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2013 in Iraq

The following lists events the happened in 2013 in Iraq.

2013
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List of years in Iraq

Incumbents edit

Events edit

January edit

  • 3 January – A suicide bombing in Mussayab kills 27 Shiite pilgrims and injures 60 others.
  • 15 January – A suicide bomber kills a Sunni MP and six others in Fallujah, two days after Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi survived an assassination attempt in the same city. The parliamentarian, Ifan Saadoun al-Issawi, was an important member of the Sahwa committee in Fallujah and part of the opposition to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
  • 17 January – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
    • Two car bombs explode in the city of Dujail, leaving at least 7 dead and 25 wounded.
    • A bomb detonated on a bus carrying pilgrims in Iraq. In a separate incident a roadside bomb detonated and injures two pilgrims walking to Hussein ibn Ali. Another bomb detonated at a bus stop killing 7 people and wounding 28. Also a civilian vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb leaving 2 dead. In total 33 people were killed in one of the most violent days this month.
  • 22 January – Car bombings in Baghdad kill at least 17 people and injure dozens of others.
  • 23 January – A suicide bombing at a mosque in Tuz Khormato kills at least 23 people.
  • 25 January – Ongoing protests by Sunni Muslims in Iraq against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turn deadly, as clashes leave 7 protesters and 2 soldiers dead in Fallujah. More than 60 others are injured, and at least 3 soldiers are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen.

February edit

  • 3 February – At least 33 people are killed in Kirkuk, when a suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters and gunmen disguised as officers tried to storm the compound.
  • 4 February – A suicide bomber attacks a government building in Taji, 15 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad, killing 22 and injuring 44 others. Nineteen of the dead are members of the Sahwa militia opposed to al-Qaeda in Iraq, who were waiting for their monthly salaries.
  • 8 February – A string of bombings kill at least 29 people and injure 69 others in central Iraq, including twin blasts in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighborhood, as well as the city of Hilla.
  • 9 February – A rocket kills six people and injures over 50 others at Camp Liberty, an Iraqi facility near Baghdad that shelters members of People's Mujahedin of Iran.
  • 16 February – A suicide bombing kills General Ali Aouni, the head of the Iraqi intelligence academy, and three of his bodyguards in Tal Afar.
  • 17 February – A series of car bombs kill at least 37 people and injure more than 130 others in mostly Shiite areas of the capital Baghdad.
  • 28 February – At least 23 people are killed and 60 others injured in a series of bombings in Shiite districts of Baghdad and surrounding suburbs.
  • 28 February – At least eight people are killed and several are missing after a restaurant boat sinks in the Tigris, in central Baghdad.

March edit

  • 4 March – At least 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in ambush in Western Iraq.
  • 11 March – The insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility for ambushing a convoy of Syrian Army soldiers on March 4.
  • 14 March – A string of coordinated car bombs and suicide bombers strike central Baghdad, followed by a militant attack on the Justice Ministry building. At least 25 people are killed, including 7 police officers and 3 militants, along with 50 wounded.
  • 17 March – A car bombing near a bus station in Garmat Ali near Basra kills at least 10 people.
  • 19 March – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
  • 24 March – US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Iraq on an unannounced visit to press for greater co-operation over the conflict in Syria.
  • 26 March – A roadside bombing kills the head of a local town council and a member of a provincial council in Tuz Khurmatu, Saladin Governorate.
  • 29 March – Coordinated car bombings against five Shiite mosques in Baghdad and Kirkuk kill 23 worshipers.

April edit

  • 1 April – A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police headquarters in Tikrit, killing at least nine people. Three people are killed in a separate shooting in Baghdad.
  • 6 April – At least 22 people are killed and more than 60 others injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a busy election campaign tent in Baquba.
  • 12 April – At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded in bomb attacks at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and in the province of Diyala.
  • 15 April – At least 33 people are killed and more than 160 others are wounded during a wave of bombings in Kirkuk, Baqubah, Tikrit, Fallujah, Nassiriyah, Mussayab and Baghdad.
  • 18 April – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
    • At least 27 people, including two children, are killed and 65 injured in a bomb attack on a cafe in Baghdad.
    • At least five people are killed in separate incidents in Iraq including a suspected al-Qaeda leader in Mosul.
  • 23 April – 2013 Hawija clashes
    • At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, between police forces and Sunni Muslim activists.
    • Two roadside bombs detonate outside a Sunni mosque killing at least 4 people and wounding 13 in Dora, Baghdad.
  • 23 April – British businessman James McCormick is convicted at the Old Bailey on three counts of fraud after selling fake bomb detectors based on a device for finding golf balls to countries including Iraq and Georgia.
  • 27 April – The Free Syrian Army accuses the government of Iraq of conducting an airstrike against its forces in Deir ez-Zor, a town in eastern Syria.
  • 27 April – The death toll of the recent spate of anti-government violence in Iraq surpasses 190 as protests against the leadership of Nouri al-Maliki continue.
  • 29 April – The government of Iraq shuts down 10 television stations including Al Jazeera, accusing them of encouraging the sectarian violence by Sunni Muslims in the country.

