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Fifteen people are killed and 16 more injured by an explosion caused by a gas leak at a residential building in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
2022-11-17

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution declaring that Iraq is no longer required to pay out to victims of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had paid out US$50 billion to 1.4 million claimants, including one claim to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation that totaled US$14.7 billion, by the time of the resolution's passage.
2022-02-22

The American-led coalition issues a statement saying that 11 U.S. service members were injured by the January 8, 2020 attack by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq. The U.S. Department of Defense had initially assessed that there had been no injuries.
2020-01-16

Iraqi authorities announce the arrest of alleged senior Islamic State member Saab Abdullah al-Issawi in a military-supported airdrop in Anbar.
2018-03-28

Iraqi authorities are searching for 10 grams of iridium-192, a radioactive material stolen from a Weatherford International oilfield services facility near Basra in November 2015. Authorities are concerned about its potential use by Islamic State, or the like, to develop a dirty bomb weapon.
2016-02-17

Satellite images released by the Associated Press reveal the historic Saint Elijah's Monastery near the Iraqi city of Mosul, the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq that predates Islam, has been completely razed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants.
2016-01-20

At least five people are killed in separate incidents in Iraq including a suspected al-Qaida leader in Mosul.
2013-04-18

Saddam Hussein's former foreign minister Tariq Aziz and other senior members are summoned and appear in an Iraqi court charged with "squandering the public wealth".
2010-07-18

An Iraqi court orders a search for a man, who disappeared yesterday, accused of involvement in the murder of aid worker Margaret Hassan in 2004.
2010-07-15