This is a timeline of events during the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017 in its final year.
Chronology
January 2 January – January 2017 Baghdad bombings: A series of car bombings in Sadr City and other parts of Baghdad killed at least 56 people and injured more than 120 others. Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked two police stations in the central Iraqi city of Samarra, killing at least 7 officers. 5 January – A car bombing at a food market in the al-Obeidi area in Baghdad killed 9 people and left 15 others wounded. After nightfall a suicide car bomber killed 11 and injured 22 near a security checkpoint in Bab al-Muadam. Several smaller attacks around the city killed 7 people and injured 20 others. 6 January – A police checkpoint near Tikrit was attacked by suicide bombers and a car bomb. Four police officers and two attackers were killed, while 12 others were injured. 8 January – Islamic State claimed responsibility for a pair of suicide car bombings in Baghdad. At least 20 were killed and more than 50 others were injured. 11 January – A car bomb detonated in the al-Bayaa district of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five others. 14 January – Islamic State militants burned a family of five people (a mother and four children) in Kirkuk. 16 January – One person was killed and five others were wounded when two explosive devices exploded in Baghdad. 18 January – A car bomb blast hit the mostly Shi'ite neighborhood of Abu Dsheer in Baghdad. 20 January – An Iraqi elder and his grandson were killed in western Mosul in an explosion caused by a bomb dropped from an Islamic State guided drone. 24 January – the Eastern half of Mosul city had been liberated from ISIL control, and the Iraqi Army began advancing into Western Mosul soon after. 25 January – Two explosions caused by car bombs killed two civilians and wounded nine others in the Iraqi capital. 26 January – A bombing at a market in south Baghdad killed one person and wounded five others. Earlier in the day, an attack on a militia-held checkpoint killed one and injured three. An Islamic State drone dropped explosives on a house in central Mosul wounding three members of the same family 28 January – A bomb kills one and another four were injured in Baghdad. A suicide bombing in Fallujah kills at least two police officers and another two were injured. 30 January – An explosion killed one person and wounded four near a market in southern Baghdad. An explosion in Mosul left at least three children dead.
February 1 February – The Islamic State executed five civilians in Hawija. 2 February – An explosion killed one person and wounded three near a market in southern Baghdad. Another bombing earlier wounded two civilians. 7 February – The Islamic State executed fifteen civilians in a village north of Mosul. 8 February – The Islamic State executed twenty civilians in Mosul by burning them for alleged collaboration with Iraqi security forces. Seven Islamic State fighters were also executed for desertion. One person was killed and nineteen were wounded by Islamic State drone strikes. A roadside bomb blast killed two Iraqi troops in western Iraq on Wednesday, according to a military officer. The explosion struck as a military vehicle was passing on a highway in western Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province. 9 February – Nine persons were killed in two rocket attacks in east Mosul. 10 February – At least ten people were killed and 33 others wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. 12 February – Islamic State militants burned to death 15 civilians in Kirkuk, including children, for attempted to escape territory they control. 13 February – The Islamic State shelled a school north of Mosul killing three students and a teacher, and wounding 24 others. 15 February – Several bombings killed eighteen people and wounded at least 30 including a car bomb near a market in baghdad that killed five and wounded 20. Three people were killed and four were wounded by an Islamic State drone strike in eastern Mosul. The Islamic State executed 13 civilians by drowning them in metal cages in Mosul. The Islamic State executed 8 civilians in Hawija. 16 February – At least 59 people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in a car bomb explosion at a car dealership in Baghdad. 17 February – Islamic State militants attacked a Popular Mobilization Forces battalion headquarters southeast of Tikrit, killing eight militia members and injuring an unknown number. 19 February – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, announced the start of the operation to capture western Mosul. Two persons were killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber in eastern Mosul. 20 February – Islamic State drones and rocket shelling killed 11 civilians in areas recaptured by security forces in eastern Mosul. An IED bombing at a market killed one person and wounded four in western Baghdad. 21 February – A car bombing in the southwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriya killed 7 civilians and injured at least 30 others. A police officer was executed by Islamic State militants. 24 February – Islamic State militants attacked an Iraqi border crossing outside of Rutba with a suicide car bomb and gunmen. 15 soldiers were killed including 2 officers. No reports on injuries. 25 February – Four bombs blew up near a pipeline in Kirkuk. One member of the Peshmerga was killed and two others were wounded. 26 February – Prominent Rudaw Media Network journalist Shifa Gardi was killed along with a Popular Mobilization Forces commander and four militia fighters while she was conducting a report on a suspected mass grave south of Mosul. At least 8 others were injured in the roadside bombing, including Gardi's cameraman.
