Sources: BBC
Iraqi militias withdraw from the Syrian side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing on the border with Iraq. 2024-12-6
Iran closes its border with Iraq until "further notice" amid the ongoing civil unrest, while Kuwait urges its citizens to leave Iraq. 2022-08-29
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defense system from Saudi Arabia, and announces that most jet squadrons and hundreds of American troops will be withdrawn from the region.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
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says American troops withdrawing from Syria will go to western Iraq, where the U.S. military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State to prevent its resurgence. 2019-10-20
Iraqi security services announce the arrests of 20 suspected Islamic State militants in raids in Nineveh. 2018-04-7
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
At least 21 people are killed in two car bomb blasts in Baghdad, Iraq. 2012-07-31
At least 35 people are killed and 28 others are wounded during two explosions in Taji, Iraq. 2011-07-5
At least 20 people are killed when a car bomb explodes outside a local governor's house in Al Diwaniyah in Iraq. 2011-06-21
A small plane crashes in Sulaimaniya in Iraq's semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region killing all seven people on board. 2011-02-4