Sources: AFP via ''Al-Aribya
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launches ballistic missiles at Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, killing nine civilians and injuring 32 others. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says that it will summon the Iranian ambassador in response to the attacks. 2022-09-29
Iraq reports the highest single-day increase of over 3,800 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. 2020-08-13
A court in France sentences five women to prison terms for their roles in the failed bombing. A Syrian man, thought to have been killed in Iraq in 2017, is sentenced to life "in absentia". 2019-10-15
The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, the ancient ruins of Babylon in Babil Governorate, Iraq, among other sites are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 2019-07-7
Ali Bashar confesses in court in Germany to killing teenager Susanna Feldmann. Bashar is a failed asylum seeker from Iraq. The case prompted national debate and a pledge by Angela Merkel to call for improvements to the deportation system in Germany. Counterterror police traveled to Iraq in order to return him to Germany, as he had already been deported when he was identified in connection to the murder; Iraq has no extradition treaty with Germany. 2019-03-13
Violence erupts at a protest rally in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least four protesters and one police officer. Thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gathered in the capital to demand an overhaul of the country's electoral system. 2017-02-11
A suicide car bomber kills 42 people at a police checkpoint in Hillah, Iraq. 2014-03-9
Two car bombs detonate in a village near Tal Afar, Iraq killing and wounding dozens of people. 2013-10-6
Turkish warplanes carry out a series of airstrikes against suspected Kurdish targets in Iraq and Turkish soldiers withdraw from Iraqi territory after sending troops in pursuit of Kurdish rebels in the latest fighting between Turkey and Kurdish rebels. 2010-06-17
Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad. 2010-06-13