Iraq Deadly attacks

Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq this year:

Monday: Suicide bombers, believed by police to be women, strike a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300.

July 15: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in a crowd of army recruits in Diyala province, killing at least 28 people and wounding at least 57.

June 17: A car bomb tears through a market area in Hurriyah, a mainly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, killing 63 people and wounding dozens.

May 14: A suicide bomber kills 22 people and wounds at least 35 at the funeral of a Sunni school principal in the village of Abu Minasir, west of Baghdad.

May 1: A double suicide bombing strikes a wedding convoy, killing at least 35 people and wounding 65 others in the town of Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad.

April 15: Bombings blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq tear through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital, killing nearly 60 people.

March 17: A female suicide bomber strikes Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala, killing at least 49 people.

March 6: A pair of bombs detonate in a crowded shopping district in the central Baghdad district of Karradah, killing 68 people and wounding about 120.

March 3: A car bomber kills at least 22 people and wounds 43 in central Baghdad’s Bab al-Mudham neighborhood on the eastern bank of the Tigris.

Feb. 10: A car bomb explodes near an Iraqi checkpoint in an open-market area north of Baghdad, killing at least 23 civilians and wounding 25.

Feb. 1: Two mentally disabled women strapped with remote-control explosives strike pet markets in Baghdad. At least 99 people were killed; Iraqi authorities believe the women may have been used as unwitting suicide bombers.

Jan. 1: A suicide attacker kills at least 32 men gathered in eastern Baghdad to mourn the death of a retired Iraqi army officer who died the week before in a car bombing.

Source: Associated Press