Sources: AP via ''Daily Mail
Two soldiers are killed and three others are injured during an ambush by Islamic State gunmen in Kirkuk, Iraq. 2022-12-21
A man is sentenced to death in Iraq for shooting two journalists dead while driving home in Basra in January. The court said that the man committed the murders "with the aim of destabilising security and stability and intimidating people for terrorist purposes". 2021-11-1
A Katyusha rocket falls in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, injuring a child and damaging a house. Iraqi security forces also thwart another rocket launched at Camp Taji, which houses U.S. troops. Also, a MIM-104 Patriot defense system shoots down a missile launched against the U.S. embassy. 2020-07-5
Germany announces a partial withdrawal of the Bundeswehr troops positioned in Iraq, citing security concerns. 2020-01-7
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
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
The Turkish military say it carried out air strikes in northern Iraq against targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, hitting weapon stores and shelters. 2016-04-5
Iraq's military reports bombing a convoy possibly carrying Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The group was headed to a meeting in the western Al Anbar Governorate, close to the Syrian border. Eight senior ISIS figures were killed, but al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them according to Iraqi officials. 2015-10-11
The United Nations declares its highest state of emergency in Iraq following the advance of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. 2014-08-14
In two bombing attacks in Iraq, 17 people are killed and 50 others wounded in a blast outside of the Presidential Palaces Mosque in central Tikrit, Iraq; and later by a suicide bomber in a Tikrit hospital treating the wounded from the first attack, killing six people and injuring ten at the hospital. 2011-06-3