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Eighteen people are killed and 13 are injured after two minibuses carrying mostly Iranian Shia pilgrims collide between Dujail and Samarra in Saladin Governorate, Iraq.
2023-09-1

United States President Barack Obama, at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Saudi Arabia, says the United States will continue to deter and confront aggression against Gulf Arab states; joins others in warning the fragile cease-fire in Syria is on the verge of collapse; pledges vigilance about Iran's destabilizing activities in the Middle East; wants Gulf allies to offer more democratic reforms and improve human rights; and, says the U.S. and its Gulf partners should wait to see whether Iraq can resolve its political crisis before committing more financial aid which is impeding the fight against ISIL.
2016-04-21

Iraq's Foreign Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, renewed demands that Turkey fully withdraw its troops from northern Iraq, asserting that Turkey must respect Iraq's sovereignty or face potential military action. Last month the Turkish army mounted a big offensive invasion into Iraq's Kurdish territory including tanks and artillery without permission or even negotiation with the Iraqi government.
2015-12-30

A suicide bombing in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khormato kills at least eight policemen.
2013-07-28

In two bombing attacks in Iraq, 17 people are killed and 50 others wounded in a blast outside of the Presidential Palaces Mosque in central Tikrit, Iraq; and later by a suicide bomber in a Tikrit hospital treating the wounded from the first attack, killing six people and injuring ten at the hospital.
2011-06-3

A small plane crashes in Sulaimaniya in Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region killing all seven people on board.
2011-02-4

The Iraqi cilivian death toll due to violence has fallen to just under 4,000 in 2010, the lowest since the 2003 invasion of Iraq according to the Iraq Body Count.
2010-12-29

13 people are killed during attacks in Iraq: 4 people die in the town of Beiji.
2010-06-30

8 Turkish troops are killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey. In response, Kurdish positions are targeted by Turkish airstrikes in Northern Iraq. Twelve Kurdish rebels are killed.
2010-06-19