Sources: The Daily Star
Iraqis vote to elect the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, who will elect the country's president and approve the president's appointment of a prime minister. 2025-11-11
The Trump administration is considering sending captured ISIL fighters to a prison in Iraq, as well as sending "high-valued fighters", who participated in the murder of Americans and other Western hostages, to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Human rights groups and the Democratic Party are opposed to holding these people indefinitely without charges and say they should be tried in federal courts. 2018-08-30
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
Islamic State militants attack two gas facilities northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, killing at least five people and wounding six policemen. Three assailants detonated their explosive vests and a fourth was killed in clash with security forces. 2016-07-31
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of a military operation to recapture Falluja from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. [http:--www.cbsnews.com-news-iraq-announces-operation-to-retake-isis-held-city-of-fallujah- (CBS News)] [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-middle-east-36354319 (BBC)] Operation Breaking Terrorism2016-05-22
The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto-threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passes legislation to suspend the Obama administration's program to admit 10,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the country. The bill will now face a vote in the U.S. Senate. 2015-11-19
France says it has carried out its first air-strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant within Syria, destroying a training camp in the east of the country. Previously, France had only carried out air-strikes in Iraq with consent of the Iraqi government. 2015-09-27
A car bomb targets a government building in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Irbil, resulting in four deaths. 2014-11-19
Clashes take place between Syrian troops and rebels near the borders of Iraq and Turkey. 2012-11-11