Sources: TRT
Iraqi President Barham Salih says that $150 billion in oil has been stolen from the country since the 2003 invasion due to corruption. 2021-05-23
The Trump administration is considering sending captured ISIL fighters to a prison in Iraq, as well as sending "high-valued fighters", who participated in the murder of Americans and other Western hostages, to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Human rights groups and the Democratic Party are opposed to holding these people indefinitely without charges and say they should be tried in federal courts. 2018-08-30
Islamic State militants counter-attack in Iraq's Saladin province and seize locations west, north and south of Baiji, home to Iraq's largest oil refinery. In addition, the militants attack oilfields west of Tikrit, capture parts of the town of Seiniyah, portions of Mak'houl Mountain, and an abandoned fertilizer plant. 2015-11-22
Iraqi forces expel ISIS from the refinery town of Baiji in northern Iraq. 2014-11-14
A suicide bomber kills eight people in the centre of Baiji in northern Iraq. 2014-11-11
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant militants lay siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery, located in Baiji. 2014-06-18
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says that Iraq is "delighted" by the news, noting that thousands of Iraqis had died "because of his ideologies". 2011-05-2
An oil refinery in Baiji, Iraq, is bombed, resulting in its closure. 2011-02-26
At least 17 mainly Iranian people are killed in a collision of two buses on a highway near the holy site of Najaf, Iraq. 2010-12-3
At least twelve people die when gunmen try to rob jewellery shops in Baghdad, Iraq and get into a gunfight with security, police and military. 2010-10-17