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A refrigerator truck crashed into a group of children in Basra, Iraq, killing six and injuring 14.
2024-04-2

Israel carries out a wave of airstrikes on Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate, near its border with Iraq. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that 57 people have been killed and 28 others injured in at least 18 Israeli airstrikes, saying that several Iranian arms depots were hit. A senior U.S. intelligence official says that the air raids were carried out with "intelligence provided by the U.S."
2021-01-13

Eight rockets are fired at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, prompting the activation of C-RAM air defences.
2020-12-20

Five Italian soldiers are wounded by a bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq. Three of the soldiers are seriously injured, two of whom suffer an amputated leg, while another an amputated foot. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
2019-11-10

Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia shut their borders to so-called economic migrants, those not coming from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq, leaving thousands stranded at Balkan border crossings. Around 500 migrants from Iran, Morocco, and Algeria gather on the border between Greece and Macedonia to protest the closure.
2015-11-20

Twenty-six people convicted of terrorism charges are hanged in Iraq.
2014-01-21

At least 37 people are killed in Iraq amid a two-day spate of suicide bombings and armed prison escapes.
2013-07-22

Gunmen ambush a bus in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, killing 10 border police and 5 civilians.
2013-06-6

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says that Iraq is "delighted" by the news, noting that thousands of Iraqis had died "because of his ideologies".
2011-05-2

The Iraqi Council of Representatives convenes in Baghdad three months after inconclusive elections.
2010-06-14