January 2017 Sadr City bombings
Series of suicide car bombings
Baghdad
Baghdad (Iraq)
Attack type
ISIS- v
- t
- e
War in Iraq
(2013–2017)
(2013–2017)
Battles and operations
- 1st Anbar
- 1st Fallujah
- 1st Northern Iraq
- 1st Mosul
- Badush prison
- Camp Speicher
- 1st Kirkuk
- 2nd Northern Iraq
- Musab bin Umair mosque
- Suq al-Ghazi
- Saqlawiyah
- 1st Hīt
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- Salahuddin
- 1st Baiji
- Siege of Amirli
- 1st Tikrit
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- 3rd Baiji
- Dhuluiya
- 2nd Tikrit
- 1st Ramadi
- 2nd Sinjar
- 2nd Mosul
- 2nd Kirkuk
- Al-Karmah
- 2nd Anbar
- 2nd Ramadi
- 2nd Fallujah
- 2nd Hīt
- Ar-Rutbah
- 3rd Fallujah
- 3rd Sinjar
- Nineveh Plains offensive
- Shirqat offensive
- 3rd Mosul
- 4th Mosul
- Mosul airstrike
- Western Nineveh
- 3rd Kirkuk
- Hamam al-Alil
- 4th Sinjar
- Turkish Sinjar airstrike
- Tal Afar
- Western Anbar
- Hawija
- Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
- 4th Kirkuk
- Western Iraq
Major insurgent attacks
- 1st Hillah
- 1st Baghdad
- Khan Bani Saad
- 2nd Baghdad
- Sharaban
- Ramadi
- Mosul
- 3rd Baghdad
- Miqdadiyah
- 2nd Hillah
- Iskandariya
- 4th Baghdad
- Samawa
- 5th Baghdad
- 1st Balad
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- 6th Baghdad
- 7th Baghdad
- 2nd Balad
- 8th Baghdad
- 9th Baghdad
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- 11th Baghdad
- Tikrit
- 12th Baghdad
- Nasiriyah
Foreign interventions
- Iranian-led intervention
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- Inherent Resolve
- Shader
- Okra
- Chammal
- Impact
IS genocide of minorities
IS war crimes
- Mosul executions
- Chemical weapons
Timeline
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
On January 2, 2017, at least three suicide car bombings took place in a Shia Muslim eastern district of Sadr City, as well as behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals, killing 56 people and injuring more than 120 others. Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, had informed in a news conference that the suicide bombing, in Sadr City's busy market, was operated by the suicide bomber who detonated a vehicle with explosives. The bomber had pretended to hire day labourers in the market; once labourers gathered near the vehicle, the vehicle was detonated by him.[1] The French President François Hollande was in the city during the attacks.[2][3]
Responsibility
The jihadist group Islamic State claimed the responsibility of attacks, with a targeted attack on a "gathering of Shia".[4]
References
- ^ a b "Suicide Bombing in Baghdad Kills at Least 36". The New York Times. 2 January 2017. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ^ "Série d'attentats suicides à Bagdad, au moins 71 morts". Conflits-FR. 2017-01-02. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
- ^ "UPDATED: Islamic State claims blast in Baghdad's Sadr City, 2 bombs ensue". Iraqi News. 2 January 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ^ "IS conflict: Baghdad suicide car bomb blast kills 35". BBC News. 2 January 2017. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
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