7 January – Iraqi court issues an arrest warrant for outgoing American presidentDonald Trump for the assassination of Iranian generalQassim Soleimani and Iraqi militia leaderAbu Mahdi al-Muhandis a year earlier.[1]
15 January – The United States announce cutting its troops in Iraq to 2,500, the lowest number since 2003.[2]
15 April –UNESCO announces it's architectural design competition winners for rebuildingAl-Nouri Mosque, which was destroyed duringISIL's presence inMosel.[7]
24 April – Afire at theCOVID-19 quarantine section of al Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad kills at least 82 people and wounds 110 others in one of the worst fires in Iraqi history.[8]
9 May – Protests erupt inKarbala after the killing of prominentrights activist Ihab Jawad Al-Wazni.[9]
19-20 May – Iraqi protesters gather in Palestine street in Baghdad and on the Iraqi-Jordanian borders in support of Palestinians. Calling for an end ofIsraeli bombing and for Iraqi aid to be allowed into Palestine through Jordan.[10]
1 June – Iraq records the first death fromMucormycosis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, with 4 more cases recorded.[11]
4 June – An explosion in Baghdad'sAl Kadhimiya district results in 3 dead and 14 injured.[12]
27 June – Egyptian PresidentAbdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian KingAbdullah II visit Baghdad in a trilateral summit to discuss economic and diplomatic relations in the region.[13]
9 August – Iraq begins flying back Iraqis who had traveled to Belarus and got stuck on the Lithuanian border attempting to cross into the European union as part of theBelarus–EU border crisis.[16][17]
The Gilgamesh Dream tablet, Iraqi Museum, Baghdad28 August – Iraq hosts a regional summit attended by heads of states or representatives from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, France, Kuwait , UAE and Türkiye.[18]
29 August – French PresidentEmmanuel Macron visits the city of Mosul as part of his visit to Iraq that included attending the summit held a day earlier.[19]
23 September – The ancient 3,600 year oldcuneiform tablet known as the "Gilgamesh Dream Tablet", which was looted during the Gulf war 30 years earlier, is returned to Iraqi custody.[20]
Renovations on Taq Kasra start November 202110 October –Iraqi parliamentary elections are held amid low turnout and calls for boycott.Moqtada al-Sadr's party earns the most votes securing 73 out of 329 seats in the parliament.[21]
5 November – Two killed and more than 150+ injured duringclashes in Baghdad between political protestors and security forces.[22]
7 November – Iraqi prime minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi survives anassassination attempt which targeted his residence in theGreen Zone in Baghdad with a drone attack.[23]
Al-Mutanabbi Street25 November – Iraqi authorities announce plans for restoration ofTaq Kasra, a 1,400 ancientSasanian-era monument, south of Baghdad.[24]
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