Sources: The Daily Star
Iraq's parliament votes to criminalize same-sex relationships, to be punishable by a maximum of 15 years in prison. 2024-04-27
A United States convoy consisting of 40 trucks and armored vehicles enters northeastern Syria from Iraq via the Al Waleed crossing. 2021-01-21
Iraqi and local officials say a senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander and three others have been killed in a drone strike near the Iraq–Syria border. The identity of the commander and who conducted the airstrike is currently unknown. 2020-11-30
The Iraqi Parliament votes in favour of a reciprocal travel ban on U.S. citizens if U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order barring citizens of Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries is not reversed. The Iraqi travel ban will not be implemented while tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and contractors are involved in the fight against ISIL. 2017-01-30
Sohaib al Rawi, Governor of Al Anbar Governorate in Iraq, claims that ISIL has killed 52 people, mostly police officers on the border with Syria in the past week. 2015-04-9
Attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni Arab areas of northern and western Iraq kill nine people. 2014-04-4
A suicide bomber attacks a cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 12 people and injuring another 38. 2014-03-20
Two roadside bombs detonate outside a Sunni mosque killing at least 4 people and wounding 13 in Dora, Baghdad, Iraq. 2013-04-23
Three roadside bombs detonate in the Iraqi city of Basra, killing at least 19 people and injuring 67. 2011-11-24
Three car bombs hit the Egyptian, German and Iranian embassies in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in quick succession, killing at least 30 people. 2010-04-4