Government of Iraq

At least three people were injured in a missile attack that struck the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, state-run Anadolu Agency cited an Iraqi police source as saying on Jan. 27.

At least five katyusha rockets landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq's capital, some of which directly struck the U.S. embassy, caretaker Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said early on Jan. 27.

On Aug. 29, the Treasury Department announced that a senior Islamic State official, Salim Mustafa Muhammad al-Mansur, had been added to the US government’s list of specially designated global terrorists.

Heavy clashes between Turkish army & YPG near Dirbesiye border.

Two Turkish tank destroyed by the YPG.

Turkish army is attacking Firfirk village in Rajo district using heavy weapons & canons, YPG, in turn, responded to the attacks.

Reports coming in say the city of Derbisyie is getting bombed by Turkish warplanes.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has said it is concerned by the recent decision of the governor of Kirkuk to raise the flag of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) over the city of Kirkuk.

The United States said it launched four air strikes against Islamic State militants threatening the Haditha Dam in western Iraq on Sept. 7, broadening its campaign against the fighters.
   
It was Washington's first offensive into Iraq's western Anbar province since it started air strikes on Islamic State forces in the north of the country in August.
   

Iraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups" and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country's U.N. envoy told the United Nations.