Sources: The Daily Star
Four Yemeni expatriate workers are killed by a drone attack in the Khor Mor gas field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. 2024-04-26
More than 100 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in Qaraqosh, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. 2023-09-26
Two people are wounded in a car bombing in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. 2022-10-20
At least five people are killed in a second day of spontaneous protests against unemployment, government corruption and lack of basic services in Iraq. Police say they have "lost control" of the city of Nassiriya after exchanging gunfire with protesters. Curfews are imposed on the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Nassiriya, Amarah and Hillah. 2019-10-2
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs V. K. Singh travels to Iraq to reclaim the bodies of 38 workers abducted in Mosul by ISIL in 2016 after they were found in a mass grave near Badush last month. 2018-04-1
Police in northern Greece move more than 400 Syrians and Iraqis by bus from a makeshift camp near the Macedonian border to a shelter near the northern city of Thessaloniki. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following European border closures, and the European Union's agreement with Turkey. 2016-06-13
A bomb kills four people and wounds 16 in a park south of Baghdad, Iraq. 2013-08-10
Eleven people are killed in further unrest in Iraq, including eight people in a bombing of a Baghdad marketplace. 2012-07-4
Turkish warplanes carry out strikes against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq. 2012-02-12
Around 60 unsuccessful Iraqi asylum applicants are forcibly and controversially deported to Baghdad from Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. Amnesty International condemns the move as the deportees face violence and mutilation in that city. 2010-06-9