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The website of Israel's "Jerusalem Post" newspaper is hacked by suspected Iranian hackers. The website's content was replaced with a threat targeting the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center and an apparent reference to Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated exactly two years earlier in Baghdad, Iraq.
2022-01-3

Iraq issues an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump, accusing him of "premediated murder" due to his role in the killings of Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
2021-01-7

A group of unknown assailants assassinate prominent Iraqi historian and government advisor Hisham al-Hashimi near his home in Zayouna, Baghdad. No group has claimed responsibility for his killing.
2020-07-6

In one of the deadliest days of the protests so far, Iraqi security forces open fire and kill 25 people who were blocking a bridge in Nasiriyah, while 10 people are killed in Najaf, and four people are shot dead in the capital Baghdad. The Iraqi Armed Forces says an emergency unit had been created to "impose security and restore order" in response to the violence. 45 people have been killed by security forces in total.
2019-11-28

In Iraq, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi agrees to resign after weeks of anti-government protests.
2019-10-31

The United Nations declares its highest state of emergency in Iraq following the advance of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2014-08-14

Gunmen ambush a bus in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, killing 10 border police and 5 civilians.
2013-06-6

At least 20 people are killed when a car bomb explodes outside a local governor's house in Al Diwaniyah in Iraq.
2011-06-21

The last United States brigade combat team leaves Iraq: there are still 56,000 members of the United States armed forces in the country.
2010-08-19

At least 22 people are killed and at least 53 others are injured after a car bomb explodes at a market in Al Khalis, Diyala in Iraq.
2010-05-21