Sources: AFP via ''Al-Aribya
A rocket explodes inside the heavily fortified Green Zone sector of Iraq's capital, landing less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad amid heightened tensions in the region between the United States and Iran. 2019-05-19
ISIL releases a statement claiming responsibility for killing or wounding 103 Iraqi soldiers within one month. The group also claims to have abducted 13 more soldiers, and destroyed 12 armoured vehicles. 2018-03-25
The United States military states that it has inadvertently killed 64 civilians in air strikes on targets in Syria and Iraq over the past year. 2016-11-9
French authorities give up to 1000 migrants, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, until 8 p.m. local time on 23 February to leave the Calais jungle camp. Those who refuse to leave will be forcibly removed by police. 2016-02-20
A suicide truck bomber detonates his vehicle at the gate of a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan office in Tuz Khormato, Iraq, a second truck bomb detonated as people were gathering around the first one. Over 15 are killed and at least 110 injured. 2014-06-9
Massive Sunni-led demonstrations erupt across Iraq demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. 2012-12-28
Car bombs injure at least 37 people in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk. 2010-11-6
The death toll of Saturday's explosion in Basra, Iraq, rises to 43, with the number of injured people being over 100. Police say the explosion was as a result of a power generator short-circuiting but other sources claim it was due to a car bomb. 2010-08-8
A hotel fire in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya kills at least 29 people and injures another 21. 2010-07-16