Major Iraq attacks since 2003

AFP - Here is a reminder of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.

Iraq is reeling from one of the worst car bombings it has ever suffered, with a death toll that surpassed 200 on Monday.
The blast ripped through a crowded shopping area early Sunday ahead of the holiday this week that marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month.
Read: More than 200 dead in Daesh-claimed Baghdad blast: Officials
Here is a reminder of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
-- 2016 --
- July 3: At least 213 people are killed when a suicide car bomber attacks a busy shopping area in the Baghdad district of Karrada. The blast is claimed by Daesh, which has been driven out of Fallujah by Iraqi forces a week earlier.
- May 11: Daesh claims three car bombs in Baghdad - including a huge blast in the predominantly Shia district of Sadr City - that kill a total of 94 people.
-- 2013 --
- August 10: Simultaneous attacks in Baghdad at the end of Ramadan kill 74 people. They are claimed by the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda, from which Daesh emerged.
-- 2009 --
- October 25: 153 people are killed and more than 500 wounded when two car bombs explode in Baghdad in attacks claimed by an Al Qaeda-linked group.
- August 19: 106 people are killed and almost 600 wounded when two truck bombs explode near the foreign and finance ministries in Baghdad. Al Qaeda in Iraq claims responsibility, with Iraqi authorities later incriminating a branch of the Baath party in Syria.
-- 2007 --
- August 14: More than 400 people are slaughtered when four suicide truck bombs target members of the ancient Yazidi religious sect in two Kurdish villages in northern Iraq.
- July 16: A suicide bomber ploughs into a Kurdish party office in the northern city of Kirkuk, taking 84 lives and injuring 185 people.
- July 7: As many as 150 people are killed in a suicide truck bombing in Emerli village in northern Iraq.
- April 18: A wave of car bomb attacks on Shia districts of Baghdad leaves 190 dead.
- March 27: An anti-Shia attack in the northern town of Tal Afar kills 152.
- March 6: 118 Shia pilgrims are slaughtered across the country, including at least 90 who died when two suicide attackers set off bombs in the overwhelmingly Shia city of Hilla.
- February 3: A suicide truck bomb attack in a Baghdad market kills at least 130.
-- 2006 --
- November 23: At least 202 die in a string of car bombings in Baghdad's Sadr City.
-- 2005 --
- September 14: At least 128 people are killed as a suicide bomber targets day labourers in the Baghdad Shia district of Kadhimiyah.
- February 28: At least 118 people are killed and scores more wounded when a suicide bombing hits Hilla.
-- 2004 --
- March 2: Bomb attacks on Shias in Karbala and Baghdad kill more than 170 and wound 550.
- February 1: One hundred and five people are killed when twin suicide bombers blow themselves up at the headquarters of two Kurdish political parties in Arbil.
-- 2003 --
- August 29: A car bomb kills 83 people, including leading politician Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer Al Hakim, outside one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines in Najaf.

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