Sources: The Daily Star
Mona Juul, Norway's ambassador to Iraq and Jordan, resigns after the foreign ministry opened an inquiry into her past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, amid media reports that Epstein left money to her children. 2026-02-8
Haibat al-Halbousi of the Iraqi Progress Party is elected Speaker of the Council of Representatives following the recent parliamentary election. 2025-12-29
Four Hezbollah members and two other militants are killed by three airstrikes at Syria's border with Iraq. 2023-12-30
Iraqi protesters storm and set fire to the Iranian Consulate General in Najaf. 2019-11-27
ISIL claims responsibility for yesterday's bombing in Iraq, in which 12 were killed. 2019-09-21
Alleged Israeli airstrikes hit a Iran backed Popular Mobilization Forces convoy near Al-Qa'im, Iraq. 2019-08-25
Turkish air strikes kill 18 Kurdish YPG fighters and media officials in northeastern Syria. Also five Peshmerga fighters are killed during a Turkish attack on Sinjar in Iraq. Turkey also claims to have destroyed "terror hubs". Iraq denounces the strike as a violation of its sovereignty. 2017-04-25
U.S. President Donald Trump signs a revised version of Executive Order 13769 eliminating Iraq from the order and reducing the indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees to 120 days. The order will be in effect on March 16, 2017. 2017-03-6
Turkey launches an air strike on PKK positions in northern Iraq. 2011-08-18
8 people die and 10 people are wounded in a suicide attack in the northern city of Shirqat of Iraq. 2010-06-21