The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the area of modern Iraq, and does not include collateral damage, especially from raids and airstrikes, which were due to mistaken identity or unfortunately getting caught in the line of fire.

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Date	City	Attack	Deaths	(Alleged) Perpetrator	Notes	Source
27 January 1969	Baghdad	1969 Baghdad hangings	14	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	Iraqi authorities hanged 14 Iraqis for allegedly spying for Israel during a public execution in Baghdad; nine were Jewish, three were Muslim and two were Christian	[16]
16 September 1969	Surya	Surya massacre	47	Ba'athist regime	The Iraqi military headed by Lieutenant Abdul Karim al-Jahayshee massacred 47 people in the Assyrian village of Soriya (Ṣawriyā) including the Chaldean priest Ḥannā Yaʻqūb Qāshā and left 22 wounded.	[17][18][19]

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• 1975, Najaf purges. Over 100 Shi’ite clerics killed and 1250 arrested.
• February 5, 1977, Safar uprising. Despite brutally enforced ban on public religiousness, thousands of people defy it and head to Karbala during the Arba'een Pilgrimage. Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested by the regime.
• 1978–1979 Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in North Iraq; 2,500^[20] to 12,500^[20]
• 50,000 to 70,000 Shi'a, and 50,000 opposition activists, communists, Kurds and other minorities disappeared into Iraqi prisons in the 1980s^[21]
• May 7, 1980, Persecution of Feyli Kurds under Saddam Hussein, Nationwide; 15,000^[22][23]–25,000^[24][25] Feyli Kurds were targeted genocide^[26] via exportation^[27] and forced relocations.^[28]
• July 8, 1982, Dujail Massacre, Dujail; 148 deaths.
• May 10, 1983. Saddam ordered further arrest of all Hakim family. Hundreds were killed and buried in mass graves.
• In July and August 1983, on the orders of President Saddam Hussein^[29] over 8,000 men and boys of the Barzani Kurds, some as young as 13, were killed by the Ba'athist Iraq.^[30][31][32]
• In August 1996, the Erbil massacre which resulted the death of 48 Iraqi Turkmen.^[33]
• 1984, Abu Ghraib prison massacre, Baghdad Governorate; 4,000 executed in purge^[34]
• 1986–1989, Anfal genocide, Nationwide: 50,000^[35]-182,000^[36] Kurds and other Iraqi minorities killed during Iran–Iraq War.
• March 16, 1988, Halabja poison gas attack, Halabja: 5,000+ deaths; Iraqi government used chemical weapons on Kurdish town; condemned as an act of genocide (The aforementioned Anfal genocide).
• March 1 – April 5, 1991 Iraqi uprisings, Nationwide: 25,000–180,000 killed (mostly civilians).^[37][38][39]

• August 1, 2004, 2004 Iraq churches attacks, Baghdad and Mosul; 12 died, 71 injured.
• October 24, 2004 Massacre of New Iraqi Army recruits by Sunni insurgents, 49 killed.^[40]
• November 19, 2005 Haditha killings, Haditha 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by United States Marines.
• March 12, 2006 Mahmudiyah killings on by U.S. Army soldiers, 4 killed.
• March 15, 2006, the Ishaqi incident, where four women and five children, one aged five months were allegedly killed by U.S. Forces. This was denied by the Americans, who said a building collapsed during a firefight, killing four people—a suspect, two women and a child.^[41]
• March 2006, US troops killed 4 Iraq prisoners.^[42]
• Between May 7 and 8, 2006, 51 bodies were found in Baghdad, all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head and abdomen.^[43]
• July 9, 2006, Hay al Jihad massacre on by Shia militia, 40 killed.
• April 23, 2007, 2007 Mosul massacre, Mosul; 23 died; the murders were considered to be a reprisal for the honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl.
• On April 17, 2007, 51 bodies of Iraqi civilians and military personnel, who were killed in the previous two years, were found in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
• June 29, 2007, Al Ahamir Massacre, Al Ahamir, 10-14 Iraqi civilians were killed by Al Qaeda.
• On June 30, 2007, 35 to 40 bodies were recovered from a recently dug mass grave in the town of Ferris, south of Fallujah, most likely victims of sectarian violence.
• July 16, 2007, massacre of Shiite villagers in a village in Diyala province on by Sunni insurgents, 29 killed.^[44]
• September 16, 2007, Nisour Square massacre, Baghdad: Blackwater Baghdad shootings by a private military company, 17 killed. The private military company, Blackwater Security Consulting, shot at Iraqi civilians killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad while escorting a US embassy convoy.
• Following the conclusion of the 2007 Diyala province military campaign dozens of mass graves were found. It is unclear who was responsible although Al-Qaeda is suspected.
• April 4, 2010, insurgents dressed as US and Iraqi soldiers killed 25 people including 5 women in a village south of Baghdad. They were linked to the Awakening movement. They were handcuffed and shot in the head or chest. Seven were found alive in handcuffs. Major General Qassim Atta spokesman for the Iraqi security forces' Baghdad operations said Al-Qaeda in Iraq was behind this.^[45][46]
• October 31, 2010, Baghdad church attack, Baghdad; 58 died; Islamic State of Iraq attacked a Catholic church.
• April 8, 2011, Camp Ashraf raid, Camp Ashraf; 34 unarmed members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran were killed by Iraqi security forces. 300+ injured.
• March 2012, Emo killings by terrorists in Baghdad.^[47]
• 2013 Camp Ashraf massacre that killed 52 people by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on September 1, 2013.^[48]
• June 10, 2004, Badush prison massacre that killed 670 by the Islamic State of Iraq.^[49]
• June 10, 2014 – August 8, 2015, Mass executions in Islamic State-occupied Mosul where over 6,539 people have been killed.
• June 12, 2014, Camp Speicher massacre, where 1,700 people were murdered in Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq.^[50]
• August 2014 – Sinjar massacre, about 5,000 Yazidis massacred by ISIS.^[51]
• January 28, 2015 – Barwana massacre, 70 unarmed boys and men by Shia militas (allegedly).
• September 1, 2016 – Islamic State reportedly executed nine Mosul youths with a chainsaw for being part of an opposing group.^[52]
• January 21, 2022, 2022 Diyala massacre that killed 11 people by the Islamic State of Iraq.^[53]