Sources: Reuters
Iraqi security services announce the arrests of 20 suspected Islamic State militants in raids in Nineveh. 2018-04-7
The United States announces it will be sending 560 more United States Armed Forces soldiers to Iraq to help fight against ISIL. 2016-07-11
A senior Iraqi intelligence official, who is also a Syrian activist leader, says Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant commander Omar al-Shishani (Omar the Chechen, real name Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili) died of wounds suffered in a March 4 U.S. airstrike near the Syrian town of Al-Shaddadah. The U.S. State Department offered up to $5 million for information on his whereabouts. Amaq news agency, which supports ISIL, says Shishani is neither dead nor hurt. 2016-03-15
Iraqi authorities are searching for 10 grams of iridium-192, a radioactive material stolen from a Weatherford International oilfield services facility near Basra in November 2015. Authorities are concerned about its potential use by Islamic State, or the like, to develop a dirty bomb weapon. 2016-02-17
The President of the United States Barack Obama authorises $25 million for "immediate military assistance" to the Iraqi government and Kurdistan Regional Government. He also outlines plans to expand US operations against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant to Syria in a televised address to the nation. 2014-09-10
A mortar attack kills four Iraq army officers and two soldiers in an army base west of Baghdad. 2013-12-23
A wave of violence in Iraq kills 52 people, most of whom were kidnapped and then shot dead. 2013-11-29
A bomb detonates outside a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk, Iraq, killing 12 worshipers and injuring another 24. 2013-10-15
Voters in Iraq take part in parliamentary elections and a referendum on the Status of Forces Agreement. 2010-03-7