2019 in Iraq
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| See also: | Other events of 2019 List of years in Iraq | ||||
Events[edit]
- March 21: Mosul ferry sinking
- August 20: Popular Mobilisation, 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.[1]
- October 1: 2019 Iraqi Protests
Births[edit]
![[icon]](/web/20200707195612/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (December 2019) |
Deaths[edit]
- January 18 - Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, 80, Iraqi archaeologist.
- January 28 - Tahseen Said, 86, Iraqi politician, Mir 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.
- July 7 - Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
References[edit]
- ^ "Iraq paramilitary force blames US and Israel for mystery blasts", BBC News, August 21, 2019, retrieved August 21, 2019