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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. February 2024 United States airstrikes in Iraq and Syria Part of the attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria (2023–present) and the Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) Location Iraq and Syria Target Iranian Revolutionary Guards Liwa al-Tafuf Popular Mobilization Forces Kata'ib ...
Triple Canopy is known principally for providing security in Iraq, particularly for guarding Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters throughout the country. [5] In April 2009, contracts in Iraq handled by Blackwater USA , then under investigation for rule-breaking and violence, were assigned by the State Department to Triple Canopy.
By 1999 over 1,800 bombs had been dropped on Iraq, [12] while Iraq stated that 1,400 civilians died due to bombing during the NFZ. [ 5 ] The United States and coalition countries denied these allegations and cited popular Kurdish and Shia demands for no-fly zones, in order to protect against Saddam Hussein.
In August 2007, Russia Today became the first television channel to report live from the North Pole (with the report lasting five minutes and 41 seconds). An RT crew participated in the Arktika 2007 Russian polar expedition, led by Artur Chilingarov on the Akademik Fyodorov icebreaker .
The January 2021 Baghdad bombings were a pair of terrorist attacks that occurred on 21 January 2021, carried out by two suicide bombers at an open-air market in central Baghdad, Iraq. [1] They killed at least 32 people and injured another 110.
The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. Television footage showed flames rushing over the wedding hall as the fire took hold. Civil defense ...
A Russian Su-34 bomber with a FAB-500 bomb. Russian Defense Ministry/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images Russia has been reluctant to use its glide bombs in Kursk, experts say.
August 5, 2003 – American, Fred Bryant Jr., was killed by a roadside bomb near Tikrit. He was working for Kellogg, Brown & Root as a truck driver. [9] August 10, 2003 – Nepali, name unknown, was killed by a riot in Basra. He was working as a PMC. [10] August 19, 2003 – American, Nadan Audisho Younadam, was killed in an ambush in Tikrit.