On 27 January 2016, up to a dozen car bombs were set off in the city of
Ramadi
Ramadi ( ar, ٱلرَّمَادِي ''Ar-Ramādī''; also formerly rendered as ''Rumadiyah'' or ''Rumadiya'') is a city in central Iraq, about west of Baghdad and west of Fallujah. It is the capital and largest city of Al Anbar Governorate whi ...
, attacking the 10th Iraqi army division. The attack killed 55 Iraqi soldiers and pro-government tribal fighters, wounding an unknown number as well. The
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
An Islamic state is a State (polity), state that has a form of government based on sharia, Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical Polity, polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a t ...
claimed responsibility for the attack.
See also
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List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016
This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2016, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. List of ongoing milit ...
References
2016 murders in Iraq
21st-century mass murder in Iraq
ISIL terrorist incidents in Iraq
Car and truck bombings in Iraq
Mass murder in 2016
Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2016
January 2016 crimes in Asia
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2016
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