Baghdād province, Iraq: events and estimated deaths in March 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through 30 Sep 2026

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UCDP recorded 6 eventsP of organized violence in Baghdād province, Iraq in March 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 16P. UCDP counts 1P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. UCDP recorded no eventsP in February 2026.

UCDP recorded no events in March 2025. Baghdād province, Iraq holds 16 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Iraq in March 2026. In March 2025, the share was 0 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Iraq, March 2026.

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 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through 30 Sep 2026. 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, March 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
Date	Place	Sides, as UCDP writes them	Type of violence	Estimated deathsP	Low	High
2 Mar 2026	Baghdād province	Government of Iraq; Civilians	One-sided	1	1	1
4 Mar 2026	Baghdād province	Government of Iran; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	2	2	2
12 Mar 2026	Baghdād province	Government of Israel, Government of United States of America; Kataib Hezbollah	State-based	2	2	2
14 Mar 2026	Baghdād province	Government of Iraq; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	4	4	4
17 Mar 2026	Baghdād province	Government of Iran; Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	State-based	6	6	6
21 Mar 2026	Baghdād province	Actor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDP	State-based	1	1	1

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Baghdād province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of March 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes it	Events	Estimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP	1P	1P
Government of Iran	2P	8P
Government of Iraq	2P	5P
Government of Israel, Government of United States of America	4P	14P
Kataib Hezbollah	1P	2P

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. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Baghdād province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
Month	Events	Estimated deaths	Dataset
August 2026	1P	2P	Candidate Events
April 2026	1P	2P	Candidate Events
March 2026	6P	16P	Candidate Events
May 2025	1	1	GED
September 2024	1	2	GED

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Baghdād province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Baghdād province, Iraq: events and estimated deaths in March 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/iraq/baghdad-province/month/2026-03/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

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