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The incident was featured in "Attack over Baghdad", a season three (2005) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday [16] [17] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world).
The Amiriyah shelter bombing [N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart bombs".
On Easter Sunday April 11, 2004, a battle was fought at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) in Iraq primarily between United States Army truck drivers, air defense artillerymen, armor, military policemen, engineers and miscellaneous logistics personnel and militants from Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, along the Southwest side of the airport wall in an area commonly referred to as Engineer Village.
On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq.
On February 16, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered air strikes on five military targets near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. [2] The strikes came in response to imminent Iraqi threats to aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones. [3] Many countries, including U.S. allies, have condemned the airstrikes, which they have called illegal.
A U.S. drone strike blew up a car in the Iraqi capital Wednesday night, killing a high-ranking commander of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia who is responsible for “directly planning and ...
They were joined by six Royal Air Force (RAF) Tornado GR.1 aircraft (four had FLIR designators) as well as six French Mirage 2000 aircraft for combat air patrol and numerous support aircraft like AWACS. [6] [8] NL-405, one of the aircraft of VFA-27 that took part in the January 13, 1993, air strike, was loaded with Mk.83 bombs.
Sept. 11 attacks: These iconic images from 9/11 are truly unforgettable. September 11 Terrorist Attacks in photos. ... All air traffic at the airport was shut down after the attacks on the World ...