World Sep 27 Around 100 people are dead and 150 injured at a fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq Footage aired by the Iraqi Kurdish television news channel Rudaw shows fireworks setting a chandelier ablaze.
World Mar 21 Overloaded ferry sinks in Tigris near Iraq’s Mosul, killing at least 83 The accident occurred as scores of people were out in the tourist area celebrating the Kurdish new year and the arrival of spring.