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A criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to the Islamic State and for detaining Yazidi women in her house.
2024-07-10

Turkey says that four Kurdish militants have been killed during airstrikes in Kalar, Iraq.
2022-06-17

Iraqi protesters storm and set fire to the Iranian Consulate General in Najaf.
2019-11-27

Jordan declares its borders with Syria and Iraq are to be closed military zones following yesterday's suicide bomb attack in Rukban, Mafraq Governorate, that killed six soldiers.
2016-06-22

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the death toll from an airstrike on an IS-controlled eastern city near the border with Iraq rose from 25 to 71.
2015-11-7

Iraqi police officials say at least 35 people have been killed following a mortar bombardment of villages near the eastern city of Baqubah, capital of the Diyala Governorate. Officials did not speculate on who may be responsible for the attack, however the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for several recent attacks in the volatile province.
2015-10-9

Two roadside bombs explode in the Iraqi city of Baqubah killing 14 and wounding 26 people.
2013-08-14

Clashes take place between Syrian troops and rebels near the borders of Iraq and Turkey.
2012-11-11

Iraqi Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr urges a rejection of violence and peaceful resistance against the country's "occupiers" in his first public address since his return from exile.
2011-01-8

At least 30 people are killed and 46 others are wounded, including women and children, as a car bomb explodes near a Shia mosque in Abu Sayeeda, Baqubah, Diyala in Iraq.
2010-07-21