National Holidays in Iraq in 2017

Iraq 2017

Iraq
2017

List of Holidays in Iraq in 2017

Day	Date	Holiday Name	Type	Comments
Sunday	Jan 01	New Year's Day	National Holiday
Friday	Jan 06	Army Day	Regional Holiday	Expect Kurdistan
Tuesday	Mar 21	Eid Norooz	National Holiday	Spring Day
Monday	May 01	Labour Day	National Holiday	International Workers' Day
Sunday	Jun 25	Eid Al Fitr	National Holiday	End of Ramadan
Monday	Jun 26	Eid Al Fitr Holiday	National Holiday
Tuesday	Jun 27	Eid Al Fitr Holiday	National Holiday
Friday	Jul 14	Republic Day	National Holiday
Thursday	Aug 10	Public Holiday	Government Holiday	Government only. Due to heatwave
Friday	Sep 01	Eid Al-Adha	National Holiday	Feast of the Sacrifice
Saturday	Sep 02	Eid Al-Adha Holiday	National Holiday
Sunday	Sep 03	Eid Al-Adha Holiday	National Holiday
Monday	Sep 04	Eid Al-Adha Holiday	National Holiday
Friday	Sep 22	Mawlid al-Nabi	National Holiday	Hijri New Year
Saturday	Sep 30	Ashura	National Holiday	10th day of Muharram
Tuesday	Oct 03	Independence Day	National Holiday	National Day
Friday	Dec 01	Mawlid al-Nabi	National Holiday	Second time in 2017 due to Lunar cycles
Sunday	Dec 10	Victory Day	National Holiday
Monday	Dec 25	Christmas	Not A Public Holiday	Christian only

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