Sources: CNN
At least 69 people are killed, 11 are reported missing, and 43 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Kut, Wasit Governorate, Iraq. The Iraqi government declares three days of mourning and the provincial government files lawsuits against the owners of the mall. 2025-07-17
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
Multiple nations, including Estonia, Iraq, Palestine, Spain and Taiwan, warn against traveling to Ukraine and urge their citizens to leave the country. 2022-02-12
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
Up to 150,000 civilians flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi which is under siege from Islamic State. 2015-04-17
Iraqi Christians defy persecution and celebrate Christmas in Baghdad. 2014-12-25
Former Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz is sentenced to death for persecuting members of the Islamic Dawa Party during Saddam Hussein's regime. 2010-10-26
United States Vice President Joe Biden pays a surprise visit to Iraq. 2010-08-30
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
A suicide bomber attacks a Shia pilgrimage in Baghdad, Iraq killing at least 41 and wounding 174. 2010-07-7