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The Haditha massacre is a war crime commited on November 19, 2005, in which a group of United States Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians. [1][2] The killings occurred in the city of Haditha in Iraq 's western province of Al Anbar. Among the dead were men, women, elderly people and children as young as three years old, who were shot ...
40 killed. The Battle of Haditha took place between U.S. forces and Ansar al-Sunna in early August 2005 on the outskirts of the town of Haditha, Iraq, which was one of the many towns that were under insurgent control in the Euphrates River valley during 2005. The battle was initiated when a pair of three-man United States Marine Corps STA ...
Battle of Nasiriyah. A USMC Assault Amphibious Vehicle destroyed at Nasiriyah, Iraq, in a maintenance area. 11 April 2003. The Battle of Nasiriyah was fought between the US 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Iraqi forces from 23 March to 2 April 2003 during the US-led invasion of Iraq. On the night of 24–25 March, the bulk of the Marines of ...
The Marines swept west to east from Al Asad and seized a large number of bombs. Battle of Husaybah: 17 April 2004: 17 April 2004: Husaybah: Battle: Five Marines were killed along with 150 insurgents in the fierce battle that lasted 14 hours. Another 9 marines were wounded and 20 insurgents captured. Operation Yellow Stone: 23 April 2004: 23 ...
Operation Phantom Fury: The Assault and Capture of Fallujah, Iraq, by Dick Camp (2009) (ISBN 978-0-7603-3698-4) New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah, by Richard S. Lowry (2010) (ISBN 1-932714-77-4) plus Presentation at the Pritzker Military Library on 3 November 2011; Elliot Ackerman (2019). Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning ...
First Battle of Fallujah. A U.S. Marine from the 1st Marine Division mans an M240G machine gun outside the Fallujah city limits in April 2004. The First Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an operation against militants in Fallujah as well as an attempt to apprehend or kill the perpetrators of the killing of four U.S ...
Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday [, April 18, 2007, ] was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings, mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on November 23, 2006, according to the AP count." [76]
269 wounded. 250 killed. The Battle of Ramadi was fought in the spring of 2004, during the same time as the First Battle of Fallujah, for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. [5] A coalition military force consisting of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines were stationed to defend the city from an insurgent assault.