-Nidhal street in central Baghdad.[173]
  • December 1: A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. patrol in Kirkuk killing two civilians.[174]
  • December 3: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul killing two people. A suicide bomber attacked the convoy of a police official near Kirkuk killing three policemen.[175]
  • December 6: A suicide bomber attacked a minibus in Baghdad killing three people.[176]
  • December 9: A suicide bomber killed 7 people in Karbala in an attack on a market.[177]
  • December 12: A suicide bomber struck a crowd of mostly poor Shiites in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding more than 200 after luring construction workers onto a pickup truck by offering them jobs as they were eating breakfast.[179] A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Baghdad killing one person.[180]
  • December 13: A double suicide attack on an Iraqi army base in Riyadh, near Kirkuk, killed 7 soldiers and wounded 15.[181]A double suicide attack on the headquarters of the Iraqi army's 2nd Battalion, near Kirkuk, killed 4 soldiers and wounded 10.[182]
  • December 20: A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Baghdad killing 11 people.[183]
  • December 21: A suicide bomber attacked a police recruitment centre in Baghdad killing 3 police officers and 12 recruits. A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint near Kirkuk killing one soldier. A suicide bomber killed two people in Baghdad.[184]
  • December 24: A suicide bomber walked into a police station in the Iraqi town of Muqdadiya in Diyala province and detonated his explosives, killing at least seven police officers and wounding 30 more.[185]
  • December 25: A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 20 others when he blew himself up aboard a crowded bus in the Shi'ite Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad. A suicide bomber targeting a police checkpoint near the main entrance of Anbar University killed three policemen and wounded two students in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad.[186]
  • December 28: A suicide bomber using a minibus attacked the offices of the KDP in Mosul, 2 people were killed and 19 were wounded.[187]
  • December 29: A suicide bomber a Shi'ite mosque in Khalis killing 10 people.[188]

  • January 08: A suicide truck bomber attacked a checkpoint in Ramadi killing two policemen.[190]
  • January 10: Two suicide bombers attacked separately in Tal Afar killing five people and wounding 15 others.[191]
  • January 15: A suicide bomber attacked an office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul killing 5 people and wounding 28.[192]
  • January 16: In a double car bombing, including one suicide bomber, on the Mustansiriya University in Baghdad 70 people were killed and 180 were wounded.[193]
  • January 17: A suicide car bomb struck a market in Sadr City, killing 17 people.[194] A suicide bomber attacked near a police headquarters in Kirkuk killing 10 people.[195]
  • January 18: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul killing one civilian and wounding six people, including four policemen.[196]
  • January 21: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol in Mosul killing one woman.[197]
  • January 24: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in Baghdad killing four policemen.[198]
  • 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.[199]
  • January 27: 13 people were killed in a double suicide bombing in Baghdad.[200]
  • 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. Though the makeshift chemical weapon was largely ineffective as a disperser of toxic gas, it marked a worrying new development in the tactics employed by Iraqi insurgents.[201] A suicide bomber blew himself up in Kirkuk, killing eight people.[202]
  • January 30: A suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded 57 in an attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Balad Ruz. [203]
  • 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. [204] Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded outdoor market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 45 people and wounding 150. [205]
  • February 3: A suicide bomber blew up his Mercedes truck in a Baghdad market, killing 137 people, in the deadliest single bombing since the US-led invasion of 2003. [206][207] 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. [208]
  • February 8: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint north of Haditha in Anbar province, killing seven policemen and wounding three. [209]
  • 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. [210]
  • 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. [211] One policeman was wounded when a suicide bomber exploded near a Shi'ite mosque in the Ilaam district in southern Baghdad. [212]
  • 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.[213]
  • 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.[214]
  • 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.[215]
  • 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.[216][217][218] Two suicide bombers killed 11 people, including five police officers, when they attacked the house of a tribal leader in Ramadi.[219] A chlorine-laden truck was detonated by a suicide bomber in Ramadi, killing two Iraqi security forces.[220] A suicide bomber attacked the house of the army chief in Dhuluiya, killing five and wounding fifteen.[221]
  • February 20: Seven are killed by a suicide bomber during a funeral in Baghdad.[222] 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.[223]
