January 16: A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in Diyala province north of the capital, killing nine of them.

February 1: Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control. The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popular pet markets.

March 6: 54 killed in a popular market in the Karada shopping area in Baghdad on March 6, a roadside bomb detonates

April 15: At least 53 died and another 90 were injured when explosives packed in a bus detonated outside a restaurant near a court in Baquba, north of Baghdad on April 15.

June 17: 63 people were killed when a minibus packed with explosives detonated near a marketplace in the Huriya district during the evening business rush.

LEBANON

January 15: In Beirut, a bomb targeting a US Embassy vehicle detonates, killing bystanders.

January 26: A car bomb killed one of Lebanon's top terrorism investigators and three others in Beirut.

ISRAEL

Culprits: Armed Palestinian attackers, members of Hamas’ various wings

January 24, 2008: Two terrorists entered the Mekor Hayim High School Yeshiva in Kfar Etzion, south of Jerusalem, and stabbed two students. The Izaddin al-Kassam's Martyrs Brigades, the Hamas military wing, claimed responsibility for the attack.

March 6: Eight men, seven of them teenagers, were killed when a Palestinian gunman entered the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem and opened fire.

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