2019 in Iraq
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Events of 2019 in Iraq.
Incumbents
- President: Barham Salih
- Prime Minister: Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Events
- March 21: Mosul ferry sinking, 103 drowned of Kurdish revelers celebrating the new year.[1]
- 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.[2]
- October 1: 2019 Iraqi Protests
Deaths
- January 18 - Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, 80, Iraqi archaeologist.
- January 28 - Tahseen Said, 86, Iraqi politician, Emir 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.
- 26 May - Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri, 78, Iraqi media scholar, academic and poet.
- July 7 - Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
- October 29 - Safaa Al Sarai, 26, activist
References
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- Category:Years of the 20th century in Iraq
- Category:Years of the 21st century in Iraq