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.