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Iraq imposes a two-day nationwide curfew as it conducts its first national census since 1987.
2024-11-20

Demonstrations across Iraq leave dozens of people dead and cause mass unrest.
2018-07-16

Iraq's Oil Ministry brings forward the proposed date for awarding oil exploration contracts for new fields offshore and near the Iranian and Kuwaiti borders to April 15.
2018-04-1

Following the Obama Administration's pledge of additional Special Operations troops to Iraq, several members of Iraq’s ruling alliance state that only the Iraqi Parliament can authorize the action, and political associates of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi report such a troop expansion would be unacceptable. Several members of Iraqi militias have also decried a deployment of more U.S. troops. During the pull out from Iraq, president Obama promised there would be no more "boots on the ground" in Iraq again.
2015-12-3

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