August 2004: Iraq's Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr launches a rebellion against U.S. troops in Najaf. Hundreds of his fighters are killed before a ceasefire is announced.
November 2004: More than 10,000 U.S. soldiers and 2,000 Iraqi troops launch a massive assault on the rebel city of Fallujah.
Feb. 22, 2006 - Destruction of Shiite shrine in Samarra sparks widespread sectarian violence, raising fears of civil war.
June 7, 2006 - U.S. aircraft kill al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Nov. 23, 2006 - Amid widening civil strife, six car bombs in different parts of the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad kill 202 people.
March 27, 2007 - A truck bomb explodes in Tal Afar, close to the northern city of Mosul, killing 152 people.
April 18, 2007 - Multiple car bombings kill 191 people around Baghdad. At the Sadriya market, one bomb alone kills 140 people.
Aug. 14, 2007 - Truck bombings against the minority Yazidi community in northern Iraq kill 411 people, the government says. The bombings are the deadliest militant attacks in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion.
Sept. 13, 2007 - Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Anbar province, is killed in a bomb attack.
Feb. 21, 2008 - Thousands of Turkish troops cross into northern Iraq, killing 242 out of 300 targeted PKK rebels in an eight-day offensive.
March 6, 2008 - Two bombs explode in Baghdad's mainly Shiite Karrada district, killing at least 68 people. Another 120 were wounded in the blasts.
March 24, 2008: The number of U.S. military dead passes the 4,000 mark. |
