Editing 2005 in Iraq (section)

===January===
[[File:Iraqi voters in Baghdad.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Iraqi parliamentary election, January 2005|Hundreds of voters line up outside a polling place in Baghdad]], 30 January 2005]]
*January 4 – Governor [[Ali Al-Haidri]], governor of [[Baghdad Governorate|Baghdad province]], is [[assassination|assassinated]] along with two of his [[bodyguard]]s.
*January 6 – Seven national guards killed when IED strikes Bradley fighting vehicle.
*January 21 – A suicide car bomb blows up outside a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad killing 14 worshipers and wounding 40.
*January 26 – Thirty-one [[2005 Al-Anbar CH-53E crash|U.S. Marines]] are killed in a helicopter crash near the [[Jordan]] border.
*January 27 – Iraq's expatriates start voting for the [[Iraqi legislative election, January 2005|Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005]]
*January 28 – The [[insurgency]] continues with several dozen Iraqi deaths. Seven U.S. soldiers killed, three in a helicopter crash.
*January 29 – About 17 people died from [[car bomb]]s on the eve of the elections. A [[rocket]] hit the U.S. Embassy compound inside [[Baghdad]]'s fortified [[Green Zone]], killing two people and wounding at least four. According to the embassy spokesman, all of them are Americans.
*January 30 – [[Ghazi Yawer]] was one of the first people to vote in the [[Iraqi legislative election, January 2005|Iraqi National Assembly election]]. Up to 15 British military personnel were killed in Iraq when an air force transport plane crashed northwest of Baghdad. Meanwhile, at least 35 people die in attacks at polling places.
*January 31 – Nine [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] personnel and one soldier are [[Killed in action|KIA]] after a British [[C-130 Hercules|Hercules]] plane comes down {{convert|25|mi|km}} north-west of Baghdad.