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
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that the United States will continue to defend troops and interests. He also says that those who carried out the rocket attack in Iraq will be held accountable. 2021-03-7
Thousands of Iraqis demand American forces withdraw from the country during protests in Liberation Square, Baghdad, a year after an American drone strike killed Iran's general Qasem Soleimani and Iraq's militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The anniversary of their deaths in Baghdad was also marked in Iran as well as by supporters in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and other Middle East countries. 2021-01-3
Iraq signs a preliminary deal to receive 1.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Tozinameran. Ministry of Health spokesman Seif al-Badr says troops and the elderly will be prioritized for vaccinations. 2020-12-22
France conducts airstrikes against ISIL positions in Iraq from the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle". 2016-09-30
A suicide bomber kills eight people in the centre of Baiji in northern Iraq. 2014-11-11
The Committee to Protect Journalists claims that there have been 251 murders of journalists in 13 countries where the murderer has remained unpunished in the past decade with Iraq, Somalia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka being considered the worst environments for journalists. 2011-06-1
The man accused of murdering aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq in 2004 disappears before his retrial. 2010-07-14
9 Iraqis are killed in bombings, including two leaders of U.S. government-backed Sunni militants. [http:--www.time.com-time-world-article-0,8599,1998959,00.html ("TIME")]date=August 2019 2010-06-23
The Iraqi Council of Representatives convenes in Baghdad three months after inconclusive elections. 2010-06-14