May edit

  • 1 May – Multiple bomb attacks across Iraq kill at least 15 people.
  • 2 May – At least 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in two separate attacks within Fallujah.
  • 6 May – At least 10 people are killed and 26 others injured in attacks across Iraq.
  • 15 May – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
    • Gunmen using silenced weapons attack at least nine alcohol stores in western Baghdad, killing twelve people.
    • Thirty-five people, including three police officers, are killed in bomb attacks in Shi'ite sections of Baghdad and parts of northern Iraq.
  • 16 May – Seventeen people are killed when car bombs detonate and gunman attack people in Baghdad.
  • 17 May – A string of bombings, most of them in Sunni areas of Iraq, kill at least 90 people and injured more than 200 others.
  • 18 May – Gunmen break into the home of an anti-terrorism police officer in the Baghdad suburbs, killing him and his family.
  • 20 May – A wave of violence continues, with attacks across the country killing 133 and leaving 283 others injured. Almost 400 people have been killed in the last six days alone, as tribal leaders warn of impending civil war.
  • 25 May – A bomb explodes near a bus north of Baghdad, killing six Iranians, one Iraqi, and wounding fourteen people.
  • 30 May – A series of bombings across Iraq kills at least eleven people.

June edit

  • 1 June – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
    • Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons, as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America.
    • UN death-toll figures show more than 1000 people died from violent attacks in Iraq during the month of May, making it the country's deadliest month since 2008.
  • 5 June – Fourteen people are killed at a fake security checkpoint manned by gunmen in western Iraq.
  • 6 June – Gunmen ambush a bus in Al Anbar Governorate, killing 10 border police and 5 civilians.
  • 7 June – At least 19 people are killed when two suicide bombers drive cars packed with explosives into targets in the Baghdad area.
  • 10 June – Bombs explode across Iraq, killing at least 70 people and wounding many more, following a month of attacks bloodier than any the country has experienced since June 2008.
  • 15 June – A mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills 2 people and wounds 27 others.
  • 16 June – A series of car bombings by insurgents across central and southern Iraq kill at least twenty people.
  • 18 June – Twin suicide bombings kill 31 and wound another 60 in al-Qahira, Baghdad.
  • 28 June – Fifteen people are killed in attacks targeting Iraqi police and anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen.

July edit

In July 2013 alone, 700 people were killed in militant attacks in Iraq:[1]

  • 2 July – A wave of market bomb attacks mostly targeting Shi'ite Muslims kills 46 people.
  • 5 July – 15 people die in a suicide bomb attack targeting a Shia mosque in Baghdad.
  • 11 July – Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq kill more than 30 people including members of the Iraqi security forces.
  • 14 July – Unknown attackers kill six people in and near the city of Mosul.
  • 17 July – A bomb detonates inside a teahouse in Mosul, killing at least 10 people.
  • 19 July – A suicide bombing inside a Sunni mosque in the province of Diyala kills at least twenty people.
  • 21 July – Hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners escape during armed raids on two Iraqi prisons.
  • 22 July – At least 37 people are killed in Iraq amid a two-day spate of suicide bombings and armed prison escapes.
  • 28 July – A suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato kills at least eight policemen.
  • 29 July – A wave of twelve car bombs targeting Shiite communities in Iraq kills at least 44 people.

