Sources: Reuters
At least 10 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces are killed by ISIL militants in attacks in the town of Mekeeshfa and the city of Balad. Iraq and the paramilitary forces' official media report that scores of others were wounded. 2020-05-2
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says the Afrin offensive, as announced, is now to turn east, towards Manbij and the border with Iraq. 2018-01-26
A major Switzerland based commodities firm, Trafigura, played a "pivotal" role in the ability of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq to export oil, exports that the central government in Baghdad has prohibited. 2014-12-2
Militants stage an overnight attack in Mosul, Iraq, taking control of the city while police and military flee. 2014-06-10
Eight people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack on a cafe in Balad north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. 2013-08-12
At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq, between police forces and Sunni Muslim activists. 2013-04-23
Qatar rejects Iraq's demand to hand over fugitive Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi. 2012-04-3
Four consecutive bombings kill at least 10 people and injure 70 others in the Iraqi city of Karbala. 2011-09-25
In two bombing attacks in Iraq, 17 people are killed and 50 others wounded in a blast outside of the Presidential Palaces Mosque in central Tikrit, Iraq; and later by a suicide bomber in a Tikrit hospital treating the wounded from the first attack, killing six people and injuring ten at the hospital. 2011-06-3
Iraqi Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr urges a rejection of violence and peaceful resistance against the country's "occupiers" in his first public address since his return from exile. 2011-01-8