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The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq. 796 people were killed and at least 1,500 others were wounded, [1] [2] [3] making it the Iraq War's deadliest car bomb
The Qahtaniyah bombings kills nearly 800; this was the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb attack during the period of major American combat operations. It was also the third deadliest act of terrorism in history, only being surpassed by the September 11 attacks in the United States and the Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq .
The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).Assassinations are presented in List of assassinations and unsuccessful attempts at List of people who survived assassination attempts and List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.
February 2016 Sayyidah Zaynab bombings: Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and later launched two suicide bombings, about 400 meters from Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque, a Shi'ite shrine, believed to contain the grave of Islamic prophet Muhammad's granddaughter. 83 to 134 people were killed and 180 wounded, including children. Syrian media ...
Qahtaniyah bombings; S. Sinjar massacre; Y. Yazidi genocide; April 2007 Yazidi massacre; 1935 Yazidi revolt This page was last edited on 22 August 2020, at 21:40 ...
The murders and disappearances of opponents of the military regime in Brazil were investigated by the National Truth Commission (CNV), by state truth commissions, by human rights entities and by victims' own relatives. In these various investigations, there is a discrepancy in the numbers of deaths and missing persons computed.
This is a list of mass or spree killers that were considered by reliable sources to have been motivated by political or religious causes. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves.
A car destroyed by the March 5 bombing. This article is a list of suicide bombings during 2007 in Iraq. January 8: A suicide truck bomber attacked a checkpoint in Ramadi killing two policemen. [1] January 10: Two suicide bombers attacked separately in Tal Afar killing five people and wounding 15 others. [2]