Baghdad \Deadly bombings

Some deadly bombings in Baghdad this year:

Tuesday: A car bomb tears through a market area in Hurriyah, a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing at least 51 people.

May 1: A bomb-rigged parked car explodes as a U.S. patrol is passing through a crowded commercial area in eastern Baghdad, leaving a U.S. soldier and at least nine Iraqis dead.

March 13: A parked car explodes near a bridge in Tahrir Square, killing 18 people.

March 6: Two bombs go off within minutes of each other in Karradah, a Baghdad commercial district, killing at least 68 people.

March 3: One suicide car bomb kills at least 22 people in central Baghdad’s Bab al-Mudham area. Another car bomb in the city’s eastern Zayouna neighborhood kills two.

Feb. 11: Twin car bombs target a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders, killing at least 22 civilians.

Feb. 1: Two female suicide bombers with a history of psychiatric treatment kill almost 100 people at two pet markets in central Baghdad.

Jan. 7: The head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group is killed in a double suicide bombing that claims at least 11 other lives.

Jan. 1: At least 36 are killed in the deadliest bombing in Baghdad since August 2007 when a bomber detonates his explosives amid men gathered in the eastern Zayouna neighborhood, a mixed Shiite and Sunni district, for the funeral of a retired Iraqi Army officer.

Source: Associated Press