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Baghdād province, Iraq: events and estimated deaths in May 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 1 event of organized violence in Baghdād province, Iraq in May 2025. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 1. UCDP does not count this death as the death of a civilian. UCDP recorded no events in April 2025.

Baghdād province, Iraq holds 8 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Iraq in May 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Iraq, May 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Iraq has each event.

Table 1. Baghdād province, May 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
4 May 2025Tarmiyah district, Baghdād provinceGovernment of Iraq; ISState-based111

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Baghdād province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Iraq11
IS11

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Baghdād province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
August 20261P2PCandidate Events
April 20261P2PCandidate Events
March 20266P16PCandidate Events
May 202511GED
September 202412GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Baghdād province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Baghdād province, Iraq: events and estimated deaths in May 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/iraq/baghdad-province/month/2025-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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