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The bombings occurred at around 7:20 pm on August 14, 2007, when four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Qahtaniyah and Jazeera (Siba Sheikh Khidir), near Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq. They targeted the Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, [13] [14] using a fuel tanker and three cars.
On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces. [4] As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate. In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the ...
Til Ezer (Kurdish: تل ئهزهر, romanized: Tel Ezêr, [2] [3] Arabic: القحطانية, also known in Arabic as al-Qaḥṭānīya or Qahtaniyah, also spelled Giruzer, Kar Izir, Kahtaniya) is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq.
“I want to apologize on behalf of the Brazilian state for the persecution your ancestors suffered, for all the barbarities, atrocities, cruelties, tortures, prejudice, ignorance, xenophobia and ...
A 2008 research brief by the RAND Corporation on the subject of counter-insurgency tactics in Iraq between 2003 and 2006 [4] depicts a chart that shows that in June and July 2004, Iraqi insurgents began to shift their focus away from attacking coalition forces with roadside bombs and instead began targeting the Iraqi population with suicide bombers and vehicle-borne IEDs.
Prior to the bombing her family immigrated to Japan from Korea to escape starvation. Etsuko Nagano, 16 years old. Nagano lost her brother and sister to the bombing. Senji Yamaguchi, 14 years old. During his lengthy hospitalization Yamaguchi started a survivors' group to petition the Japanese government to provide medical care to victims of the ...
Five players, three hours, one… Survivor! Following Drew’s exit last week, three Rebas stood strong in the Season 45 finale Wednesday, leaving Katurah hungry to axe Dee and Jake desperate to ...
Jesse brings out the happy couple, and they can’t wait to spend time with each other’s families. Joan admits it was “a relief” to finally tell Chock she loves him “because I had been ...