Sources: BBC
The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy seizes control of the Marshall Islands-flagged and Greek-operated civilian oil tanker "St Nikolas" in the Gulf of Oman. The tanker had 19 crew members onboard, including 18 Filipinos and one Greek. It was carrying crude oil from Basra, Iraq, to Turkey. 2024-01-11
Iran seizes a foreign tanker, reported to be Iraqi, in the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian state media. The Iranians accuse the tanker of "smuggling fuel for some Arab countries". 2019-08-4
All flights from Iran to Najaf, Iraq, resume following recent disturbances at Al Najaf International Airport. 2018-07-17
ISIL claims responsibility as a response to take back launching of its stronghold Mosul by the Iraqi forces. 2016-10-15
The Turkish military say it carried out air strikes in northern Iraq against targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, hitting weapon stores and shelters. 2016-04-5
Iraqi security forces find the bodies of 53 men shot recently in Hamza south of Baghdad. 2014-07-9
A suicide bomber attacks a cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 12 people and injuring another 38. 2014-03-20
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