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Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre are murders that occurred on August 10, 2012, at the Forward Operating Base Delhi within Garmsir village, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. A young man, who had been allowed to live on the base, killed three unarmed U.S. Marines; one Marine was also severely injured. [2]
On August 10, 2012 an Afghan teenager entered an on-base gym and fired an AK-47 killing 3 US Marines and injuring another. The incident is being investigated by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the US Attorney's Office in New York .
February 23 - 2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests. The Taliban urges Afghans to target foreign bases and kill Westerners in response to burnings of the Koran at a US base as a third day of violent protests occurs, with six people having been shot dead so far. Afghan protesters attack a Norwegian base in Faryab province on the Turkmenistan ...
The blast at 5:36 p.m. on August 26, 2021, outside Hamid Karzai International Airport marked the worst casualty incident for Afghan civilians and US troops in Afghanistan in over a decade.
BY RAHIM FAIEZ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people in the ...
“Those fallen and wounded at Abbey Gate deserved our best efforts,” he added, referring to the spot where the Americans were killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, ISIS-K suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai ...
16 August 2012 Iraq attacks: Attacks across Baghdad, with most casualties from two car bombings in the predominantly Shi'ite districts of Zaafaraniya and Sadr City. Other attacks took place across the central and northern parts of the country, killing 76 and injuring 240 others. [41] [42] [43] 20 August Car bombing 9 69 Gaziantep, Turkey
A U.S. Marine sergeant runs to safety as an IED explodes in the Garmsir district of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province on July 13, 2009. (Manpreet Romana / AFP / Getty Images) At home, as the rest of America gradually decided to oppose the wars as wrong and unjustified or futile, it became difficult for troops and their families to justify long ...