2019 in Iraq

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.
 * 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