Sources: The Daily Star
Three Sinjar Resistance Units militants are killed by a Turkish drone strike in Sinjar District, Iraq. 2023-05-23
Five Iraqis from Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, are shot and killed by gunmen on a road in Mardin Province, Turkey. Two of the victims were prominent imams in Duhok. 2023-01-19
A U.S. federal judge blocks until June 20 the release in Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled territory of a dual-nationality Saudi-American citizen alleged to have joined ISIL. The man, who is now held for nine months in Iraq, was planned to be released by the U.S. military β with a new cell phone, some food and water and $4,210 in cash, but with no identification β as soon as tomorrow. 2018-06-8
Eight Turkish soldiers and 21 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants are killed in clashes and in a subsequent helicopter crash near Turkey's border with Iraq. 2016-05-13
The United States Air Force deploys B-52 bombers to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to join operations against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. This is the first time they have been stationed in the Middle East since the end of the Gulf War in 1991. 2016-04-9
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford makes a proposal to President Barack Obama to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, so as to help the Iraqi Army with advisors closer to the front lines and to recapture Mosul, which fell to ISIL in June 2014. 2016-03-26
A suicide bombing inside a Sunni mosque in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala kills at least twenty people. 2013-07-19
The last convoy of United States Army soldiers withdraws from Iraq, marking the formal end of the Iraq War. 2011-12-18
At least 22 people are killed and at least 53 others are injured after a car bomb explodes at a market in Al Khalis, Diyala in Iraq. 2010-05-21
Tony Blair appears at the Iraq Inquiry and is questioned in public for the first time about his decision to take the United Kingdom to war against Iraq. 2010-01-29