March 22: Three people were killed, including an Australiancameraman, and nine others injured when a suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in Sayed Sadiq.
April 3: A female suicide bomber killed three coalition soldiers at a checkpoint north-west of Baghdad. Her apparent accomplice, a pregnant woman who was also killed in the attack, exited the vehicle prior to the explosion and began screaming in fear. It is unclear if she was attempting to flee, or trying to draw the coalition troops towards her vehicle.
October 28: A suicide car bomber blew himself up 100 yards from a police station in Fallujah, killing four people.
November 12: 2003 Nasiriyah bombing: A suicide car bombing in the southern town of Nasiriyah killed about 30 people. The target was an Italian military base; 19 of the dead were Italians.
November 22: Two suicide car bombers struck police stations in the towns of Khan Bani Saad and Baquba almost simultaneously, killing at least 18 people and leaving over 30 wounded.
December 9: Suicide bombers, one in a car and another on foot, blew themselves up at the gates of two US military bases, wounding 61 American soldiers.
December 14: Hours before the US military announced that they capturedSaddam Hussein, a suspected suicide car bomber killed 16 police officers and two civilians outside a police station in Khaldiya, 60 miles west of Baghdad.
December 15: On the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, a suicide bomber driving a four-wheel-drive taxi killed eight policemen at their station in Husainiyah. Just hours before, in the Ameriyah neighbourhood of the city, eight policemen were injured by another suicide car bomber.
December 17: A suicide truck bomber, who was trying to attack a police station in the al-Bayaa district of Baghdad, collided with a bus at an intersection killing at least ten people and wounding 20.
December 18: A VBIED attacked a civilianconvoy on MSR Hershey at approximately 0700 hours as they were leaving their encampment to go to work near Bayji. A South African armored personnel carrier was destroyed in the process. Several injuries, but no US personnel - military or civilian - were killed.
December 24: A suicide bombing killed four and wounds over 100 at the Interior Ministry offices in Arbil.
December 27: 2003 Karbala bombings: Five Bulgarian soldiers and two Thai soldiers were among 19 people killed and 18 injured in a coordinated attack on coalition military bases in Karbala. Four suicide car bombers struck a Bulgarian base, a compound containing the city hall and police HQ, and a multinational logistics base run by Polish, Thai, and American soldiers.
December 31: Five Iraqis are killed and at least 21 people were injured by a car bomb which targeted a restaurant popular with Westerners in Baghdad. At least three buildings were destroyed by the explosion.