March 1 March – Seven civilians were wounded due to Islamic State chemical attack on western Mosul. 4 March – An improvised explosive device exploded, at noon, near a popular market in al-Shaab area, north of Baghdad, wounding two civilians. 6 March – 4 civilians were killed and 25 others were injured due to Islamic State chemical attack on western Mosul. Islamic State executed eight civilians in Kirkuk. 9 March – 30 civilians were killed and 26 others were injured by two suicide bombers at a wedding in Tikrit, Iraq. 20 March – A car bombing killed 23 people and injured more than 40 others in a commercial area of the southwestern Hayy Al-A'amel suburb. 29 March – A suicide truck bomber targeted a police checkpoint in southern Baghdad, killing 17 people and injuring at least 60 others. 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.
April 2 April – Two improvised explosive devices (IED) injured six Peshmerga troops in west of Tuz Khurmatu, south of Kirkuk. 3 April – Three police personnel were killed and seven troops – four police personnel and three army soldiers – were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq's western city of Fallujah, according to a local military officer. 5 April – 2017 Tikrit attacks: Insurgents kills at least 35 people, including 14 security forces. The attack occurred in Tikrit and was claimed by Islamic State. Seven people were killed in three bombings in Baghdad. The first bombing was planted in a fish market, and three civilians were killed. Four others were also injured. In the second bombing, a civilian was killed and another was injured. In the third bombing, three people were killed and seven injured when a roadside bomb went off amid a group of construction workers. An attack occurred in Baquba: two police officers were killed and four others were injured. A device exploded at a fish market in Yusufiya, south of Baghdad, killing three people and injuring four others, police officer told. 6 April – A bomb kills 1 and another 8 were injured. 7 April – Bombing left one dead and another three were wounded in Southern Baghdad. 10 April – A lone wolf terrorist kills at least 12 people in Kirkuk, Iraq. A bomb kills at least one and another 4 were wounded in North Baghdad. 11 April – Militants from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kills at least 7 people and another 13 were injured. All victims were civilians. 12 April – A bomb kills one and 4 others were injured in southeastern baghdad. 13 April – Insurgent kills at least 2 people in Diyala. All victims were policemen. Terrorist kills at least 1, leaves 4 more injured in southern baghdad. 15 April – A bomb kills one and another were injured in a village northeastern of Diyala. 18 April – A suicide car bombing killed at least 16 civilians in Mosul's al-Thawra district. The bomber attempted to target military units nearby, but having failed to breach security, detonated the vehicle in a nearby alley instead. 23 April – Islamic State militants ambushed a convoy carrying soldiers, border guards and local police officers just outside of Ar-Rutbah, killing 10 and injuring 20 others. 28 April – A suicide car bomb attack on a traffic police compound in central Baghdad Friday killed at least four people and wounded six.
May 2 May – Gunmen killed Younis and his assistant in the Wahid Hozairan Neighborhood located in southern Kirkuk. Fighters from ISIS have killed at least 10 Iraqi soldiers in the country's western province of Anbar, according to officials. 3 May – Two policemen were killed in a suicide bombing by IS terrorists in Iraq's northern Saladin province, according to a local military source. A teacher was killed as a bomb placed under a vehicle exploded in western Baghdad. In another blast, two persons were wounded as a bomb exploded in Nahrawan district, southeast of Baghdad. 5 May – An improvised explosive device (IED) in the south of Kirkuk Province killed a Peshmerga officer and wounded two other soldiers. A suicide bomber, driving a car bomb, blew himself up in the center of Haditha, killing five people and wounding eight others. 6 May – Two civilians were killed, three others were wounded in two blasts that occurred in west of Baghdad. 7 May – Two Kurdish soldiers were killed in an Islamic State attack on a military base in Kirkuk in northern Iraq. 8 May – Two policemen were killed due to an IED blast, south of Ramadi city. A police officer was killed by a group of gunmen at the outskirts of Baquba city. 9 May – Islamic State members executed 47 of their prisoners in Kirkuk's Hawija, including 12 of their comrades. Two civilians died and two others were wounded Tuesday when an explosive device went off north of the city of Ramadi. One person was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb blast rocked an area in southwestern Baghdad. 10 May – An employee of Education Ministry was killed as a bomb exploded in al-Zidan region in abu Ghraib district, western Baghdad. 11 May – One policeman was killed when an armed individual shot at him north of Kirkuk. Four persons were killed and ten injured as a booby-trapped vehicle exploded on Thursday in al-Sho'la district, east of Baghdad. 12 May – A child and her parents died as a mortar shell, believed to be from Islamic State militants, landed on their house. 13 May – A soldier was killed, while a paramilitary personnel was injured as result of an IED blast. 14 May – A booby-trapped car exploded near a bridge of al-Rubaie street, leaving one person killed and five others wounded. 15 May – 4 bombers were sneaking into the town of Haditha, west of Anbar, however, three of the suicide bombers were trapped inside a house and killed by security, while the fourth blew himself up killing two security members. One member of Sunni tribal groups fighting the Islamic State was killed Monday and another was wounded when gunmen attacked their deployment south of Baghdad. 16 May – One person died and two others were wounded when an explosive device went off in northern Baghdad.