Sources: BBC
Three Sinjar Resistance Units militants are killed by a Turkish drone strike in Sinjar District, Iraq. 2023-05-23
About 250 protesters gather at the main entrance to Iraq's giant Zubair oilfield. 2018-07-17
A U.S. federal judge blocks until June 20 the release in Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled territory of a dual-nationality Saudi-American citizen alleged to have joined ISIL. The man, who is now held for nine months in Iraq, was planned to be released by the U.S. military β with a new cell phone, some food and water and $4,210 in cash, but with no identification β as soon as tomorrow. 2018-06-8
The Turkish military say it carried out air strikes in northern Iraq against targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, hitting weapon stores and shelters. 2016-04-5
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford makes a proposal to President Barack Obama to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, so as to help the Iraqi Army with advisors closer to the front lines and to recapture Mosul, which fell to ISIL in June 2014. 2016-03-26
Iraq's military reports bombing a convoy possibly carrying Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The group was headed to a meeting in the western Al Anbar Governorate, close to the Syrian border. Eight senior ISIS figures were killed, but al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them according to Iraqi officials. 2015-10-11
Newly declassified CIA documents show that top officials in the Reagan administration agreed to give Iraq information on the location of Iranian troops during the Iran-Iraq War despite awareness of Saddam Hussein's intention to use chemical weapons. 2013-08-26
A suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in western Anbar province kills several people. 2010-12-12