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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of a military operation to recapture Falluja from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. [http:--www.cbsnews.com-news-iraq-announces-operation-to-retake-isis-held-city-of-fallujah- (CBS News)] [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-middle-east-36354319 (BBC)]Siege of Fallujah (2016)
2016-05-22

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of a military operation to recapture Falluja from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
2016-05-22

At least 69 people are killed and 230 injured in a series of bomb attacks targeting Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, Iraq. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claims responsibility for some of the attacks. [https:--www.nytimes.com-aponline-2016-05-17-world-middleeast-ap-ml-iraq-the-latest.html ("The New York Times")] [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-mideast-crisis-iraq-blast-idUSKCN0Y8103 (Reuters)] [http:--www.presstv.ir-Detail-2016-05-17-466035-Iraq-Baghdad-bomb-blasts-terrorism (Press TV)] 17 May 2016 Baghdad bombings
2016-05-17

The Pentagon announces the death of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL) leader Abu Waheeb and three other militants in an airstrike near the town of Rutba, Iraq.
2016-05-9

Two Sunni mosques are bombed in central Iraq and a muezzin is killed amid fears of renewals of sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia.
2016-01-4

Clashes with ISIL in Anbar province kill twenty-three Iraqi Army soldiers and allied Sunni fighters.
2015-01-6

Iraqi forces expel ISIS from the refinery town of Baiji in northern Iraq.
2014-11-14

Islamic State claims responsibility for a triple suicide bombing in Iraq's Diyala Province that killed 26 Kurds as well as an attack in Anbar Province that killed the head of security.
2014-10-12

A suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in western Anbar province kills several people.
2010-12-12

Two bombs killed 42 people and wounded 65 others in Iraq's mainly Sunni Diyala province, prior to the release of full preliminary results from the March 7 parliamentary election.
2010-03-27