15 December 1981
✸Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut: the first suicide car bombing
AttackerArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)➜TargetIraq / Saddam Hussein
On 15 December 1981 a suicide bomber in a car destroyed the Iraqi embassy building in Beirut, killing 61 people including the ambassador; the first suicide car bombing in the region, claimed by "Islamic Dawa" in the context of the Iraq–Iran war.