Assaults On Minority Groups Since 2003
- In total 40 churches have been bombed since June 26, 2004
- August 10, 2009: Truck bombs kill at least 28 people in the Shabak village of Khazna, in Nineveh governorate
- June 20, 2009: Truck bomb kills at least 70 people in a Turkmen village near Kirkuk
- Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was kidnapped on February 23, 2008. Three of his companions were also murdered during the kidnapping. His body was found in March and an Iraqi Al-Qaeda leader, Ahmed Ali Ahmed, known as Abu Omar, was sentenced to death in May for this crime.
- January 9, 2008, 2 churches bombed in Kirkuk.
- January 6, 2008, 7 churches bombed: three Chaldean and Assyrian churches in Mosul and four in Baghdad.
- August 14, 2007, Bombing of Qahtaniya and Jazeera: Killed 796 people and wounded 1,562, targetting the Yazidi minority.
- June 4, 2007, 2 churches attacked, Ragheed Ganni, a priest, and three men were shot dead in church.
- October 2006, Orthodox priest, Boulos Iskander, kidnapped in Mosul and subsequently beheaded, and his arms and legs were cut off.
- January 29, 2006, 4 churches bombed.
- January 2005, Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Basile Georges Casmoussa, kidnapped on January 17 and released.
- December 7, 2004, 2 churches bombed.
- November 8, 2004, 1 church bombed.
- October 16, 2004, 5 churches bombed.
- September 10 and 11th, 2004, 2 churches bombed.
- August 1, 2004, 5 Assyrian and 1 Armenian churches bombed.
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