Sources: Reuters
PKK fighters kill three Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq, before Turkish fighter jets reportedly kill six PKK fighters during airstrikes. 2021-12-9
Iranian IRGC Ground Forces strike "terrorist positions" in northern Iraq with suicide and combat drones as well as precision-guided artillery. 2021-09-10
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
Yazidi demonstrators at Calgary City Hall in Calgary, Alberta call for the Canadian government to help with efforts to reunite family members in Canada who fled the genocide perpetrated by ISIL in 2014 with those still living in Iraq. 2018-08-3
The United States Air Force deploys B-52 bombers to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to join operations against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. This is the first time they have been stationed in the Middle East since the end of the Gulf War in 1991. 2016-04-9
Following Austria's and Germany's decision to waive their asylum system rules, approximately 6,500 migrants β mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan β arrive in Vienna. They traveled from Hungary by bus, train or on foot. The migrants were given the opportunity to register in Austria or move on to Germany. 2015-09-5
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 72 people are killed and 169 wounded in a series of 16 bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, shortly after the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. 2011-12-22
Charges against 5 men from Iraq, who had been accused of murdering 6 British police officers in 2003, are dropped. 2010-08-15
Two inspection teams from Iraq's ministry of human rights enter a "secret prison" in Baghdad where "serious legal violations" are said to have occurred. 2010-04-20