Looting in Iraq

1258 Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate

historical museum in Baghdad

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

massacre by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Iraq

2003 major battle of the Iraq War

monuments destroyed by the Islamic State

museum in Basrah

history museum in Washington DC, United States

1802 sack of a city

siege

923 sack

part of the Iraqi uprisings following the Gulf War

Roman Siege

2014 siege in Iraq

1959 massacre in Iraq

1924 massacre in Iraq