Sources: The Daily Star
Israeli airstrikes kill seven people, including the Hezbollah commander for Iraq, Youssef Hashem, and injure dozens more in Beirut and nearby Khalde, Lebanon. 2026-04-1
Two soldiers are killed and three others are injured during an ambush by Islamic State gunmen in Kirkuk, Iraq. 2022-12-21
Iraq cancels a ministerial meeting and summons the Turkish ambassador as Iraq blames Turkey for a drone strike that killed two high-ranking Iraqi military officers. Officials called it a "blatant Turkish drone attack" in the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. 2020-08-12
Five Kurdish civilians near Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are killed by Turkish airstrikes. 2020-06-19
The United States Air Force carries out strikes using F-15E Strike Eagle jets and drones in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the death of an American civil contractor in a rocket attack on K-1 Air Base in Kirkuk Governorate. The strikes were targeted at the Iranian-backed Kata'ib Hezbollah militia group. A spokesman for Kata'ib Hezbollah, says 19 of its fighters were killed and 35 injured in the American strikes, while vowing to respond. 2019-12-29
Four Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on their base in Iraq by Kurdish forces. Twenty PKK members were also killed in the attack. 2019-05-4
Flights from Iran to Najaf, Iraq, are diverted to Baghdad due to anti-government protests. 2018-07-15
The U.S. Department of Justice announces it intends to appeal yesterday's ruling that an unnamed detained ISIL suspect in the custody of U.S. troops in Iraq cannot be transferred to an unnamed foreign nation. The man has dual U.S.-Saudi Arabian citizenship. 2018-04-20
Iraq announces that its war against Islamic State (IS) is over. The United States Department of State welcomes the end of the "vile occupation" and says that the fight continues. 2017-12-9
The Iraqi Armed Forces enter the town of Al-Qa'im, close to the border with Syria. Al-Qa'im is one of the last towns in Iraq still held by ISIL. 2017-11-3