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Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate.
2024-08-29

A USAF MQ-9 Reaper kills three Kata'ib Hezbollah militants in a precision airstrike using a Hellfire missile, including a high ranking commander, in Baghdad, Iraq.
2024-02-7

Islamic State carries out a pair of attacks in the Iraqi Diyala and Kirkuk Governorates, killing twelve civilians and injuring another six.
2022-05-23

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

A rocket attack on K-1 Air Base in Iraq's Kirkuk Governorate, kills an American civilian contractor and injures several U.S. and Iraqi troops. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2019-12-27

Iraqi forces complete the takeover of Kirkuk Governorate, which is outside the autonomous zone accorded by the Constitution of Iraq. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani calls for the state to protect Kurds in northern Iraq.
2017-10-21

The Iraqi Army and allied paramilitary fighters storm the ISIL-held city of Hawija in the Kirkuk Governorate. Hawija is one of the last remaining ISIL strongholds in Iraq.
2017-10-4

Islamic State fighters kill Kurdish commander Brigadier General Shirko Rauf and five other peshmerga soldiers in heavy fighting in Iraq's Kirkuk province.
2015-01-30

The Kurdish region’s military forces, the Peshmerga Ministry, states that over 700 Iraqi Kurds have died fighting ISIL forces since June.
2014-12-10

Iraq is poised to sign $12b gas deal with Shell Oil Company.
2011-02-7