This article details major terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2008. In 2008, there were 257 suicide bombings in Iraq. On February 1, a pair of bombs detonated at a market in Baghdad, killing 99 people and injuring 200. Two other particularly deadly attacks occurred on March 6 (53 deaths), and June 17 (63 deaths).
January January 1: A suicide bomber killed more than 30 people and injured 32 in an attack in Baghdad. The blast was targeted at mourners at the funeral of a Shia army officer, Nabil Hussein Jassim, who had been killed by a car bombing in central Baghdad three days earlier. January 7: A double bombing in Baghdad killed at least 14 people, including Riyadh Samarrai, leader of the US-backed Adhamiya Awakening group, which fights al-Qaeda in Sunni areas of the city. January 16: A female suicide bomber blew herself up near a Shia mosque in the town of Khan Bani Saad Diyala, killing 11 others. Eighteen people were wounded in the attack, near a market in the town, south of Baqubah in the Diyala Governorate. January 24: A suicide bomber killed a high-ranking police chief and two other police officers in Mosul at the site of an explosion that had killed at least 34 people and wounded at least 217 the day before. Brigadier General Salah Mohammed al-Jubouri, the director of police for Ninawa Governorate, was inspecting the scene of Wednesday's blast when gunmen ambushed his convoy.
February February 1: Two bombs exploded in Baghdad animal markets killing 99 people and wounding 200. The Iraqi government claimed that the bombs were carried by women and detonated remotely. February 24: A leader of a Sunni Awakening Council group, Sheikh Ibrahim Mutayri al-Mohammedi, was killed in a suicide bombing in Falluja. February 25: A man in a wheelchair blew himself up in a northern Iraqi police station, killing three National Police officers, including a commander.
March March 3: A pair of car bombings targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in Baghdad. March 6: Fifty-three people were killed and 125 were wounded in two bomb attacks in a Baghdad commercial district. March 10: A suicide bomber struck in central Baghdad killing 5 American soldiers on foot patrol, 3 other soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded in the Blast. March 13: An Iraqi woman detonated a suicide vest in a small crowd in the Kirkuk Province killing two Iraqi citizens and wounding six. One Soldier who sustained minor wounds was treated at the scene March 17: A female suicide bomber apparently targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 40 people and wounded at least 65 in Karbala. March 19: In Baquba, five people were killed and 16 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt in a public market. Another suicide bomb wounded 11 Iraqi soldiers and 3 civilians in Mosul. March 22: A roadside bomb blast struck an Iraqi police patrol in Kirkuk, killing a civilian and wounding nine people. March 23: 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber who drove a fuel tanker into an army base in Mosul and at least 40 people were injured. March 27: A car bomb explosion killed three people and wounded five others near a police patrol in central Baghdad. March 31: A suicide car bomber killed 5 US backed Sunni fighters at a checkpoint in Siniya, at least eight other people were injured.
April April 3: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing 7 people and wounding 12 (the US military claims 5 killed and 19 injured). April 4: A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on the funeral for a Sunni policeman in the province of Diyala, in the town of Saadiyah. April 11: Suicide bombings killed at least four people—three of them police. The first bombing was in Ramadi, the provincial capital of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province. At least three national police officers were killed. The second attack took place at a checkpoint about 20 km north of Baiji, the bomber and one other person a local Awakening Council were killed. Also, at least three people were killed in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel. April 14: Three people died in the nearby city of Tal Afar when a suicide attacker blew himself up at an Iraqi soldier's funeral. April 15: A wave of bombings blamed on Al-Qaeda in Iraq-jihadists shook Baghdad, Baquba, Ramadi and Mosul, killing at least 60 people. Nonetheless, the overall violence in Baquba has decreased by 80% since June 2007. In Baquba, as many as 40 people were killed and at least 75 more were wounded during a car bombing near the courthouse. A suicide bomber killed 15 people and injured 13 more outside a kebab restaurant in Ramadi. Five policemen were killed and four more were wounded during a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in the Hamidiya area of Ramadi. In Mosul, a double car bombing killed three people and wounded at least 16 people. In Baghdad, a car bomb targeting a police patrol killed four people and wounded 15 in a central neighborhood. April 17: A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded many others in a suicide attack on a crowd of mourners in Baquba, during the funeral of two members of a local group who had died fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq militants. April 18: A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol near Tikrit killing 1 US soldier and wounding 4 others. April 21: A female suicide bomber attacked a U.S.-allied militia post, killing four people and wounding five others in Baquba. April 22: A female suicide bomber killed six people and wounded a dozen others when she blew herself up north of Baghdad according to Iraqi police. A suicide car bomber at a checkpoint near Ramadi killed 2 U.S. Marines and wounded 3 more. Two policemen and 24 civilians were also wounded. A second car bombing, this one at a police station in the city, wounded 20 people, including women and policemen. In Jalawla, a female suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 17 at a police station. April 26: A series of co-ordinated bomb attacks has killed at least seven people and injured more than 20 in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. April 29: At least 9 people were killed and were 23 wounded in a bomb attack in central Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
May May 1: At least 35 people have been killed in a double suicide bombing in the Iraqi province of Diyala, officials say. At least 76 other people are said to have been injured. May 14: A suicide bomber killed 20 people and wounded dozens more when he blew himself up at a funeral west of Baghdad on Wednesday, there was no claim for responsibility but Iraqi police suspect al-Qaeda in Iraq. A teen aged girl blew herself up outside an Iraqi army post south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing one soldier, the U.S. military said. May 17: A female suicide bomber targeted a US-backed militia office in Baquba, killing one woman and wounding 16. May 26: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint guarded by Iraqi police and US-backed Sunni militia, killing four people including a policeman, two awakening council guards and a civilian. May 27: A car bombing in the city of Talafer, some 70 km west of Mosul, killed 4 people and injured 46. May 29: A suicide bomber killed 14 police recruits and two policemen in northern Iraq. 17 others were killed and 80 were wounded in suicide bombings that day.
