Sources: Reuters
A fire at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 82 people and injures more than 100 others. 2021-04-24
Turkish troops have now advanced 40 km inside northern Iraq and established over 30 "temporary bases" in its ongoing military offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), according to a Turkish official. An unnamed Turkish official tells Reuters the unprecedented advance is a prelude to an assault on the Qandil Mountains, the PKK's main stronghold in Iraq. 2020-07-22
Fifteen more people are killed in clashes between security forces and protestors in Iraq, raising the overall death toll to 222 since protests began this month. 2019-10-26
Iraqi police and al-Hashd al-Shaabi troops raid ISIL locations in Hawija, Kirkuk, and seize tunnels and arms caches. 2018-05-1
The pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces militia takes control of the mostly destroyed ancient city of Hatra in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate, following clashes with ISIL, who seized the ruins in 2014. 2017-04-26
Iraqi security forces free a large number of prisoners from an underground ISIL-operated jail in the city of Hīt. Malallah al-Obeidi, a local official in the Al Anbar Governorate, put the number of freed prisoners at around 1,500, saying most of them were civilians. 2016-04-2
Twelve people die and dozens of inmates escape in a prison break in Tikrit, Iraq. 2012-09-28
At least 6 people are killed and at least 15 others are injured in a suicide attack in Baladruz, Iraq. 2011-04-28
The death toll from the suicide bombing of a cafe in the Diyala Governorate near Baghdad, Iraq reaches 22. 2010-10-29