August edit

  • 3 August – At least eight people have been killed in violence across Iraq.
  • 6 August – 25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by car bombs near markets in Baghdad.
  • 10 August – A bomb kills four people and wounds 16 in a park south of Baghdad.
  • 12 August – Eight people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack on a cafe in Balad north of Baghdad.
  • 14 August – Two roadside bombs explode in Baqubah killing 14 and wounding 26 people.
  • 22 August – Fourteen people are killed by a suicide bomber in a military headquarters in Western Iraq.
  • 23 August – 26 people are killed and 55 wounded by a suicide bomber in a park in northern Baghdad.
  • 25 August – A wave of bomb attacks kill 41 people.
  • 26 August – Newly declassified CIA documents show that top officials in the Reagan administration agreed to give Iraq information on the location of Iranian troops during the Iran–Iraq War despite awareness of Saddam Hussein's intention to use chemical weapons.
  • 26 August – The Supreme Court of Iraq overturns term limits for senior governmental positions, allowing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to seek a third term in 2014.
  • 28 August – At least 51 people are killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings and attacks in and around Baghdad.

September edit

  • 10 September – Bomb attacks targeting both Shi'ite Muslims and Sunnis kill at least 16 people.
  • 13 September – A bomb in a Baghdad Sunni mosque kills at least 30 people.
  • 15 September – Bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces kill at least 21 people.
  • 21 September – Over 100 people are killed in a series of attacks across Iraq, most of them in a twin suicide bombing at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood.
  • 27 September – Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, kill seven people.
  • 30 September – Fourteen car bombs targeting Shi'ite neighborhoods in Baghdad leave 54 people dead.

October edit

  • 2 October – Gunmen shoot down a military helicopter in northern Iraq killing all four crew members.
  • 6 October – Two car bombs detonate in a village near Tal Afar, killing and wounding dozens of people.
  • 10 October – The Justice Ministry of Iraq announces it has executed 42 terrorism convicts in two days amidst condemnation from human rights groups.
  • 15 October – A bomb detonates outside a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk, killing 12 worshipers and injuring another 24.
  • 17 October – Attacks on Shia Muslims killed at least 59 people across Iraq, including a suicide truck bomb targeting at least 15 members of the country's Shabak people.
  • 20 October – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
    • Suicide bombers targeting police and local officials in Rawa, northwest of Baghdad, kill 15 people.
    • At least 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a cafe in the Shia-dominated area of Baghdad.
  • 22 October – Militants kill 22 security forces in police and military checkpoints in Anbar Province.
  • 27 October – A series of car bombings around Baghdad, kills at least 38 people.
  • 30 October – Twenty people are killed in bombings.

November edit

  • 6 November – A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an oil tanker truck, killing 15 people in Baghdad.
  • 13 November – Bombs across Iraq detonate, killing 18 people.
  • 14 November – 39 people are killed in Iraq in attacks against Shiites Muslims.
  • 16 November – A series of attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq kills four policemen and wounds dozens.
  • 21 November – A truck bomb detonates in a vegetable market in northeastern Iraq, killing at least 31 people.
  • 22 November – 23 people are killed in bombing and shootings.
  • 23 November – A car bomb and a suicide bomber kills nine people and wounds 54.
  • 25 November – Two bombs exploded outside a cafe in Baghdad in the district of Sadriya, home to mainly Shiite Muslims, killing at least 17 and wounding 37.
  • 27 November – 33 people are killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq.
  • 29 November – A wave of violence in Iraq kills 52 people, most of whom were kidnapped and then shot dead.

December edit

  • 1 December – A suicide bombing at a funeral killed at least 17 people in Baqubah.
  • 4 December – Iraqi security forces stormed the Jawahir Mall in Kirkuk after armed gunmen seize hostages.
  • 5 December – Militants in Kirkuk attacked a mall and police headquarters, killing 10 people and injuring another 70.
  • 8 December – At least 30 people are killed as a result of car bombings.
  • 9 December – Attacks around Iraq killed at least 18 people, including a car bombing at a cafe in the town of Buhriz which killed 12 people.
  • 9 December – Iraqi Jewish artifacts that were rescued from Saddam Hussein's palace by a Jewish-American scholar and brought to the United States were scheduled to be returned to Iraq by the end of the summer in 2014, despite objections from American Jews citing instability in Iraq.
  • 13 December – 15 Iranians and 3 Iraqis were killed in a pipeline attack in the north-east of Baghdad.
  • 19 December – A series of attacks across Iraq killed 22 Shiite pilgrims.
  • 20 December – Two roadside bombings in Iraq killed 11 people while more bombings and shootings across northern Iraq killed 14 people.
  • 21 December – Eighteen Iraqi military officers and soldiers were killed and more than 30 others injured after an attack in Rutbah, in Iraq's western Anbar province. Among those killed is the commander of the elite Iraqi 7th Division Major General Mohammed al-Karawi, as well as 4 other officers.
  • 23 December – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)
    • A mortar attack killed four Iraq army officers and two soldiers in an army base west of Baghdad.
    • A terrorist attack on a news complex in Tikrit, killed 5 people.
  • 25 December – Three bombs targeting Christians in Baghdad killed at least 38 people and wounded 70 others.
  • 29 December – 18 people were killed in attacks across Iraq, including a military general in a bombing in the northern city of Mosul.
  • 30 December – 10 people were killed in violence as Iraqi security forces dismantled an anti-government protest camp in the western city of Ramadi.
  • 31 December - ISIS launches an operation to capture the city of Fallujah, resulting in the escalation of the insurgency to a full-scale war.

