2006: 300 suicide bombings
January 1: Two suicide car bombs kill one Iraqi soldier and wound 24 others north of Baghdad.[217]
January 2: A suicide bomber kills seven people on a bus in Baquba.[218]
January 4: A suicide bomber struck a Shiite funeral, killing 32 and wounding 40.[219] Suicide bomber kills about 30 people and wounded dozens during a Shiite Muslim funeral at Miqdadiya.[220]
January 5: A suicide bomber in Kerbala detonated an explosive belt laced with ballbearings and a grenade, killing 51 and wounding 138. A suicide bomber in Ramadi blew himself up near a group of police and Army recruits, killed more than 60 and wounded around 70. Two other suicide car bombs explode in Baghdad.[221][222]
January 6: A suicide bomber targeted an Interior Ministry patrol, and one policeman was killed in the explosion which wounded seven others.[223]
January 9: Two suicide bombers disguised as police infiltrated the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad and blow themselves up killing 29.[224]
January 20: A suicide car bomber killed two U.S. soldiers in Haqlaniyah.[225][226][227]
January 23: A suicide bomber kills three people and injures seven others near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad.[228]
February 14: A suicide car bomber killed two U.S. marines near Qaim.[229]
March 10: A suicide truck bomber kills eight and wounds 11 at a checkpoint in Falluja.[230]
March 14: A suicide bombing in Northern Iraq killed at least one person: America security contractor Chaz Benjamin Crawford.[116]
March 27: A suicide bomber kills 30 to 40 people at a security-forces recruitment center in northern Iraq[231]
March 29: Two suicide bombers on a mini-bus filled with explosives attempted to attack a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad, but the bus exploded prematurely when police opened fire on it, wounding 11 policemen and a female bystander.[232]
March 30: A suicide car bomber rammed a police convoy in west Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighborhood, killing one police commando and wounding three others. Two civilians also were hurt.[233]
April 3: Ten die and 38 are wounded during a suicide truck bomb attack near a Shiite mosque in northeastern Baghdad[234]
April 7: Two or three suicide bombers target the Baratha mosque in Baghdad, killing 85 people and wounding 160.[235][236][237]
April 11: A suicide bomber kills an American soldier in Raweh.[238]
April 17: A suicide bomber attacked a market in the town of Mahmudiya killing at least 13 people and wounding 19.[239] Two or three suicide car bombers targeted the Government Center in Ramadi, wounding one U.S. Marine.[240][241]
May 1: A suicide bomber attacked a US army patrol killing one Iraqi civilian and wounding two others in Iskandariya south of Baghdad.[242]
May 2: Ten people die and six are injured when a suicide bomber explodes near a convoy carrying the governor of Anbar in central Ramadi.[243]
May 3: Suicide bomber kills 16 and wounds 25 at a police recruitment center in Falluja.[244]
May 4: A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of police officers and civilians outside the civil court building in Baghdad.[245]
May 6: Suicide bomber kills three Iraqi soldiers at a base in Tikrit.[246]
May 7: Suicide bomber kills five and wounds 18 in Karbala.[247]A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol as it left a base in the neighborhood of Azamiyah in Baghdad killing 10 people and wounding 15, most were Iraqi soldiers.[248]A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol as it left a base in the neighborhood of Azamiyah in Baghdad killing 10 people and wounding 15, most were Iraqi soldiers.[249]
May 9: A suicide car bombing kills 22 and wounds 134 in Tal Afar.[250]
May 14: A double suicide car bomb attack outside the Baghdad airport, near the Victory Base checkpoint, killing 14 people and wounding six others.[251]
May 20: A suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Al-Qaim, killing five people and wounding ten. Victims were both civilians and policemen.[252]
May 21: A suicide bomber kills 13 and wounds 18 in a restaurant in central Baghdad.[253]
May 29: A suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol in Baghdad wounding two police and killing one.[254]
May 30: A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded 36 in Hilla.[255]
June 3: A suicide bomber attacked a market in Basra, killing 28 people and wounding 62 others.[256]
June 11: A suicide car bomb explodes at an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Baquba, killing three Iraqi soldiers and wounding six.[citation needed]
June 12: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gas station in Tal Afar killing four civilians and wounding more than 40.[257]
June 13: As many as five suicide attacks hit Kirkuk on this day. In the central Quraya neighbourhood, a suicide car bomber struck the house of a senior police officer, Colonel Taher Salah al-Din, seriously wounding him and killing one of his bodyguards. Shortly afterwards, a suicide bomber in a car was shot by guards as he tried to attack Kirkuk's police headquarters. He blew himself up, killing two policemen. Across town a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, wounding two people. A second suicide car bomber then targeted the same building but was shot and killed by guards before he could detonate his bomb. Another suicide bomber struck a security building in the Wasit neighbourhood, wounding four civilians.[258][259]
June 14: Police shot and killed a suicide bomber as he tried to attack a police checkpoint in Kirkuk.[260]
June 16: A suicide bomber slips into a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 11 and wounding 25 during Friday prayers.[261]
June 17: A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a police checkpoint in Mahmoudiya, killing four people and injuring 15.[262]
June 19: A suicide bomber killed four civilians and wounded 10 in an attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in central Baghdad.[263]
June 20: A suicide bomber kills two and injures two in a senior citizens' home in Basra.[264]
June 24: A suicide bomber in Dhuluyia killed five Iraqi policemen.[265]
June 25: A suicide bomber killed a police commando and wounded nine people in an attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad's.[266]
June 26: Two Iraqi police commandos die and four people are injured when a suicide bomber explodes at a military checkpoint in western Baghdad.[267]
June 27: A suicide bomber attacked a gas station in Kirkuk killing at least three people and wounding 17.[268]
June 28: A suicide car bomber attacked a Sunni mosque, near a market in Baqubah, killing three people.[269]
June 29: A suicide car bomber kills five and wounds at least 31 during a wake for an Iraqi soldier in Kirkuk.[270][271]