Sources: TRT
Islamic State militants attack a village in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, killing 11 people and injuring several others. 2021-10-26
Seven people are killed and 13 are injured after suicide bombers hit a state-run power station near the northern city of Samarra, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack. 2017-09-2
United States President Barack Obama, at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Saudi Arabia, says the United States will continue to deter and confront aggression against Gulf Arab states; joins others in warning the fragile cease-fire in Syria is on the verge of collapse; pledges vigilance about Iran's destabilizing activities in the Middle East; wants Gulf allies to offer more democratic reforms and improve human rights; and, says the U.S. and its Gulf partners should wait to see whether Iraq can resolve its political crisis before committing more financial aid which is impeding the fight against ISIL. 2016-04-21
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
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
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
A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in the Iraqi city of Basra. 2012-01-14
An oil refinery in Baiji, Iraq, is bombed, resulting in its closure. 2011-02-26