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The January 2021 Baghdad bombings were a pair of terrorist attacks that occurred on 21 January 2021, carried out by two suicide bombers at an open-air market in central Baghdad, Iraq. [1] They killed at least 32 people and injured another 110. This was the Iraqi capital’s first terrorist attack since 2019. [2]
On Easter Sunday April 11, 2004, a battle was fought at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in Iraq primarily between United States Army truck drivers, air defense artillerymen, armor, military policemen, engineers and miscellaneous logistics personnel and militants from Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, along the Southwest side of the airport wall in an area commonly referred to as Engineer Village.
January 2018 Baghdad bombings; 2019. Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad; 2020. 2020 Camp Taji attacks; 2021. January 2021 Baghdad bombings
The day after the Baghdad airport attack, Iraqi state news reported that there had been another airstrike on a convoy of medical units of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces near Camp Taji in Taji, north of Baghdad. An Iraqi Army source told Reuters the attack killed six people and critically wounded three. [158]
The expected visit by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Baghdad Wednesday would be his first official trip abroad since taking office. Iraq’s security media cell said in a statement that an explosion was heard at 11 p.m. at the airport, in an area used by advisers to the U.S.-led international coalition.
January 2021 Baghdad bombings; 2010 Baghdad church siege; January 2016 Baghdad–Miqdadiyah attacks; F. Al-Faqma ice cream parlor bombing; K. 2016 Karrada bombing;
The aircraft took off from Baghdad International Airport en route to Bahrain International Airport at 06:30 UTC. [9] To reduce exposure to ground attack, the aircraft was executing a rapid climbout .
A car bomb in the all-Shia neighborhood Sadr City left at least 30 dead and 57 wounded. Another car bomb in the majority-Shia suburb al-Rashid, south of the capital, killed six and wounded 21. [11] A parked car bomb struck a market in the neighborhood of Dora, in southern Baghdad, killing eight people and