BAGHDAD, July 15 (AFP) - A car bomb attack on a police station in the Iraqi town of Haditha killed 10 people on Thursday, mirroring a similarly deadly attack in Baghdad the day before.
Following is a list of major attacks in Iraq over the past year:
2003
- June 24: Six British military police are killed in the southern Shiite town of Al-Majar Al-Kabir in a gunbattle with residents.
- July 5: Seven US-trained Iraqi police recruits are killed and 40 wounded in a blast at a training centre in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
- Aug 7: A car bomb outside the Jordanian mission in Baghdad kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens.
- Aug 11: Six Iraqi prisoners die and 59 are wounded when the Abu Gharib prison west of Baghdad comes under mortar fire.
- Aug 19: A truck bomb at UN headquarters in Baghdad kills 22 people, including UN Iraq envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.
- Aug 29: A car bomb kills 83 people, including leading Shiite politician Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, outside one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in the central city of Najaf.
- Sept 25: Eight Iraqi civilians die and 18 are injured when a mortar bomb strikes a crowded square in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.
- Oct 12: At least six people are killed in a suicide car bombing outside the Baghdad Hotel, home to US security personnel and contractors, as well as some members of the old US-backed Governing Council.
- Oct 26: Rockets pound Baghdad's Rashid Hotel where US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is staying, killing a soldier and wounding 17 others.
- Oct 27: Explosions across Baghdad target four police stations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, killing at least 43 people and wounding 200.
- Nov 2: A Chinook helicopter carrying US troops is shot down by a missile near Fallujah, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 26.
- Nov 7: A US Black Hawk helicopter is downed in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit north of Baghdad, killing all six aboard.
- Nov 12: A truck bomb attack in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, kills 28 people, including 19 Italians in the worst attack on Italian troops since World War II.
- Nov 15: Two Black Hawk helicopters collide over the northern city of Mosul after reportedly coming under fire, killing 17 US soldiers.
- Nov 22: At least 18 Iraqis are killed in twin suicide bombings on police stations north of Baghdad.
- Nov 29: Ambushes kill seven Spanish intelligence agents near Suwayrah, south of Baghdad, two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver near Tikrit, two US soldiers near the Syrian border and a Colombian civilian contractor in northern Iraq.
- Dec 14: An explosion at Khaldiya police station in western Iraq kills 16 policemen and two civilians, including a seven-year-old girl, and wounds 29 more, the day after the capture of former president Saddam Hussein.
- Dec 15: Two nearly simultaneous car bombs kill eight people and wound at least 17 at Baghdad police stations.
- Dec 24: A suicide bombing kills five, including the bomber, and wounds 101 at interior ministry offices in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil.
- Dec 27: Seven coalition soldiers -- five Bulgarians and two Thais -- and 12 Iraqis are killed and at least 180 people wounded in car bomb and mortar attacks in the holy Shiite city of Karbala.
- Dec 31: Eight people are killed and 24 wounded when an explosives-packed car rams into a popular Baghdad restaurant on New Year's Eve.
2004
- Jan 18: At least 25 people, mainly Iraqis, are killed and 130 wounded in a suicide car bombing outside the US headquarters in Baghdad.
- Feb 1: At least 105 people are killed and nearly 250 wounded when twin suicide bombers blow themselves up at the headquarters of the two leading Kurdish political parties in Arbil.
- Feb 10: At least 55 people are killed and 67 wounded in a suspected suicide car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad.
- Feb 11: Forty-seven Iraqis die in a suicide attack outside an army recruitment centre in Baghdad.
- Feb 14: At least 23 Iraqi police and four attackers are killed and about 30 other people wounded in simultaneous assaults on a police station and the Iraqi civil defence headquarters in hotspot of Fallujah.
- Feb 23: Ten people including two suicide bombers are killed in an attack on a police station in Kirkuk shortly before US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds talks there.
- March 2: Bomb attacks on Shiite Muslims in Karbala and Baghdad kill more than 180 people in the deadliest bombings since the fall of Saddam.
- March 31: Four American civilian security contractors are killed in Fallujah and two of the bodies are mutilated in an ambush which sparks a US military siege which claimed hundreds of lives.
- April 4: Seven US soldiers are killed in Baghdad's impoverished Shiite suburb of Sadr City.
- April 21: Bomb attacks targeting police stations around Basra in southern Iraq kill at least 68 people, mostly policemen and schoolchildren, and wound almost 100 others.
- April 24: Three US soldiers are killed in foiled suicide attacks on Iraq's southern oil export terminals in Basra.
- May 6: A suicide car bombing kills seven Iraqis and one US soldier near coalition headquarters.
- May 11: A web site close to Osama bin Laden's terror network posts a video showing the beheading of US national Nicholas Berg.
- May 17: The head of the old Governing Council, Ezzedine Salim, is killed in a car bombing.
- June 12-13: More than 20 Iraqis, including two senior officials, die in and around Baghdad. Five Kurdish recruits of the new army are killed and their bodies burnt north of the capital.
- June 14: A suicide bombing in Baghdad kills 13 people, including five foreigners, in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda linked group.
- June 16: Five Iraqis and four foreigners killed in attack in Ramadi.
- June 17: A suicide car bomber rams into a queue of army recruits in Baghdad killing 35 and wounding 141. Six members of the US-trained civil defence force are killed in a separate bombing north of Baghdad.
- June 24: Insurgents linked with Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi unleash a wave of coordinated attacks across Iraq killing more than 100 people and wounding some 300.
- June 26: Twenty-three are killed and 58 injured in a car bomb attack in Hilla, south of Baghdad.
- July 1: At least seven people are killed and 17 wounded in a US military strike in Fallujah, five others died in roadside blasts in Baghdad.
- July 3: Six Iraqi national guard soldiers are killed while guarding an oil pipeline south of Baghdad.
- July 5: A US warplane bombs a house in Fallujah, killing 12 people.
- July 6: At least nine people are killed and 37 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Khales, near the restive town of Baquba.
- July 8: Five US soldiers and two Iraqi national guardsmen are killed in a massive mortar attack that flattened the national guard headquarters in Samarra.
- July 14: At least 10 people are killed and 40 wounded in a car bomb blast outside the compound housing US embassy and the Iraqi government.
- July 15: Ten people, including three policemen, are killed and another 27 injured in a car bomb attack outside a police station in town of Haditha, west of Baghdad on the road to Syria.