5 January – Prime MinisterMohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces that the Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the U.S.-led international military coalition from the country following U.S. drone strike on 4 January.[2]
24 January – The US military launches airstrikes on facilities in Iraq used by Kata'ib Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for the 20 January attack on Al-Asad Airbase.[4]
31 January – Kata'ib Hezbollah suspends operations against the U.S. military in Iraq, to "prevent embarrassment of the Iraqi government".[5]
1 April – The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launches three drones at Eilat, Israel, damaging a building, but not causing injuries.[13]
2 April – A refrigerator truck crashes into a group of children in Basra, killing six and injuring 14.[14]
19 April –
Missiles believed to be fired by the Israel Defense Forces allegedly hit sites near the Iranian city of Isfahan, sites in Iraq and radar sites in Syria.[15]
An Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces command post at the Kalsu military base is hit by an explosion resulting from an air strike, killing one fighter and wounding six others. Security sources say it is not known who was responsible, and Israel and the United States both deny involvement.[16]
9 July – A court in Baghdad sentences Asma Mohamed, a widow of Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her involvement in the group and in the kidnapping of Yazidi women in Sinjar.[24]
30 July –
Four members of Kata'ib Hezbollah are killed in a suspected US strike on a Popular Mobilization Forces base south of Baghdad.[25]
2024 Anbar raid. The US says it had killed 15 operatives of Islamic State in a joint operation with Iraqi security forces in western Iraq that also injured seven American soldiers.[31]
September
5 September – A Turkish drone strike kills three people, including a child, in Iraqi Kurdistan one day after a similar attack on a car in the region killed three people from the same family.[32]
Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, an Islamic State commander for whom the US Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information, is killed during a joint United States–Iraq operation in Al Anbar Governorate. Ahmad Hamed Zwein, an Islamic State deputy commander in Iraq, is also killed in the operation.[34]
25 September – Twenty-one people are executed in Nasiriyah Central Prison after being convicted of terrorism offences.[35]
27 September – Iraq and the United States agree to end the US–led coalition mission in Iraq by September 2025 with all remaining American troops withdrawing by the end of 2026.[36]
3 October – The Iraqi government announces the rescue and repatriation of a 21-year old Yazidi woman who was abducted by Islamic State from Sinjar in 2014 and subsequently taken to the Gaza Strip, where she was trapped during the Israel-Hamas War following the killing of her captor in an Israeli airstrike.[38]
18 October - Four Kentucky men of Iraqi-descent are charged in a conspiracy to smuggle in 38 handguns into Iraq.[39]
19 October -
The headquarters of the Saudi-based news channel MBC in Baghdad is stormed and looted after a report aired on the channel describes several militant groups as "terrorists", including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Mobilization Forces. The Iraqi government subsequently announces that it would revoke the outlet's operating licence.[40]
Clashes between protestors and police break out over demonstrations of arrested activists at Al-Habboubi Square in Nasiriyah.[41]
22 October – Jassim al-Mazroui Abu Abdul Qader, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, is reported killed along with eight other senior IS officials in an operation by security forces in the Hamrin Mountains in Saladin Governorate.[43]
20 November – Iraq holds its first national census since 1997.[45]
24 November – Kurdistan’s Prime Minister Masrour Barzani condemns Iraq’s proposed legislation to lower the legal marriage age to nine, labeling it a severe regression in women’s rights. [46]
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