Sources: Daily Star
Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate. 2024-08-29
Iraq reports its first five cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in the northern city of Duhok, in Iraqi Kurdistan. 2022-01-6
Health officials state that the Iraqi city of Basra has recorded 17,000 infection cases due to water contamination. A cholera outbreak is feared as salinity rates continue to increase in the unprocessed water. 2018-08-28
The number of people displaced globally totals 65.6 million after an addition of 10.3 million people displaced in 2016. Syria, Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan are the countries in the top five. 2017-06-19
French authorities give up to 1000 migrants, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, until 8 p.m. local time on 23 February to leave the Calais jungle camp. Those who refuse to leave will be forcibly removed by police. 2016-02-20
Up to 150,000 civilians flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi which is under siege from Islamic State. 2015-04-17
United States President Barack Obama orders 1500 more troops into Iraq. 2014-11-7
A suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an oil tanker truck, killing 15 people in Baghdad, Iraq. 2013-11-6
At least 33 people are killed in Kirkuk, Iraq, when a suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters and gunmen disguised as officers tried to storm the compound. 2013-02-3
Two car bombs explode in the city of Dujail, Iraq, leaving at least 7 dead and 25 wounded. 2013-01-17