June June 1: At least two people were killed and five others wounded in a car bomb explosion at a parking lot near the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad. June 2: A suicide bomber killed at least five policemen and four civilians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and wounded 46. Also 1 US soldier was killed and 4 wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted their check point near Fallujah.Suicide bomber kills nine in Iraqi city of Mosul/middleeast/news/1soldierkilled4othersinjured,June 2 June 4: A suicide bomber drove a truck towards the house of police Brigadier-General Nadhim Taeih, in northern Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 50.
June 7: An Air Force convoy was struck by three separate Russian 152 mm artillery rounds east of Baghdad on ASR Detroit. Out of the 10 Airmen involved, five received purple hearts. The USAF RED HORSE unit remained engaged in combat for over 12 hours receiving support from Army Apache's, M109 Howitzers, and the mobilization of FOB Hammer to recover the crippled convoy. The USAF noted this incident to be the greatest combined monetary loss of convoy equipment in the branches short history. June 7: A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people. June 8: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a patrol base killing one U.S. soldier, wounding 18 others in al-Rashad, 15 miles southwest of the city of Kirkuk. June 9: A car bomb, targeting an Iraqi police checkpoint near a shopping centre in Baghdad's district of Karada killed 1 policeman, 4 civilians and injured 10 people. Bombings in Diyala killed 1 and injured 7. June 10: The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe was blown up in a car bomb explosion in the town of Al-Awja. June 15: In Mosul, a suicide car bombing killed a policeman and wounded six people. June 17: A car bomb explosion at a busy bus stop in northern Baghdad killed 51 people and injured 75. The Death toll later went up to 63. June 20: A suicide car bomb attacked a police checkpoint in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, killing 5 policemen. June 22: At least 15 people were killed by a female suicide bomber in the northern Iraqi city of Baquba. The attack was blamed on al-Qaeda. June 24: An overnight suicide car bomb explosion near a police station in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, killed two people and wounded more than 70 others. June 25: Iraqi police say a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive belt inside the municipal council headquarters in a town west of Baghdad during a meeting of tribal sheikhs, at least seven people were killed in the blast, including some sheikhs and the town's administrative director. June 26: At least 38 people were killed in two massive bomb attacks, 20 of them were killed by a suicide bomber as they held an anti-al Qaeda meeting. The other 18 were killed in a car-bombing in Mosul, which also injured 80. June 27: In al-Anbar province a suicide bombing killed 3 U.S. soldiers and injured another 2, including 20 people and anti-al Qaeda Sheikhs. al-Qaeda in Iraq later claimed responsibility. June 29:A suicide car bomber killed seven policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in northern Iraq's Salahuddin province.
July July 1: A car bomb hit an Iraqi police patrol in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, killing a civilian and injuring six. July 6: A car bomb killed 4 and wounded 16 in Baghdad.Car bomb kills 4, wounds 16 in Iraq, July 6, 2008 Later the death toll rose to 6 killed (and 14 wounded). July 7: A female suicide bomber kills 9 and injures 12 in Baquba. July 8: Two car bombings in Fallujah kill 3 policemen and a civilian.Iraq bomb kills 3 police officers, civilian, July 9, 2008 July 9: A suicide car bomber in targeting soldiers in northern Iraq on Wednesday killed five civilians and wounded 21.5 killed in Iraq suicide bombing, July 9, 2008 July 10: A suicide car bomb attacked an Iraqi army patrol in western Baghdad on Thursday, killing two civilians and wounding 13 people. July 15: At least five people were killed and 54 others wounded in a suicide attack near an Iraqi army base north of Baghdad. In Baquba there were 2 suicide bombings and in total 23 people were killed and 70 injured. The bombings targeted Iraqi Army recruits. Later the death toll there rose to 28 people killed (and 64 injured) A car-bombing in Mosul wounded 6 people.Car bomb wounds six Iraqis in N Iraq, July 15, 2008 July 16: In Mosul a car bomb killed 16 and wounded 94.