2019_in_Iraq Knowpia

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See also:	Other events of 2019; List of years in Iraq

Events of 2019 in Iraq.

Incumbents edit

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

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

^ "Overloaded ferry sinks in Tigris River near Iraq's Mosul, killing 71". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
^ "Iraq paramilitary force blames US and Israel for mystery blasts", BBC News, August 21, 2019, retrieved August 21, 2019