Sources: The Daily Star
At least 69 people are killed, 11 are reported missing, and 43 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Kut, Wasit Governorate, Iraq. The Iraqi government declares three days of mourning and the provincial government files lawsuits against the owners of the mall. 2025-07-17
At least eleven civilians are killed in an attack by an armed group in Miqdadiyah, Diyala Governorate, Iraq. No group has claimed responsibility. 2023-12-1
Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq since 2005, announces that he will step down after November 1. The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament now has to redistribute the authorities of the presidency. 2017-10-29
The pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces militia takes control of the mostly destroyed ancient city of Hatra in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate, following clashes with ISIL, who seized the ruins in 2014. 2017-04-26
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of a military operation to recapture Falluja from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. 2016-05-22
Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia shut their borders to so-called economic migrants, those not coming from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq, leaving thousands stranded at Balkan border crossings. Around 500 migrants from Iran, Morocco, and Algeria gather on the border between Greece and Macedonia to protest the closure. 2015-11-20
Sixteen Iraqi soldiers are killed by militants in an attack on military outposts protecting an oil pipeline in northern Iraq. 2014-02-11
Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq kill more than 30 people including members of the Iraqi security forces. 2013-07-11
A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in the Iraqi city of Basra. 2012-01-14
Two people are killed and six others are wounded during four explosions close to the entrance of the Iraqi central bank building in downtown Baghdad. 2010-06-13