2012 in Iraq

2012
in
Iraq

Decades:
See also:Other events of 2012
List of years in Iraq

The following lists events in 2012 in Iraq.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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  • January 5 – A series of explosions occur in mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhoods of Baghdad and in the city of Nasiriyah, with at least 73 killed and 149 wounded.
  • January 6 – Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia that carried out deadly attacks on U.S. troops agrees to lay down its arms and join the political process in Iraq.
  • January 14 – A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in Basra.
  • January 15 – Insurgents trigger bombs and storm a police station in Ramadi, with six people reportedly killed and 14 injured.

February

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  • February 12 – Turkish warplanes carry out strikes against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq.
  • February 19 – A suicide bomber kills at least 19 officers and cadets and injures 26 outside an Iraqi police academy in northeastern Baghdad.
  • February 23 – A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 60 killed and more than 200 injured.

March

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  • March 5 – Gunmen disguised as police kill 27 members of Iraq's security forces in the town of Haditha.
  • March 12 – Robbers kill at least 9 people and injure 14 in a jewelry heist in East Baghdad.
  • March 20 – At least 50 are killed and more than 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq.
  • March 21 – Iraq is terrorised by unconfirmed reports of extremists crushing the skulls of "emos" with blocks of cement.

April

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  • April 3 – Qatar rejects Iraq's demand to hand over fugitive Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi.
  • April 19 – At least 33 people are killed and dozens more are injured in bombings in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Samarra in Iraq's worst violence in weeks.

May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ McDonald, Mark (October 3, 2017). "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Bush Says New Iraqi Government a "Decisive Break with the Past"
  3. ^ "Iraqi parliament approves three vice presidents - People's Daily Online". en.people.cn. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  4. ^ "One of Iraq's vice presidents resigns". USATODAY.COM.
  5. ^ "Jonathan Steele: The Iraqi leader seeking a peaceful path to liberation". TheGuardian.com. July 16, 2004.