2019 in Iraq
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Incumbents
Events
- January 24 – Iraqi parliament approves the yearly budget after weeks of deadlock.[1]
- March 21 – Mosul ferry sinking, 103 drowned of Kurdish revelers celebrating the new year.[2]
- August 20 – Popular Mobilization, a Shia-dominated military group, blames the United States and Israel for an explosion at Balad airbase in Salahuddin province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.[3]
- September 30 – Iraq reopens a border-crossing with Syria after 8 years of closure. [4]
- October 1– anti government Protests break out all the way across Iraq. The Iraqi government declared a curfew in few cities as well as limit social media and internet access in an attempt to suppress the protests.[5]
Deaths
- January 18 - Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, 80, Iraqi archaeologist.
- January 28 - Tahseen Said, 86, Iraqi politician, Emir of the Yazidis (since 1944).
- February 2 - Alaa Mashzoub, 50, Iraqi novelist and writer, expert on the History of the Jews in Iraq, shot.
- May 3 - George Hanna, 90, Iraqi-American basketball player.
- May 13 - Kochavi Shemesh, 75, Iraqi-born Israeli lawyer and social activist, leader of the Black Panthers protest movement.
- 26 May - Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri, 78, Iraqi media scholar, academic and poet.
- July 7 - Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
- October 29 - Safaa Al Sarai, 26, activist
References
- ^ "Iraq parliament approves budget ending weeks of deadlock". Middle East Monitor. 2019-01-24. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
- ^ "Overloaded ferry sinks in Tigris River near Iraq's Mosul, killing 71". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
- ^ "Iraq paramilitary force blames US and Israel for mystery blasts", BBC News, August 21, 2019, retrieved August 21, 2019
- ^ Aboulenein, Ahmed (30 September 2019). "Iraq reopens Syria crossing in win for mutual ally Iran".
- ^ "Iraq protests: Curfew imposed in Baghdad amid widespread unrest". 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2025-02-25.