Iraq

2003 August 7th. - Iraq, Baghdad, Jordanian Embassy: remote-controlled car explosion; at least 19 people died

2003 August 19th. Iraq, Baghdad, Canal hotel housing United Nations (UN) headquarters: in a suspected suicide attack a cement truck packed with explosives detonated around 4:30 p.m. local time at the concrete wall outside the three-story building. The blast occurred while a news conference was under way in the building, where 300 U.N. employees work. The truck was parked on an access road just outside the compound. The explosion created a six-foot-deep crater in the ground; 20 people, including the U.N. envoy, died and at least 100 people were injured.

The U.N. distributes humanitarian aid and is developing programs aimed at boosting Iraq's emerging free press, justice system and monitoring of human rights. United Nations weapons inspectors worked out of the hotel during the period before the war.
The Canal Hotel operates more as an office building than a hotel. The cafeteria is a popular meeting place for humanitarian workers and journalists. U.S. officials often met at the compound as well for discussions with their U.N. counterparts.

2003 August 29th. - Iraq, Najaf, Iman Ali Mosque: a car bomb exploded outside one of the Shiites' most-holy sites as hundreds of people left at the close of prayers. Najaf, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, is Shiite Islam's holiest city. The week before, about a half-mile from the mosque, another bomb had exploded at the house of a relative of the ayatollah Al-Hakim, one of Shiite Islam's top clerics.

U.S. forces were providing security at one hospital, trying to maintain order in front, where hundreds of relatives of victims clamored to get information about their loved ones.
125 people, including the ayatollah died, and at least 142 were injured.

2003 November 21st. - Iraq, Baghdad: rockets launched from donkey-pulled carts hit the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the heavily guarded Palestine and Sheraton hotels. The oil ministry building was hit by 7 to 10 rockets causing only property damage; 2 people were injured at the hotels.

2003 November 22nd. - Iraq, Khan Bani Sa'ad, Police Station: Shortly before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. EST), a suicide car bomber a vehicle laden with explosives at high speed into the station about 12 miles north of Baghdad; ay least 9 people died and 10 were injured.
Three hours after the initial attack, another explosion was reported near the same police station, wounding at least two children.

2003 November 22nd. - Iraq, Ba'qubah Police station: at about the same time as the Khan Bani Sa'ad attack, a car bomb another police station about 50 miles north of Baghdad; 9 people (6 police personnel and 3 civilians) died and at least 20 were injured.

2003 November 22nd. - Iraq, Baghdad International Airport: a DHL courier plane was hit by a SAM-7, a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile with a one-pound warhead, shortly after take-off. Despite a damaged engine, the crew managed to return the aircraft to the airport, where the engine fire was quickly extinguished. No one was injured.

Missiles have been fired several times at planes approaching the airport.
Saturday's incident was the first time a fixed-wing aircraft had been hit since the declared end to major combat operations on May 1.
In recent weeks, five U.S. helicopters have crashed or been shot down, killing 39 soldiers.