Mass murders in Baghdad

1258 Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate

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

public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party by Saddam Hussein

military aerial bombing in Iraq

Iraqi robber and serial killer