Sources: AFP via ''Al-Aribya
The Independent High Electoral Commission releases the seat distribution from Iraq's recent election as prime minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Coordination Framework alliance declares that it will form the majority bloc and will nominate the next prime minister. 2025-11-17
German police, French security services, and Interpol conduct coordinated mass raids on an Iraqi-Kurdish human trafficking network in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. 2024-12-4
Iraq imposes a two-day nationwide curfew as it conducts its first national census since 1987. 2024-11-20
Fourteen people are killed and six more are injured during a mass shooting by Islamic State militants against a bus carrying Shia Hazara people between the Afghan provinces of Ghor and Daikundi, after returning from a pilgrimage in Iraq. 2024-09-12
Iraqi security forces kill six suspected terrorists and seize guns and explosives in an operation targeting Islamic State in Anbar. 2018-04-8
The Iraqi parliament passes a law recognizing Shia paramilitary units as a government entity, complete with salaries and pensions that mirror those of the military and the police. 2016-11-26
A series of car bombings around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, kills at least 38 people. 2013-10-27
Iran claims to have taken control of three Iranian Kurdish PJAK camps inside Iraq. 2011-07-18
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia invites Iraqi political leaders for a meeting in Riyadh as part of an attempt to sort out the deadlock over the formation of a new government. 2010-10-30
A series of bombings over the three-day Shia pilgrimage to the mausoleum of Musa Kadhim in Iraq kill at least 70 and wound 300.2010-07-8