2017 in Iraq

Events in the year 2017 in Iraq.

Incumbents

 * President: Fuad Masum
 * Prime Minister: Haider al-Abadi
 * Vice President: Nouri al-Maliki, Usama al-Nujayfi, Ayad Allawi

Events

 * 2 January – a series of suicide car bombings took place in Sadr City and behind the Kindi and Imam Ali hospitals in Baghdad, killing 56 people and injuring more than 120.
 * 27 March – the American-led coalition conducted a bombing of the al-Aghawat al-Jadidah neighborhood in Western Mosul on 17 March 2017 that killed hundreds of civilians.
 * 21 June – The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul was destroyed during the battle by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
 * 29 September – Iraqi government official threat to Kurdish to close a border in Northern Iraq follow vote for independence referendum.
 * 3 October – Former President of Iraq Jalal Talabani dies in Berlin, Germany aged 83.

October

 * October 3: Jalal Talabani, Iraqi politician, former president (born 1933)