2019 in Iraq explained

Events of 2019 in Iraq.

Incumbents

• President

• Prime Minister

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.

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Overloaded ferry sinks in Tigris River near Iraq's Mosul, killing 71. NBC News. en. 2019-03-21.