Sources: Reuters
The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution declaring that Iraq is no longer required to pay out to victims of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had paid out US$50 billion to 1.4 million claimants, including one claim to the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation that totaled US$14.7 billion, by the time of the resolution's passage. 2022-02-22
Tens of thousands of mourners, among them Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, attend a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, for those killed in a United States airstrike—among them Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Force and at least five others. The bodies are then brought to Karbala and Najaf, where Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the other Iraqis killed are to be buried. 2020-01-4
The border between Iran and Iraq reopens, after being closed for a week due to mass protests in their respective countries. 2019-11-23
Yazidi demonstrators at Calgary City Hall in Calgary, Alberta call for the Canadian government to help with efforts to reunite family members in Canada who fled the genocide perpetrated by ISIL in 2014 with those still living in Iraq. 2018-08-3
Voters in Iraq go to the polls. One quarter of the 329 seats in the Council of Representatives must go to women. 2018-05-12
The Turkish army says 69 Kurdish insurgents and two Turkish soldiers were killed in four days of fighting in Cizre and Silopi, near the Syrian and Iraqi borders, in southeast Turkey. 2015-12-19
A bomb detonates outside a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk, Iraq, killing 12 worshipers and injuring another 24. 2013-10-15
Bombs targeting two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, Iraq, kill seven people. 2013-09-27
Iraq is poised to sign $12b gas deal with Shell Oil Company. 2011-02-7
The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution cross the border into Iraq and kill 30 Kurds. 2010-09-26