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{{Infobox civilian attack
| title       = 16 June 2013 Iraq attacks
| partof      = [[Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal)]]
| image       = {{Location map many | Iraq
| width    = 270
| lat1_deg = 33.32
| lon1_deg = 44.42
| pos1 = top
| label1   = Baghdad
| lat2_deg = 32.50
| lon2_deg = 45.82
| pos2 = right
| label2   = Kut
| lat3_deg = 32.00
| lon3_deg = 44.33
| label3   = Najaf
| lat4_deg = 36.34
| lon4_deg = 43.13
| label4   = Mosul
| lat5_deg = 34.87
| lon5_deg = 44.63
| label5   = Tuz Khormato
| lat6_deg = 30.50
| lon6_deg = 47.81
| label6   = Basra
| lat7_deg = 32.48
| lon7_deg = 44.43
| pos7 = left
| label7   = Hillah
| lat8_deg = 31.05
| lon8_deg = 46.26
| label8   = Nasiriyah
| lat9_deg = 33.10
| lon9_deg = 44.58
| label9   = Salman Pak
}}
| location    = across [[Iraq]] (''see [[16 June 2013 Iraq attacks#Attacks|map below]]'')
| date        = 16 June 2013
| target      = [[Shia]] civilians, Iraqi security forces
| type        = [[Car bomb]]ings, [[suicide bombing]]s, roadside bombings, shootings
| weapons     =
*[[Car bomb]]s
*[[Improvised Explosive Device|IED]]s
*Automatic weapons
| fatalities  = 54<ref name="AntiwarJune16" />
| injuries    = 174<ref name="AntiwarJune16" />
}}
{{Campaignbox Iraqi insurgency (post U.S. withdrawal)}}
On 16 June 2013, a series of coordinated bombings and shootings struck across several cities in [[Iraq]], killing at least 54 people and injuring more than 170 others.<ref name="AntiwarJune16">{{cite news|title=Iraq's Shi'ite South Targeted: 54 Killed, 174 Wounded|url=http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/06/16/iraqs-shiite-south-targeted-43-killed-149-wounded/|accessdate=15 June 2013|publisher=Antiwar (antiwar.com)|date=17 June 2013|archive-date=18 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618053138/http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/06/16/iraqs-shiite-south-targeted-43-killed-149-wounded/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Background==
From a peak of 3,000 deaths per month in 2006–07, violence in Iraq decreased steadily for several years before beginning to rise again in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|author=Kareen Raheem|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE93E07320130415|title=Bombs kill more than 30 across Iraq before local poll|publisher=Reuters|date=15 April 2013|accessdate=18 May 2013|archive-date=7 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307042322/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE93E07320130415|url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2012, [[Sunni]]s began to protest perceived mistreatment by the [[Shia]]-led government. The protests had been largely peaceful, but insurgents, emboldened by the [[Syrian Civil War|war in neighboring Syria]], stepped up attacks in the initial months of 2013.<ref name=Reuters /> The number of attacks rose sharply after the Iraqi army [[2013 Hawija clashes|raided a protest camp]] in [[Hawija]] on 23 April 2013.<ref name=AP /> Overall, 712 people were killed in April according to UN figures, making it the nation's deadliest month in five years.<ref name=Reuters>{{cite news|title=Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-blast-idUSBRE94G0BW20130517|date=17 May 2013|accessdate=18 May 2013|archive-date=2 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302174314/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-blast-idUSBRE94G0BW20130517|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=AP>{{cite news|title=Deadliest day in months as bombs strike Sunni areas in Iraq, killing 76|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/deadliest-day-in-months-as-bombs-strike-sunni-areas-in-iraq-killing-76/|publisher=Fox News|agency=Associated Press|date=17 May 2013|access-date=18 May 2013|archive-date=17 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517150228/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/17/26-dead-in-blast-outside-sunni-mosque-in-iraq/|url-status=live}}</ref> Conditions continued to deteriorate in May when the UN Assistance Mission
