2017 in Iraq explained

Events in the year 2017 in Iraq.

Incumbents

2 January – a series of suicide car bombings took place in Sadr City and behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals in Baghdad, killing 56 people and injuring more than 120.
27 March – the American-led coalition conducted a bombing of the al-Aghawat al-Jadidah neighborhood in Western Mosul on 17 March 2017 that killed hundreds of civilians.^[1]
21 June – The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul was destroyed during the battle by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.^[2]
29 September - Iraqi government official threat to Kurdish to close a border in Northern Iraq follow vote for independence referendum.^[3]
3 October – Former President of Iraq Jalal Talabani dies in Berlin, Germany aged 83.^[4]

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News: Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83 . . 3 October 2017 . 3 October 2017 . 4 October 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171004000237/https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/obituaries/jalal-talabani-kurdish-dead.html . live .