  • February 21: In a suicide bombing in Najaf on a police checkpoint 12 people, including 7 policemen, where killed.[224]
  • February 24: A suicide truck bomber killed 52 people at a mosque in Habbaniyah. [225]A suicide car bomber killed one civilian in southern Baghdad.[226] A suicide bomber attacked outside a SCIRI compound in Baghdad killing three people, the compound was not his target. [227]
  • February 25: A suicide bomber attacked a college campus in Baghdad killing 41 people, mostly students.[228]
  • February 26: A suicide bomber attacked a police station in Ramadi killing 14 people.[229] A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near Kirkuk killing one Iraqi soldier.[230]
  • 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.[231]
  • February 28: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi police station in Baghdad killing 2 policemen and wounding another 4.[232]
  • March 3: A suicide bomber killed 3 policemen and 9 civilians in Ramadi.[233]
  • March 5: A suicide bomber killed 38 and wounded 105 people at a Baghdad book market.[234]
  • March 6: A double suicide attack killed 120 people and wounded 190 in Hilla.[235]
  • March 7: A suicide bomber kills 30 at a restaurant in Balad Ruz, in the Diyala province. [236] A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in Baghdad killing 12 policemen and 10 civilians. [237]
  • March 8: A suicide bomber killed 4 policemen in Mosul. [238]
  • March 10: A suicide bomber targeting a military patrol in Sadr city kills 18 people, including 6 soldiers, and wounds 48. [239]
  • 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 3 guards. [240] A suicide bomber killed 10 people in an attack between Talbiya Bridge and Mustansiriya Square.[241]
  • 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. [242]
  • 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. [243] A suicide bomber struck in the Karada district in Baghdad killing two civilians. [244] A suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint under construction west of Baquba wounding 10 Iraqi Army soldiers. [245] A suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus killing six people in Iskandariyah. [246]
  • March 16: Three suicide bombers driving chlorine-laden trucks wounded hundreds of Iraqis in co-ordinated attacks across Al Anbar province. Fatality reports ranged from two to six. In the first attack, a driver exploded his pickup truck at a checkpoint northeast of Ramadi, wounding two. The second explosion was caused by a dump truck in Amiriyah south of Fallujah, resulting in the death of two policemen and leaving up to 100 residents displaying signs of chlorine exposure. In the the third bombing, a dump truck containing 200-gallons of chlorine exploded in the Albu Issa tribal region south of Fallujah, wounding 250.[247] A suicide bomber wounded 11 people, including 4 policemen, in Diyala province. [248]
  • March 17: A suicide car bomb hit a checkpoint in Baghdad's Harthiya district, killing three and wounding five.[249] 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.[250][251]
  • 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.[252]
  • March 20: A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Jami'a district of Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding another.[253]
  • 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.[254]
  • March 23: The deputy prime minister Salam Al-Zubaie was seriously injured in a mosque suicide bombing in Baghdad.[255]
  • March 24: A suicide truck bombing destroyed a police station killing 33 police officers and wounding another 44 people, including 20 policemen.[256] 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.[257] Three suicide bombers attacked a police station and two checkpoints near Al Qaim on the Sirian border killing 17 policemen and 3 civilians.[258]
  • March 25: A suicide car bomber killed two soldiers at a checkpoint in Diyala province.[259]
  • March 26: Near the Shorja marketplace in central Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed two people and injured five others. Police raided a home in Tal Afar where they shot a man wearing an explosive vest, which then detonated, killing the man and wounding another person.[260] Two suicide truck bombers attacked a U.S. military outpost near Fallujah wounding 8 American soldiers.[261]
  • March 27: 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 oposit group in the Abu Ghraib suburb of Baghdad.[262] In Ramadi, a suicide bomber killed one person and injured seven others.[263] A car bomber was shot and killed in Baghdad before he could detonate his payload. A suicide bomber killed himself and two policemen in Baquba. [264] Two truck bombs killed 85 people and wounded more than 180 in Tal Afar, at least one of the attacks involved a suicide bomber who lured the victims by offering to sell them vegetables.[265]
  • March 28: Two suicide truck bombers using chlorine gas attacked a U.S. military base in Fallujah killing 8 Iraqi policemen and wounding 20 Iraqis and several American soldiers.[266] A suicide car bomber drove into an Iraqi army post in Hay al-Jamiya in Baghdad killing one soldier and wounding three others.[267] A suicide bomber attacked a school used by U.S. forces in Haditha.[268]
  • March 29: Two suicide bombers killed 61 people and wounded about 40 in a Baghdad market. Three suicide bombers killed 43 people in Khalis in Diyala province.[269]

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