Following is a list of major attacks in Iraq over the past year:

2004

- July 18: At least 11 people are killed in US air strikes on Fallujah, a suspected Zarqawi hideout.

- July 17: Six people are killed in two suicide car bombings, one targeting Justice Minister Malek Dohan Hassan, who escaped unharmed, and purportedly claimed by Zarqawi.

- July 15: Ten people, including three policemen, are killed in a car bomb attack outside a police station in Haditha, west of Baghdad.

- July 8: Five US soldiers and two Iraqi national guardsmen are killed in a massive mortar attack that flattened national guard headquarters in Samarra.

- July 6: At least nine people are killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Khales, near the restive town of Baquba.

- July 5: US warplane bombs a house in Fallujah, killing 12 people.

- June 26: Twenty-three are killed in a car bomb attack in Hilla, south of Baghdad.

- June 24: Insurgents linked with Zarqawi unleash a wave of coordinated attacks across Iraq killing more than 100 people and wounding some 300.

- June 17: A suicide car bomber rams into a queue of army recruits in Baghdad killing 35 and wounding 140. Six members of the US-trained civil defence force are killed in another bombing north of Baghdad.

- June 14: A suicide bombing in Baghdad kills 13 people, including five foreigners, in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda linked group.

- 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.

- May 17: The head of the old Governing Council, Ezzedine Salim, is killed in a car bombing.

- May 11: A web site close to Al-Qaeda posts a video showing the beheading of US national Nicholas Berg.

- April 21: Bomb attacks targeting police stations around Basra in southern Iraq kill at least 68 people, mostly policemen and schoolchildren.

- 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.

- 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 Hussein.

- 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.

- Feb 14: At least 23 Iraqi police and four attackers are killed in simultaneous assaults on a police station and the Iraqi civil defence headquarters in Fallujah.

- Feb 11: Forty-seven Iraqis die in a suicide attack outside an army recruitment centre in Baghdad.

- Feb 10: At least 55 people are killed in a suspected suicide car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of 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.

- Jan 18: At least 25 people, mainly Iraqis, are killed and 130 wounded in a suicide car bombing outside the US headquarters in Baghdad.

2003

- 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.

- 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 24: A suicide bombing kills five, including the bomber, and wounds 101 at interior ministry offices in Arbil.

- Dec 14: An explosion at Khaldiya police station in western Iraq kills 16 policemen and two civilians, including a seven-year-old girl, the day after the capture of former president Saddam Hussein.

- 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.

- Nov 22: At least 18 Iraqis are killed in twin suicide bombings on police stations north of Baghdad.

- Nov 15: Two Black Hawk helicopters collide over the northern city of Mosul after reportedly coming under fire, killing 17 US soldiers.

- 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

- Nov 2: A Chinook helicopter carrying US troops is shot down by a missile near Fallujah, killing 16 soldiers.

- 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.

- Oct 26: Rockets pound Baghdad's Rashid Hotel where US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is staying, killing a soldier.

- 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.

- Aug 19: A truck bomb at UN headquarters in Baghdad kills 22 people, including UN Iraq envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.

- Aug 11: Six Iraqi prisoners die when the Abu Gharib prison west of Baghdad comes under mortar fire.

- Aug 7: A car bomb outside the Jordanian mission in Baghdad kills at least 14 people.

- June 24: Six British military police are killed in the southern Shiite town of Al-Majar Al-Kabir in a gunbattle with residents.

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