2016 in Iraq

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Iraq.

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See also:	Other events of 2016 List of years in Iraq

Incumbents

• President: Fuad Masum
• Prime Minister: Haider al-Abadi
• Vice President: Nouri al-Maliki, Usama al-Nujayfi, Ayad Allawi

Events

• The Islamic State attacked and briefly seized an Iraqi army base in Al Tarah using suicide car bombers and fighters wearing explosive belts on 1 January. The Iraqi army retook the base with the help of coalition airstrikes on the same day.^[1]
• Camp Speicher, an Iraqi military base, was attacked by multiple ISIL suicide and car bombers on 3 January. At least 15 Iraqi military and police personnel were killed.^[2]
• On 12 January, two Islamic State militants set off a bomb outside Al-Jawhara mall in Baghdad, threw hand grenades at passersby, shot at people, and one then killed himself in a suicide bomb attack, killing nine people and injuring 13. Police shot and killed the other militant. In another attack that same day, the Islamic State killed 20 people in a café in Muqdadiya with an IED and a suicide bomb attack.^[3]
• After months of protests Saturday April 30, 2016 Protesters who are supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr breached the Green Zone in Baghdad and stormed the Iraqi Parliament.^[4]
• On 11 May, at least 62 people died in a truck bombing in Bagdad.^[5]
• July 3 – Several suicide car bombings are carried out in a local shopping district in Karrada, Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 281 and injuring more than 200.^[6]

Deaths

• 4 March – Taha Jabir Alalwani, Islamic scholar.(b.1933)^[7]
• 31 March – Zaha Hadid, Architect. (b.1950)^[8]
• 6 May – Abu Waheeb, Islamic state commander.(b.1986)^[9]
• 19 May – Amal Taha, actress.(b.1956)^[10]
• 26 October – Ali Hussein Shihab, footballer.(b.1961)^[11]
• 14 November – Hashim Al-Mosawy, politician.(b.1939)^[12]