Sources: BBC
Four civilians are killed and four more are injured in an ISIL motorcycle bombing near a hospital in Basra, Iraq. 2021-12-7
Thousands of Iraqis take to the streets in Baghdad and major southern cities, including Basra and Najaf, to both mark the anniversary of the protests and renew calls to end corruption. Security forces in central Baghdad threw tear gas to prevent marchers from crossing strategic bridges, injuring at least six, and around 43 officers were injured after protesters threw Molotov cocktails at them. 2020-10-25
Seven people are killed and more than 30 are injured during a rally in Basra, Iraq after security forces opened fire. 2018-09-4
Health officials state that the Iraqi city of Basra has recorded 17,000 infection cases due to water contamination. A cholera outbreak is feared as salinity rates continue to increase in the unprocessed water. 2018-08-28
Iraqi authorities are searching for 10 grams of iridium-192, a radioactive material stolen from a Weatherford International oilfield services facility near Basra in November 2015. Authorities are concerned about its potential use by Islamic State, or the like, to develop a dirty bomb weapon. 2016-02-17
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
British businessman James McCormick, who sold ADE 651 fake bomb detector to Iraq and other countries, is jailed for ten years at the Old Bailey. 2013-05-2
A car bombing near a bus station in Garmat Ali near the Iraqi city of Basra kills at least 10 people. 2013-03-17
A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in the Iraqi city of Basra. 2012-01-14
The UK's military operation in Iraq will officially end at midnight, after the Royal Navy completes its training of Iraqi sailors. 2011-05-22