Events of 2019 in Iraq.

• President: Barham Salih
• Prime Minister: Adil Abdul-Mahdi

• January 24 – Iraqi parliament approves the yearly budget after weeks of deadlock.^[1]
• January 26 – After a 16 months ban, Türkiye allows flights to the city of Sulaimaniyah to resume.^[2]

• March 11 – Iranian president Rohani visits Iraq for the first time since becoming president in 2013.^[3]
• March 21 – Mosul ferry sinking in the Tigris river results in about 100 dead revelers who were celebrating the Kurdish the new year and Iraqi mothers day. ^[4][5]

• April 17 – The Iraqi parliament votes on a bill to ban several video games, such as PUBG and Fortnite, accusing them of being harmful and too violent. ^[6]

• May 20 – A rocket lands near US embassy in Baghdad with no casualties.^[7]

• June 27 – Iraqi protesters storm the embassy of Bahrain in Baghdad over the country hosting a US sponsored workshop on Palestine. Bahrain responded by recalling their envoy to Iraq.^[8]

• July 5 – The ancient ruins of Babylon are listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list after decades of campaigning.^[9]

• August 20 – Popular Mobilization, 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.^[10]

• September 20 – A bomb planted in a bus explosion kills 12 and wounds several others outside the city of Karbala.^[11]
• September 30 – Iraq reopens a border-crossing with Syria after 8 years of closure. ^[12]

• October 1– anti government Protests break out all across Iraq. The Iraqi government declared a curfew in few cities as well as limit social media and internet access in an attempt to suppress the protests.^[13]
• October 9 – The death toll of classes between security forces and protesters rises to around 110 with 6,000 wounded since the beginning of the protests. Iraq's prime minster declares 3 days of mourning for those killed.^[14]
• October 11 – Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s senior Shia cleric demands the Iraqi government investigate the violence against demonstrators. ^[14]

• 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