Iraqi Airways operates domestic and regional services; its main base is Baghdad International Airport.

Iraqi Airways operated the first domestic commercial scheduled service since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, from Baghdad to Basra, with 100 passengers in a Boeing 727-200, on 4 June 2005.

On 6 November 2005, Iraqi Airways operated a flight from Baghdad to Tehran, Iran, for the first time in twenty-five years.

In June 2009, it was revealed that Iraqi Airways had struck a deal with British aviation authorities to resume direct from Baghdad to London Gatwick Airport; the flights were supposed to begin on 8 August 2009 using a Boeing 737-400 leased from Tor Air and would eventually have seen the Airbus A320-200 operating the route.

[6] In November 2009, Blue Wings, a German airline, began operating flights to Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, Germany on behalf of Iraqi Airways.

When the first flight landed in London, a Kuwaiti lawyer had the General Director Kifah Hassan's documents and passport seized, as well as the plane itself.

[10] On 26 May 2010, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, Iraq's transport minister, said the cabinet had decided on Tuesday to dissolve the company over the next three years and pursue private options to avoid asset claims made by Kuwait over their 1990–91 war.

[11] In February 2012, Iraqi Airways announced that it would resume flights to India, with services to Delhi or Mumbai from Baghdad.

In June 2014, Iraqi Airways suspended services to Mosul due to the capture of the city by ISIL.

The rest of the CRJ fleet was delivered in a version of the former green livery and YI-AQA was quickly painted to match.

After revealing the previous month that it had applied for rights to fly to Malmö, Sweden,[25] Iraqi Airways commenced flights to the city on 28 November 2009.

Kuwait claims to have won $1.2 billion in judgments against Iraqi Airways as a result of the Gulf War.

[citation needed] Iraqi Airways also ordered five Airbus A310-300s in the late 1980s, but war-related sanctions prevented their delivery.

[citation needed] Iraqi Airways' was subject to incidents during the American-Led Gulf Wars with the last occurring on 25 December 1986.

The airline has had the following incidents, accidents and hijackings since it began operations in 1945:[36] Media related to Iraqi Airways at Wikimedia Commons