Sources: Aljazeera
Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. 2024-10-2
Fourteen people are killed and six more are injured during a mass shooting by Islamic State militants against a bus carrying Shia Hazara people between the Afghan provinces of Ghor and Daikundi, after returning from a pilgrimage in Iraq. 2024-09-12
Iraq sentences seven foreign women for links to Islamic State. Three Azerbaijanis and one Kergyz receive death sentences while two Russians and a French women receive life sentences. 2018-04-17
Thousands of Iraqis flee western Mosul as the battle between Iraqi and allied forces and ISIL militants escalates in the densely populated Old City. 2017-03-18
Turkish fighter jets kill 19 suspected Kurdish militants in strikes on the Gara region in northern Iraq. 2016-12-10
In Iraq, a cholera outbreak prompts United Nations agencies UNICEF and the World Health Organization to launch a prevention and treatment campaign. So far, around 2,200 cases have been confirmed, and some infections have occurred in neighboring countries. 2015-11-7
Following Austria's and Germany's decision to waive their asylum system rules, approximately 6,500 migrants β mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan β arrive in Vienna. They traveled from Hungary by bus, train or on foot. The migrants were given the opportunity to register in Austria or move on to Germany. 2015-09-5
ISIS burns more than 8,000 rare books and manuscripts in Mosul, Iraq. 2015-02-22
At least 50 are killed and more than 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq. 2012-03-20
Around 60 unsuccessful Iraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported to Baghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city. 2010-06-9