// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 2012 in Iraq a bad year for clocks? It had a lot of Baghdad timing issues.
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The following lists events in 2012 in Iraq.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Jalal Talabani[1]
- Prime Minister: Nouri al-Maliki[2]
- Vice President: Khodair al-Khozaei[3][4] Tariq al-Hashimi (until September 10)
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 5 – A series of explosions occur in mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhoods of Baghdad and in the city of Nasiriyah, with at least 73 killed and 149 wounded.
- January 6 – Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia that carried out deadly attacks on U.S. troops agrees to lay down its arms and join the political process in Iraq.
- January 14 – A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in Basra.
- January 15 – Insurgents trigger bombs and storm a police station in Ramadi, with six people reportedly killed and 14 injured.
February
[edit]- February 12 – Turkish warplanes carry out strikes against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq.
- February 19 – A suicide bomber kills at least 19 officers and cadets and injures 26 outside an Iraqi police academy in northeastern Baghdad.
- February 23 – A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 60 killed and more than 200 injured.
March
[edit]- March 5 – Gunmen disguised as police kill 27 members of Iraq's security forces in the town of Haditha.
- March 12 – Robbers kill at least 9 people and injure 14 in a jewelry heist in East Baghdad.
- March 20 – At least 50 are killed and more than 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq.
- March 21 – Iraq is terrorised by unconfirmed reports of extremists crushing the skulls of "emos" with blocks of cement.
April
[edit]- April 3 – Qatar rejects Iraq's demand to hand over fugitive Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi.
- April 19 – At least 36 people are killed and almost 150 others are injured in bombings in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Samarra.[5]
- April 26 – At least 10 killed and 15 injured in two explosions at a popular coffee shop in the Diyala province. [5]
May
[edit]- May 8 – National Foundation Congress is founded.[6]
- May 26 – Ten killed and at least ten others injured in a series of attacks targeting Iraqi military patrols in Al-Suwaira, Mosul and east of Baqubah.[7]
June
[edit]- June 13 – ِA series of 42 attacks across Iraqi cities results in the death of 72 people and over 250 injured.[8]
July
[edit]August
[edit]September
[edit]October
[edit]November
[edit]December
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- March 5 – Mohammad Shafar, Awakening movement leader.
- March 23 – Naji Talib, politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 1966 to 1967.[9]
- June 7 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, military officer and Saddam Hussein's personal secretary.[10]
- September 19 – Behnam Abu Alsoof, archaeologist and historian.(b.1931)[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ McDonald, Mark (October 3, 2017). "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times.
- ↑ Bush Says New Iraqi Government a "Decisive Break with the Past"
- ↑ "Iraqi parliament approves three vice presidents - People's Daily Online". en.people.cn. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
- ↑ "One of Iraq's vice presidents resigns". USATODAY.COM.
- 1 2 "Deadly bombings strike Iraq's Diyala province". Al Jazeera. Retrieved March 23, 2026.
- ↑ "Jonathan Steele: The Iraqi leader seeking a peaceful path to liberation". TheGuardian.com. July 16, 2004.
- ↑ "قتلى وجرحى بهجمات في العراق". الجزيرة نت (in Arabic). Retrieved March 27, 2026.
- ↑ "72 قتيلا بتفجيرات العراق وواشنطن تندد". الجزيرة نت (in Arabic). Retrieved July 3, 2026.
- ↑ ب), بغداد (ا ف (March 24, 2012). "وفاة رئيس الوزراء العراقى الأسبق ناجى طالب". اليوم السابع (in Arabic). Retrieved July 1, 2026.
- ↑ "Official: Saddam Hussein's secretary executed - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. June 7, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2026.
- ↑ journals.cambridge.org
