Sources: BBC
Iraq blocks the Telegram app over concerns about its leakage of official state data and personal information. 2023-08-6
The number of people displaced globally totals 65.6 million after an addition of 10.3 million people displaced in 2016. Syria, Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan are the countries in the top five. 2017-06-19
Turkish air strikes kill 18 Kurdish YPG fighters and media officials in northeastern Syria. Also five Peshmerga fighters are killed during a Turkish attack on Sinjar in Iraq. Turkey also claims to have destroyed "terror hubs". Iraq denounces the strike as a violation of its sovereignty. 2017-04-25
Iraqi officials, following arrested IS militants' directions, uncover two mass graves with bodies of about 40 people in Ramadi. 2016-04-19
Iraq's government gives Turkey 48 hours to withdraw its forces from northern Iraq or face "all available options", including recourse to the UN Security Council. 2015-12-6
Several attacks, including a suicide bombing, kill at least 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, in a predominantly Shiite part of the capital. 2015-02-9
The United Kingdom raises its terror threat level from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria. 2014-08-29
A suicide bombing in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khormato kills at least eight policemen. 2013-07-28
Car bombs injure at least 37 people in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk. 2010-11-6