| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 2016 List of years in Iraq | ||||
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Iraq.
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 2016 List of years in Iraq | ||||
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Iraq.
Events in the year 2005 in Iraq.
In 2003, there were 25 suicide bombings executed by 32 attackers.
The year was most notably marked by a series of battles in Fallujah. See Fallujah during the Iraq War.
2005 in Iraq was marked by the first elections held in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
This article details major terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2008. In 2008, there were 257 suicide bombings in Iraq. On February 1, a pair of bombs detonated were at a market in Baghdad, killing 99 people and injuring 200. Two other particularly deadly attacks occurred on March 6, and June 17.
This is a list of terrorist incidents in Iraq during 2010. Major attacks include a 1 February attack killing 54 in Baghdad, and a 10 May attack killed 45 at a fabrics factory in Hillah.
The Iraqi insurgency was an insurgency that began in late 2011 after the end of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, resulting in violent conflict with the central government, as well as low-level sectarian violence among Iraq's religious groups.
This list is limited to bombings and does not include other forms of attacks.
The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Iraq.
The following lists events the happened in 2013 in Iraq.
The Timeline of the War in Iraq covers the War in Iraq, a war which erupted that lasted in Iraq from 2013 to 2017, during the first year of armed conflict.
This article lists terrorist incidents in Iraq during 2016:
On 17 May 2016, a series of bombings by the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant hit the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. At least 101 people were killed and 194 injured.
On 3 July 2016, ISIL militants carried out coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed 340 civilians and injured hundreds more. A few minutes after midnight local time, a suicide truck-bomb targeted the mainly Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan. A second roadside bomb was detonated in the suburb of Sha'ab, killing at least five.
On 7 July 2016, at least 56 people were killed and 75 injured after a group of attackers stormed the Mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi, a Shia holy site in Balad, Iraq. The attackers included suicide car bombers, suicide bombers on foot, and several gunmen. They attacked Shia pilgrims celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. There were three suicide bombers, and one of them was killed by security personnel. There were other attackers too. ISIL also launched several mortars into the area.
This is a timeline of events during the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017 in its final year.