2017 in Iraq

Events in the year 2017 in Iraq.

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See also:	Other events of 2017 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

• 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]

Deaths

Jalal Talabani

• 19 May – Nawshirwan Mustafa, politician. (b.1944)^[5]
• 3 October – Jalal Talabani, politician, former president (b.1933)

See also

• Timeline of ISIL-related events (2017)