Timeline: Attacks in Iraq

23 Jul 2012, 7:57 pm   -   Source: AFP
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The latest series of shootings and bombings in Baghdad and north of the capital has killed at least 91 people, the deadliest day in Iraq in more than two years.

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A series of shootings and bombings in Baghdad and north of the capital killled at least 91 people on Monday, the deadliest day in Iraq in more than two years.
  
Here is a list of the deadliest attacks and days of carnage in Iraq since May 10, 2010, when 110 people died.
  
US forces completed their withdrawal from the country in December 2011.
  
- July 23, 2012: A wave of bombings and gun attacks kills 91 people and leaves 172 wounded in 13 cities.
  
- July 3, 2012: At least 39 people die across the country, many of them in a truck bombing at a market in central Iraq.
  
- June 13, 2012: A wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings rock Iraq during a major Shiite religious commemoration, killing at least 72 people and wounding more than 250, many of them pilgrims.
  
- March 20, 2012: A wave of attacks in more than a dozen cities kills 50 people and wounds 255.
  
- February 23, 2012: A wave of attacks nationwide, blamed on Al-Qaeda, kills 42 people and wounds more than 250.
  
- January 14, 2012: A suicide bomber targeting Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of the southern port city of Basra kills 53 people and wounds more than 130.
  
- January 5, 2012: Attacks against Shiite Muslims in Baghdad and the south kill 68 people and wound more than 100.
  
- December 22, 2011: Apparently coordinated rush hour blasts in Baghdad kill 60 people and wound 183. Violence elsewhere leaves another seven dead.
  
- August 28, 2011: A suicide attack blamed on Al-Qaeda at Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque kills 28 people, including an MP, amid nationwide violence that leaves 35 dead.
  
- August 15, 2011: At least 74 people killed and more than 230 wounded in attacks across 17 cities, including 40 in twin bombings in the southern city of Kut.
  
- March 29, 2011: A massive Al-Qaeda attack on provincial government offices in Tikrit kills 58 and wounds 97.
  
- January 27, 2011: Baghdad attacks kill 53, including 48 in a car bombing on a condolence ceremony in a Shiite district.
  
- January 20, 2011: At least 50 killed in nationwide attacks, including 45 in twin suicide car bombings in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as pilgrims mark a holy day.
  
- January 18, 2011: A suicide attack on a crowd of police recruits in Tikrit kills 50 people and wounds 150.
  
- November 2, 2010: Eleven car bombs rock Baghdad, killing 63 people and wounding 285 in predominantly Shiite neighbourhoods in the Iraqi capital.
  
- October 31, 2010: Forty-six Christians, including two priests and seven security force members, are killed in a security force assault on a Baghdad cathedral to free dozens of hostages held by Al-Qaeda gunmen.
  
- August 25, 2010: More than a dozen apparently coordinated car bombs targeting Iraqi police and other attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda kill at least 53 and wound 300 other people.
  
- August 17, 2010: A suicide attack against an army recruitment centre in central Baghdad kills 59 people, most of them prospective soldiers.
  
- July 18, 2010: A suicide bomber targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen being paid their wages kills 45 people in Radwaniyah, west of Baghdad.
  
- July 8, 2010: A string of attacks against Shiite pilgrims in a three-day period leading up to July 8 kills 70 people in Baghdad.
  
- May 10, 2010: At least 110 people die across the country, 53 of them in a wave of car bomb attacks in the central city of Hilla.
  

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