36case filesUpdated Jul 16, 2026
Casepin holds 36 case files in Iraq. By legal status, 19 marked unsolved and 17 marked solved.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenCamp Justice, Kazimain, Baghdad, Iraq · 2006
Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, was executed by hanging on 30 December 2006 after being convicted of crimes against humanity for the 1982 Dujail massacre, in which 148 Iraqi Shi'ites were killed.
Credit: According to Fox News , this video was posted on the website for Muntada al-Ansar on May…Editorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenBaghdad, Iraq · 2004
Nick Berg, an American radio-tower repairman working in Iraq, disappeared in April 2004 and was found decapitated in Baghdad in May 2004; a video released by an Islamist militant group showed his killing, which it framed as retaliation for the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse.
UNSOLVEDListenBaghdad, Iraq · 2012
In early 2012, Iraqi teenage boys associated with the "emo" subculture were targeted and beaten to death with cement blocks in Baghdad, in a campaign linked to paramilitary groups and allegedly aided by security forces; death toll estimates ranged from 6 to as high as 100.
Near Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq · 2020
On 3 January 2020, Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, ordered by President Donald Trump, along with nine others including Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Tayaran Square, Baghdad, Iraq · 2021
On 21 January 2021, two suicide bombers detonated explosives at a crowded open-air clothing market in Tayaran Square, central Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 110. ISIL claimed responsibility, marking the Iraqi capital's first terrorist attack since 2019.
Credit: Pfc. Justin Naylor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public AffairsPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenTaza, near Kirkuk, Iraq · 2009
A truck/vehicle bombing near a mosque in Taza, a predominantly Shia Turkmen town near Kirkuk, Iraq, killed at least 73 people and injured over 200 on 20 June 2009, in one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since March 2008.
Credit: Al Jazeera EnglishCC BY-SA 2.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenBaqubah, Diyala Governorate, Iraq · 2010
On 3 March 2010, three bombings struck Baqubah, Iraq, days before national elections, killing at least 33 people and injuring 55 others, including ten policemen and a local health official.
Credit: U.S. Government copyright Photographed by an unidentified member of the United States…Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenAbu Ghraib prison, Iraq · 2003
Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi detainee, died in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison on November 4, 2003, after being suspended by his wrists with his hands cuffed behind his back during a CIA interrogation. A military autopsy ruled the death a homicide; no criminal charges were ever brought.
Credit: CEphoto, Uwe AranasCC BY-SA 3.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenNasiriyah, Iraq · 2003
A suicide truck bombing struck the Italian Carabinieri MSU headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on 12 November 2003, killing 18 Italian servicemembers, an Italian civilian, and 9 Iraqi civilians in the deadliest attack on Italian forces since World War II.
Credit: The U.S. ArmyPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenAl Hillah, Iraq · 2005
A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq, killed 127 people on February 28, 2005, most of them men waiting to join the Iraqi police.
The files run from 1994 to 2021. The 2000s hold the most, with 19 files. The oldest is Death of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, from 1994.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (9), kidnapping and abduction cases (4) and mass shooting cases (2).
3 files of the 36 have coverage attached: 14 videos, podcasts and documentaries. The most covered is Execution of Saddam Hussein, with 5 items to watch or hear.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Baghdad Blast Wall (30438139501) — Credit: David Stanley from Nanaimo, CanadaCC BY 2.0Source
Qasem Soleimani in Syrian Desert (June 2017) — Credit: Tasnim News AgencyCC BY 4.0Source
Saddam Hussein at trial, July 2004 — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
File:NickBergandFiveMen.JPG — Credit: According to Fox News , this video was posted on the website for Muntada al-Ansar on May…Editorial useSource
US Army 51775 Daniel Enders, the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Iraq, visits a home damaged by a bomb blast in the city of Taza, Iraq, Sept. 8. This home will soon be repaired with hel — Credit: Pfc. Justin Naylor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public AffairsPublic domainSource
Scenes from Baquba suicide bombing - Flickr - Al Jazeera English (3) — Credit: Al Jazeera EnglishCC BY-SA 2.0Source
File:Body of Manadel al-Jamadi, Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq - 200311.jpg — Credit: U.S. Government copyright Photographed by an unidentified member of the United States…Public domainSource
Bologna Memorial 2003NasiriyahBombing — Credit: CEphoto, Uwe AranasCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Flickr - The U.S. Army - www.Army.mil (343) — Credit: The U.S. ArmyPublic domainSource
Baghdadhoteliraq — Credit: Birdshot at English WikipediaPublic domainSource
Green Zone Café debris — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
IraqAlMuthannaCC BY-SA 3.0Source
36. By status: 19 unsolved and 17 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Death of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, from 1994. Open the file
Execution of Saddam Hussein, with 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 16, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
