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The 1991 Altun Kupri massacre (Turkish: Altınköprü Katliamı, Arabic: مذبحة التون کوبري) occurred on 28 March 1991 in the Turkmen town of Altun Kupri, Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq. The massacre targeted Turkmens, in particular males, both children and adults alike, and was organized by security forces affiliated with Saddam ...
In April 1994, the U.S. officials said Iraq was continuing a military campaign in Iraq's remote marshes. [25] Iraq saw further unrest in its Shia dominated provinces in early 1999 following the killing of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr by the government. Like the 1991 uprisings, the 1999 uprising was violently suppressed.
It was then widely used to bury civilians, protesters, defectors, and armed resistance groups that participated in the 1991 Iraqi uprisings [3] In the span of 21 years of searching, 3115 bodies from the 1991 Iraqi uprisings have been found in total [4] and 605-755 bodies from the Anfal campaign have been found in total. [5] [6] [7]
By Sinan Salaheddin and Qassim Abdul-Zahra BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi officials discovered 50 bodies, many of them blindfolded and with their hands bound, in an agricultural area outside a city south ...
March 2006, US troops killed 4 Iraq prisoners. [52] Between May 7 and 8, 2006, 51 bodies were found in Baghdad, all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head and abdomen. [53] July 9, 2006, Hay al Jihad massacre on by Shia militia, 40 killed. [54]
Two Iraqi T-54/55 tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. The attack began on the 26th when A-6 Intruder attack jets of the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing blocked the head and tail of the column on Highway 80, bombarding a massive vehicle column of mostly Iraqi Regular Army forces with Mk-20 Rockeye II cluster bombs, effectively boxing in the Iraqi ...
A cold case involving a woman whose body was found on a hilltop has been cracked 33 years later, California police reported. Danielle Clause, 42, was found dead on July 16, 1991, the Ventura ...
Highway 80 on 18 Apr 1991. 15 January -The deadline for Iraq compliance with the UN Resolution 678, which stipulated that Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait. Iraq fails to comply. [1] 17 January - Operation Desert storm starts with the American led coalition forces sending hundreds of planes on to carry out around 400 bombing raids into Iraq. [1]