Sources: AFP via ''Al-Aribya
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York orders American handicraft chain Hobby Lobby to forfeit a 3,600-year-old tablet containing a portion of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" to the federal government, after the company illegally purchased it in a private auction in 2014. The Justice Department had been looking to claim the tablet since 2013, as it was suspected to have been stolen from an Iraqi archeological site in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, so it could be repatriated back to Iraq. 2021-07-27
The Biden administration removes eight Patriot anti-missile batteries from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq, removes the THAAD anti-missile defense system from Saudi Arabia, and announces that most jet squadrons and hundreds of American troops will be withdrawn from the region. The changes come in light of both de-escalating tensions with Iran and the administration changing its focus on countering China. 2021-06-18
Ansar al-Islam claims responsibility for an IED explosion that killed three soldiers in Iraq's Diyala Province. This was their first attack since 2013. 2019-10-31
At least 23 civilians die in an airstrike near Shadadi, Al-Hasakah Governorate. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has stated it is not clear who carried out the attack, listing Iraq and US-led coalition as two possibilities. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency claims the US-led coalition is responsible. 2018-05-1
Following Austria's and Germany's decision to waive their asylum system rules, approximately 6,500 migrants β mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan β arrive in Vienna. They traveled from Hungary by bus, train or on foot. The migrants were given the opportunity to register in Austria or move on to Germany. 2015-09-5
Two militants, one wearing a suicide vest, kill two Saudi Arabian border guards and a general near the border with Iraq. 2015-01-5
Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi government forces withdrew from the area. 2014-07-3
Voters in Iraq go to the polls for parliamentary elections that have already been marred by violence from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. 2014-04-30
Fourteen people are killed at a fake security checkpoint manned by gunmen in western Iraq. 2013-06-5
At least 72 people are killed and 169 wounded in a series of 16 bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, shortly after the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. 2011-12-22