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Siege of Baghdad
1258 Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate
National Museum of Iraq
historical museum in Baghdad

Farhud
The '''''' () was a pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941 (coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot), immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots occurred in a power vacuum that followed the collapse of the pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi government of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani while the city was in a state of instability. The violence came immediately after the rapid defeat of Rashid Ali by British forces, whose earlier coup had generated a short period of national euphoria, and was fueled by allegations that Iraqi Jews h
Simele massacre
massacre by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Iraq
Battle of Baghdad
2003 major battle of the Iraq War
destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State
monuments destroyed by the Islamic State
Basrah Museum
museum in Basrah
Museum of the Bible
history museum in Washington DC, United States
Wahhabi sack of Karbala
1802 sack of a city
Siege of Pirisabora
siege
Sack of Basra
923 sack
1991 uprising in Sulaymaniyah
part of the Iraqi uprisings following the Gulf War
Siege of Maiozamalcha
Roman Siege
Siege of Amirli
2014 siege in Iraq
Kirkuk massacre
1959 massacre in Iraq
1924 Kirkuk massacre
1924 massacre in Iraq