References edit

  1. ^ "Al Qaeda says it freed 500 inmates in Iraq jail-break". Reuters. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.

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explode in the city of Dujail leaving at least 7 dead and 25 wounded A bomb detonated on a bus carrying pilgrims in Iraq In a separate incident a roadside bomb detonated and injures two pilgrims walking to Hussein ibn Ali Another bomb detonated at a bus stop killing 7 people and wounding 28 Also a civilian vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb leaving 2 dead In total 33 people were killed in one of the most violent days this month 22 January Car bombings in Baghdad kill at least 17 people and injure dozens of others 23 January A suicide bombing at a mosque in Tuz Khormato kills at least 23 people 25 January Ongoing protests by Sunni Muslims in Iraq against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki turn deadly as clashes leave 7 protesters and 2 soldiers dead in Fallujah More than 60 others are injured and at least 3 soldiers are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen February edit 3 February At least 33 people are killed in Kirkuk when a suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters and gunmen disguised as officers tried to storm the compound 4 February A suicide bomber attacks a government building in Taji 15 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad killing 22 and injuring 44 others Nineteen of the dead are members of the Sahwa militia opposed to al Qaeda in Iraq who were waiting for their monthly salaries 8 February A string of bombings kill at least 29 people and injure 69 others in central Iraq including twin blasts in Baghdad s Kadhimiya neighborhood as well as the city of Hilla 9 February A rocket kills six people and injures over 50 others at Camp Liberty an Iraqi facility near Baghdad that shelters members of People s Mujahedin of Iran 16 February A suicide bombing kills General Ali Aouni the head of the Iraqi intelligence academy and three of his bodyguards in Tal Afar 17 February A series of car bombs kill at least 37 people and injure more than 130 others in mostly Shiite areas of the capital Baghdad 28 February At least 23 people are killed and 60 others injured in a series of bombings in Shiite districts of Baghdad and surrounding suburbs 28 February At least eight people are killed and several are missing after a restaurant boat sinks in the Tigris in central Baghdad March edit 4 March At least 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in ambush in Western Iraq 11 March The insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq claims responsibility for ambushing a convoy of Syrian Army soldiers on March 4 14 March A string of coordinated car bombs and suicide bombers strike central Baghdad followed by a militant attack on the Justice Ministry building At least 25 people are killed including 7 police officers and 3 militants along with 50 wounded 17 March A car bombing near a bus station in Garmat Ali near Basra kills at least 10 people 19 March A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq 24 March US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Iraq on an unannounced visit to press for greater co operation over the conflict in Syria 26 March A roadside bombing kills the head of a local town council and a member of a provincial council in Tuz Khurmatu Saladin Governorate 29 March Coordinated car bombings against five Shiite mosques in Baghdad and Kirkuk kill 23 worshipers April edit 1 April A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police headquarters in Tikrit killing at least nine people Three people are killed in a separate shooting in Baghdad 6 April At least 22 people are killed and more than 60 others injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up in a busy election campaign tent in Baquba 12 April At least 11 people are killed and more than 30 are wounded in bomb attacks at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and in the province of Diyala 15 April At least 33 people are killed and more than 160 others are wounded during a wave of bombings in Kirkuk Baqubah Tikrit Fallujah Nassiriyah Mussayab and Baghdad 18 April Iraqi insurgency post U S withdrawal At least 27 people including two children are killed and 65 injured in a bomb attack on a cafe in Baghdad At least five people are killed in separate incidents in Iraq including a suspected al Qaeda leader in Mosul 23 April 2013 Hawija clashes At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija between police forces and Sunni Muslim activists Two roadside bombs detonate outside a Sunni mosque killing at least 4 people and wounding 13 in Dora Baghdad 23 April British businessman James McCormick is convicted at the Old Bailey on three counts of fraud after selling fake bomb detectors based on a device for finding golf balls to countries including Iraq and Georgia 27 April The Free Syrian Army accuses the government of Iraq of conducting an airstrike against its forces in Deir ez Zor a town in eastern Syria 27 April The death