BAGHDAD - Herewith some of the deadliest of the daily attacks on civilians in Iraq:
2007
- April 28: A suicide car-bomb attack near the Imam Abbas shrine in the Shiite city of Karbala kills at least 58 people and wounds 170 others, many of them women and children.
- April 14: Forty-two people are killed in a suicide car bombing near the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala.
- March 6: 118 Shiite pilgrims are slaughtered across the country, including at least 90 who died when two suicide attackers set off their bombs in a crowd in the central town of Hilla.
- March 5: At least 26 people are killed when a car bomb hits Baghdad's oldest book market.
- Feb 25: A suicide bomber kills at least 40 people, many of them women students, at a Baghdad university that was also attacked in January.
- Feb 24: At least 35 people die in a bomb attack on a Sunni mosque in western Iraq.
- Feb 12: Attacks on two Baghdad markets kill at least 79.
- Feb 3: A suicide truck bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadriya market kills 130 people and wounds 305.
- Feb 1: A twin suicide attack on a Hilla market kills 73 people.
- Jan 22: Two car bombs leave at least 88 people dead in Baghdad.
- Jan 16: Bombs outside a Baghdad university kill at least 70 people, mostly students.
2006
- Dec 12: At least 70 people die when suicide bombers blow up vehicles among a crowd of casual labourers in Baghdad.
- Nov 23: At least 202 people die in a string of car bombings in the Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, Baghdad.
- Aug 13: A series of car bombings in southeastern Baghdad leaves 73 dead.
- April 7: Ninety people are killed when three suicide bombers blow themselves up as worshippers leave a Baghdad Shiite mosque.
- Feb 22: Insurgents bomb a revered Shiite shrine in the town of Samarra, triggering a wave of communal bloodshed that leaves hundreds dead.
- Jan 5: A suicide bomber kills 67 at a police recruitment centre in Ramadi, west of Baghdad while a suicide attack in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala kills 44.
2005
- Nov 18: Suicide attacks against two Shiite mosques in Khanaqin, northeast of Baghdad, kill 78.
- Sept 29: A triple car bombing leaves 99 dead in Balad, a mainly Shiite town north of Baghdad.
- Sept 14: At least 128 people are killed as a suicide bomber targets day labourers in the Baghdad Shiite district of Kadhimiyah.
- July 16: A suicide bomber blows up a propane gas tanker near a Shiite mosque in Al-Musayyib, south of the capital, killing 83 people.
- May 11: Bombers strike in three Iraqi cities, killing 84.
- March 10: Fifty-one Iraqis are killed in a suicide bombing at a Shiite funeral in Mosul.
- Feb 28: At least 118 people are killed and scores more wounded when a suicide bombing hits the overwhelmingly Shiite city of Hilla.
2004
- Dec 19: Car bombs explode near Shiite shrines in Najaf and Karbala, killing at least 66 people and wounding more than 200.
- July 28: Seventy people are killed in a suicide car bombing in Baquba, north of Baghdad.
- June 24: Insurgents unleash a wave of coordinated attacks across Iraq killing more than 100 people.
- April 21: Bomb attacks targeting police stations around the southern city of Basra kill at least 74 people, mostly policemen and schoolchildren.
- March 2: Bomb attacks on Shiites in Karbala and Baghdad kill more than 180 people.
- Feb 10: At least 55 people are killed in car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad.
- Feb 1: At least 105 people are killed when twin suicide bombers blow themselves up at the headquarters of two Kurdish political parties in Arbil.
2003
- Aug 29: A car bomb kills 83 people, including leading politician Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, outside one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in Najaf.
04/28/2007 18:28 GMT