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The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy seizes control of the Marshall Islands-flagged and Greek-operated civilian oil tanker "St Nikolas" in the Gulf of Oman. The tanker had 19 crew members onboard, including 18 Filipinos and one Greek. It was carrying crude oil from Basra, Iraq, to Turkey.
2024-01-11

Four Hezbollah members and two other militants are killed by three airstrikes at Syria's border with Iraq.
2023-12-30

Iraq reports the highest single-day increase of over 3,800 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
2020-08-13

At least two people are killed and 200 are injured at protests against unemployment and government corruption in Iraq. Protestors also try to enter the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
2019-10-1

Iraqi authorities ban Qatar-based satellite television network Al Jazeera from broadcasting in the country and closes its offices in Baghdad, accusing it of violating government guidelines issued in 2014 to regulate media “during the war on terror".
2016-04-27

The delegation from Saudi Arabia departed from the meeting of the Arab League, offended by remarks of the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, an indication of increasing tension among Arab states.
2016-03-11

A suicide bombing inside a Sunni mosque in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala kills at least twenty people.
2013-07-19

At least three people are killed in an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq.
2010-10-27

Former Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz is sentenced to death for persecuting members of the Islamic Dawa Party during Saddam Hussein's regime.
2010-10-26

Two bombs killed 42 people and wounded 65 others in Iraq's mainly Sunni Diyala province, prior to the release of full preliminary results from the March 7 parliamentary election.
2010-03-27