toll of the recent spate of anti government violence in Iraq surpasses 190 as protests against the leadership of Nouri al Maliki continue 29 April The government of Iraq shuts down 10 television stations including Al Jazeera accusing them of encouraging the sectarian violence by Sunni Muslims in the country May edit 1 May Multiple bomb attacks across Iraq kill at least 15 people 2 May At least 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in two separate attacks within Fallujah 6 May At least 10 people are killed and 26 others injured in attacks across Iraq 15 May Iraqi insurgency post U S withdrawal Gunmen using silenced weapons attack at least nine alcohol stores in western Baghdad killing twelve people Thirty five people including three police officers are killed in bomb attacks in Shi ite sections of Baghdad and parts of northern Iraq 16 May Seventeen people are killed when car bombs detonate and gunman attack people in Baghdad 17 May A string of bombings most of them in Sunni areas of Iraq kill at least 90 people and injured more than 200 others 18 May Gunmen break into the home of an anti terrorism police officer in the Baghdad suburbs killing him and his family 20 May A wave of violence continues with attacks across the country killing 133 and leaving 283 others injured Almost 400 people have been killed in the last six days alone as tribal leaders warn of impending civil war 25 May A bomb explodes near a bus north of Baghdad killing six Iranians one Iraqi and wounding fourteen people 30 May A series of bombings across Iraq kills at least eleven people June edit 1 June Iraqi insurgency post U S withdrawal Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an Al Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America UN death toll figures show more than 1000 people died from violent attacks in Iraq during the month of May making it the country s deadliest month since 2008 5 June Fourteen people are killed at a fake security checkpoint manned by gunmen in western Iraq 6 June Gunmen ambush a bus in Al Anbar Governorate killing 10 border police and 5 civilians 7 June At least 19 people are killed when two suicide bombers drive cars packed with explosives into targets in the Baghdad area 10 June Bombs explode across Iraq killing at least 70 people and wounding many more following a month of attacks bloodier than any the country has experienced since June 2008 15 June A mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills 2 people and wounds 27 others 16 June A series of car bombings by insurgents across central and southern Iraq kill at least twenty people 18 June Twin suicide bombings kill 31 and wound another 60 in al Qahira Baghdad 28 June Fifteen people are killed in attacks targeting Iraqi police and anti Al Qaeda militiamen July edit In July 2013 alone 700 people were killed in militant attacks in Iraq 1 2 July A wave of market bomb attacks mostly targeting Shi ite Muslims kills 46 people 5 July 15 people die in a suicide bomb attack targeting a Shia mosque in Baghdad 11 July Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq kill more than 30 people including members of the Iraqi security forces 14 July Unknown attackers kill six people in and near the city of Mosul 17 July A bomb detonates inside a teahouse in Mosul killing at least 10 people 19 July A suicide bombing inside a Sunni mosque in the province of Diyala kills at least twenty people 21 July Hundreds of al Qaeda prisoners escape during armed raids on two Iraqi prisons 22 July At least 37 people are killed in Iraq amid a two day spate of suicide bombings and armed prison escapes 28 July A suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato kills at least eight policemen 29 July A wave of twelve car bombs targeting Shiite communities in Iraq kills at least 44 people August edit 3 August At least eight people have been killed in violence across Iraq 6 August 25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by car bombs near markets in Baghdad 10 August A bomb kills four people and wounds 16 in a park south of Baghdad 12 August Eight people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack on a cafe in Balad north of Baghdad 14 August Two roadside bombs explode in Baqubah killing 14 and wounding 26 people 22 August Fourteen people are killed by a suicide bomber in a military headquarters in Western Iraq 23 August 26 people are killed and 55 wounded by a suicide bomber in a park in northern Baghdad 25 August A wave of bomb attacks kill 41 people 26 August Newly declassified CIA documents show that top officials in the Reagan administration agreed to give Iraq information on the location of Iranian troops during the Iran Iraq War despite awareness of Saddam Hussein s intention to use chemical weapons 26 August The Supreme Court of Iraq overturns term limits for senior governmental positions allowing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to seek a third term in 2014 28 August At least 51 people are killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings and attacks in and around Baghdad September edit 10 