for Iraq reported at least 1,045 Iraqis were killed and another 2,397 wounded in acts of terrorism and acts of violence, making it the deadliest month in the country since April 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.un.org/news/dh/pdf/english/2013/06062013.pdf |date=6 June 2013 |title=UN envoy in Iraq strongly condemns ambush that leaves 14 dead at fake checkpoint |newspaper=UN Daily News |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045134/http://www.un.org/news/dh/pdf/english/2013/06062013.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The attacks on 16 June occurred about a month after Iraq's deadliest week in almost 5 years, as a [[May 2013 Iraq attacks|series of deadly bombings and shootings]] across the country killed at least 449 people and left 732 others injured between 15 May and 21 May.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-16 |title=Iraq Horror: 42 Killed, 141 Wounded |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/15/iraq-horror-42-killed-141-wounded/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-22 |title=Sixty Killed, 132 Wounded in Ongoing Iraq Carnage |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/21/sixty-killed-132-wounded-in-ongoing-iraq-carnage/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-20 |title=Monday Mayhem: 133 Killed, 283 Wounded in Iraq |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/20/monday-mayhem-116-killed-240-wounded-in-iraq/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-20 |title=Iraqi Police Targeted As Attacks Claim 44 Lives |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/19/iraqi-police-targeted-as-attacks-claim-44-lives/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-19 |title=Forty Killed Across Iraq; 13 Kidnapped in Anbar Province |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/18/forty-killed-across-iraq-13-kidnapped-in-anbar-province/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-17 |title=Retaliation Against Sunnis Leave 90 Dead, 201 Wounded Across Iraq |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/17/retaliation-against-sunnis-leave-90-dead-201-wounded-across-iraq/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griffis |first=Margaret |date=2013-05-17 |title=Bombings Continue in Baghdad, Kirkuk; 40 Killed |url=https://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/05/16/bombs-continue-in-baghdad-kirkuk-40-killed/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Antiwar.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Attacks==
Unlike most of the violence in Iraq during previous months, the majority of deadly attacks took place in southern cities, where such incidents are relatively rare. In the city of [[Kut]], a car bomb exploded in an industrial area early in the morning, killing 6 people and injuring 15 others. A second bombing outside the city killed 5 civilians and wounded another 12.<ref name="AntiwarJune16" /> In [[Najaf]], at least 8 were killed and 29 injured after a bomb exploded at a local market. Other cities in the south were targeted as well - twin car bombs in the central area of [[Basra]] killed 6 and wounded 9, while similar attacks in [[Nasiriyah]] killed 2 and left 35 injured. A roadside blast in [[Hillah]] killed a civilian and wounded nine others.<ref name="AntiwarJune16" />
Other attacks were reported from the central and northern parts of the country, in addition to the bombings in the south. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest at a coffee shop in [[Baghdad]]'s Amin neighborhood, leaving 11 dead and at least 25 others injured. Gunmen attacked an oil pipeline in Hatra, south of [[Mosul]], killing 6 [[Iraqi Army]] soldiers and wounding five more.<ref name="AntiwarJune16" /> In Mosul itself, two separate blasts injured 9 people, including 6 soldiers. A roadside bomb and a subsequent car bombing left 5 civilians dead and 12 others injured in Madain, near [[Salman Pak]]. Two civilians were killed and nine injured in a bombing in [[Mahmoudiyah, Iraq|Mahmoudiyah]], while a blast in [[Tuz Khormato]] killed two police officers and injured another, and four people were injured in an attack near Mahaweel. Two government employees were abducted near Riyadh.<ref name="AntiwarJune16" />
==See also==
{{Portal bar|Iraq}}
*[[List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2013]]
*[[2012–2013 Iraqi protests]]
==References==
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[[Category:Suicide bombings in Iraq]]
[[Category:Bombings in the Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)]]
[[Category:Mass murder in 2013]]
[[Category:2013 murders in Iraq]]
[[Category:Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2013]]
[[Category:2013 in Baghdad]]
[[Category:Car and truck bombings in Iraq]]
[[Category:Spree shootings in Iraq]]
[[Category:Violence against Shia Muslims in Iraq]]
[[Category:Terrorist incidents in Baghdad in the 2010s]]
[[Category:June 2013 events in Iraq]]
[[Category:Improvised explosive device bombings in Mosul]]
[[Category:Terrorist incidents in Basra]]
[[Category:History of Nasiriyah]]
[[Category:History of Najaf]]
[[Category:Military history of Hillah]]
[[Category:History of Kut]]
[[Category:History of Saladin Governorate]]
[[Category:21st-century mass murder in Baghdad]]
[[Category:21st century in Mosul]]
[[Category:Mass murder in Mosul]]
[[Category:Suicide bombings in 2013]]
[[Category:Car and truck bombings in 2013]]
[[Category:Marketplace attacks in Iraq]]
[[Category:2013 building bombings]]
[[Category:Attacks on restaurants in Iraq]]
[[Category:21st century in Basra]]