Sources: BBC
The Bahraini interior ministry bans its citizens from traveling to Iran or Iraq due to "the ongoing tension in the current security situation." 2026-06-2
Protests in Copenhagen, Denmark, involving Quran desecration, responding to similar protests in Sweden, trigger unrest in Iraq, leading to an attempted breach of Baghdad's Green Zone and armed attacks on Danish Refugee Council facilities in Basra. 2023-07-22
The United States Armed Forces report that two personnel were injured in rocket attacks on Al Asad Airbase in Iraq, which houses US troops. 2021-07-7
Iraq receives 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccines donated by China as the country officially begins its vaccination campaign. 2021-03-2
At U.S. President Joe Biden's direction, the U.S. military launches airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia group Kata'ib Hezbollah's structures in Abu Kamal, Syria, killing 17 Popular Mobilization Forces militants. The airstrikes are described as retaliation for a recent rocket strike in Erbil, Iraq, which left two people dead and 13 others wounded, including American military personnel. 2021-02-25
Several universities and schools shut down as many students join the protests across Iraq. Thousands continue to participate in spite of the violent crackdowns from the previous days. 2019-10-27
Iraqi security forces kill six suspected terrorists and seize guns and explosives in an operation targeting Islamic State in Anbar. 2018-04-8
Kurdish Peshmerga forces discover a mass grave believed to contain the remains of more than 70 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, mostly women, east of the recently liberated town of Sinjar. 2015-11-14
Sunni militants and the Iraqi Army clash west of Baghdad, Iraq leaving 4 children dead. 2014-08-14
A wave of twelve car bombs targeting Shiite communities in Iraq kills at least 44 people. 2013-07-29