September Bomb attacks targeting both Shi ite Muslims and Sunnis kill at least 16 people 13 September A bomb in a Baghdad Sunni mosque kills at least 30 people 15 September Bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces kill at least 21 people 21 September Over 100 people are killed in a series of attacks across Iraq most of them in a twin suicide bombing at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad s Sadr City neighborhood 27 September Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad kill seven people 30 September Fourteen car bombs targeting Shi ite neighborhoods in Baghdad leave 54 people dead October edit 2 October Gunmen shoot down a military helicopter in northern Iraq killing all four crew members 6 October Two car bombs detonate in a village near Tal Afar killing and wounding dozens of people 10 October The Justice Ministry of Iraq announces it has executed 42 terrorism convicts in two days amidst condemnation from human rights groups 15 October A bomb detonates outside a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk killing 12 worshipers and injuring another 24 17 October Attacks on Shia Muslims killed at least 59 people across Iraq including a suicide truck bomb targeting at least 15 members of the country s Shabak people 20 October Iraqi insurgency post U S withdrawal Suicide bombers targeting police and local officials in Rawa northwest of Baghdad kill 15 people At least 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a cafe in the Shia dominated area of Baghdad 22 October Militants kill 22 security forces in police and military checkpoints in Anbar Province 27 October A series of car bombings around Baghdad kills at least 38 people 30 October Twenty people are killed in bombings November edit 6 November A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an oil tanker truck killing 15 people in Baghdad 13 November Bombs across Iraq detonate killing 18 people 14 November 39 people are killed in Iraq in attacks against Shiites Muslims 16 November A series of attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq kills four policemen and wounds dozens 21 November A truck bomb detonates in a vegetable market in northeastern Iraq killing at least 31 people 22 November 23 people are killed in bombing and shootings 23 November A car bomb and a suicide bomber kills nine people and wounds 54 25 November Two bombs exploded outside a cafe in Baghdad in the district of Sadriya home to mainly Shiite Muslims killing at least 17 and wounding 37 27 November 33 people are killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq 29 November A wave of violence in Iraq kills 52 people most of whom were kidnapped and then shot dead December edit 1 December A suicide bombing at a funeral killed at least 17 people in Baqubah 4 December Iraqi security forces stormed the Jawahir Mall in Kirkuk after armed gunmen seize hostages 5 December Militants in Kirkuk attacked a mall and police headquarters killing 10 people and injuring another 70 8 December At least 30 people are killed as a result of car bombings 9 December Attacks around Iraq killed at least 18 people including a car bombing at a cafe in the town of Buhriz which killed 12 people 9 December Iraqi Jewish artifacts that were rescued from Saddam Hussein s palace by a Jewish American scholar and brought to the United States were scheduled to be returned to Iraq by the end of the summer in 2014 despite objections from American Jews citing instability in Iraq 13 December 15 Iranians and 3 Iraqis were killed in a pipeline attack in the north east of Baghdad 19 December A series of attacks across Iraq killed 22 Shiite pilgrims 20 December Two roadside bombings in Iraq killed 11 people while more bombings and shootings across northern Iraq killed 14 people 21 December Eighteen Iraqi military officers and soldiers were killed and more than 30 others injured after an attack in Rutbah in Iraq s western Anbar province Among those killed is the commander of the elite Iraqi 7th Division Major General Mohammed al Karawi as well as 4 other officers 23 December Iraqi insurgency post U S withdrawal A mortar attack killed four Iraq army officers and two soldiers in an army base west of Baghdad A terrorist attack on a news complex in Tikrit killed 5 people 25 December Three bombs targeting Christians in Baghdad killed at least 38 people and wounded 70 others 29 December 18 people were killed in attacks across Iraq including a military general in a bombing in the northern city of Mosul 30 December 10 people were killed in violence as Iraqi security forces dismantled an anti government protest camp in the western city of Ramadi 31 December ISIS launches an operation to capture the city of Fallujah resulting in the escalation of the insurgency to a full scale war References edit Al Qaeda says it freed 500 inmates in Iraq jail break Reuters 23 July 2013 Retrieved 14 January 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2013 in Iraq amp oldid 1032022474, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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