On January 25, 2006, Bassem Al Obaidi was arrested by members of the American and Iraqi armed forces, wearing their respective military uniforms, during a raid at his house in Baqubah. When the family asked about their identity, the members of the Iraqi armed forces answered that they were part of the Iraqi National Guard and were located in Al Quds Square on the main road between Baghdad and Diyala Governorate. Following his arrest, Al Obaidi was taken to an unknown location and his fate and whereabouts remain unknown to date.

On December 27, 2006, Qassim Al Obaidi was driving his car north towards the town of Baqubah when he arrived at the Al Georgia checkpoint, which was under the control of the Iraqi federal police at the time.

While he was on the phone with his brother, Al Obaidi was stopped at the checkpoint, where the police officer took his mobile phone and, after seeing a picture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein as screensaver, shouted at him and abruptly ended his phone call.

On June 15, 2015, Al Sifawi and his family were traveling from Baghdad to Mosul when they were stopped at a checkpoint in Haswa controlled by a group of five militiamen wearing military uniforms, some of whom wore badges of the Hezbollah Brigades. Dozens of other cars were stopped and all passengers were ordered to get out of their vehicles. Men and women were then separated from each other, and approximately 25 men were forced into white pick-up trucks without licence plates. Before leaving the area, the militiamen removed all CCTV cameras installed at the neighbouring shops’ entrances.

On August 23, 2014, dozens of members of the SWAT forces dressed in both civilian clothes and military uniforms arrested several acquaintances of Al Aquili whom he had visited earlier.

The SWAT forces then headed towards Al Aquili’s home. They stormed his house before violently arresting him. They tied his hands behind his back and blindfolded him. Members of his family – including children – were held at gunpoint in a separate room. The officers searched Al Aquili’s house before taking him to an unknown location.

On June 2, 2014, five soldiers from the Iraqi army broke into Hasan Al Janabi’s house. Unable to find him, they asked his wife where her husband was. She replied that hat he was at the family’s farm behind the house. After finding Al Janabi, the soldiers blindfolded him, handcuffed him and arrested him. When his wife asked the soldiers why they were arresting him, they told her that he was being investigated and that they needed to see his ID card. When Al Janabi’s wife and mother returned with Al Janabi’s ID, the soldiers had left the premises taking Al Janabi to an unknown destination.

In recent years, Israa Al Dujaili has taken part in a number of events related to the issue of enforced disappearance in Iraq. Among these, on August 30, 2017, she took part in a sit-in on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. On February 3, 2018, she attended a conference in Karada calling on Iraq to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

On July 14, 2018, Imad Al Tamimi participated in a demonstration on Al Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad in solidarity with demonstrators in the Basra governorate protesting corruption and the chronic mismanagement of resources by the Iraqi government.

At around 1 p.m. on June 16, 2014, while on his way back from taking passengers to Baghdad in his taxi cab, Ahmed was stopped and arrested by a number of masked officers dressed in military clothes at a checkpoint close to Musayib’s main bus station.

On June 16, 2014, at around 1 p.m., between eight and ten officers from the Hezbollah militias and military forces driving Hummers and Silverado cars arrived at Al Janabi’s home in Musayib, in the Babylon Province. Some of the officers were dressed in military clothes, while others wore civilian attire. They arrested Al Janabi without showing a warrant nor giving any reason for his arrest, before driving towards Jurf Al Sakhar – an area that was under the control of the Hezbollah militias at the time.  

On October 26, 2014, in the context of the fight against ISIL, many families fled from Jurf Al Sakhr in Iraq’s Babylon governorate to reach safer areas. The families fleeing included the Al Shahban and Al Mazareia tribes, which are considered the largest tribes in Jurf Al Sakhr. Other smaller tribes also fled, including the Al Jaafari, Al Hamad, Dehaimesh, Al Sab’aa, Al Janabi, Albo Hayia and Al Othman families.