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The bombings occurred at around 7:20 pm on August 14, 2007, when four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Qahtaniyah and Jazeera (Siba Sheikh Khidir), near Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq. They targeted the Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, [13] [14] using a fuel tanker and three cars.
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 .
Israeli sources say he was planning to bomb Israeli targets. Israel Defense Forces [56] July 25, 2001 Nablus West Bank: Salah Nour al-Din Khalil Darwouza (38) Hamas: Car hit while driving in Nablus. He evaded two missiles from an Apache helicopter, but the car was hit by a further 4. Israel claimed he planned bombing attacks on French Hill, and ...
Qahtaniyah bombings; S. Siege of Lal Masjid; T. 2007 Tal Afar bombings and massacre; Y. 2007 Marib suicide car bombing This page was last edited on 1 January 2021, at ...
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 ...
This list details terrorist incidents occurring in Iraq in 2007. In 2007, the US sent 20,000 additional troops into combat as part of a troop surge. There were 442 bombings in 2007, the second-most in a single year during the Iraq War. Major events included a January 16 attack on Mustansiriyah University, which killed 70 and injured 180, and ...
Til Ezer (Kurdish: تل ئهزهر, romanized: Tel Ezêr, [2] [3] Arabic: القحطانية, also known in Arabic as al-Qaḥṭānīya or Qahtaniyah, also spelled Giruzer, Kar Izir, Kahtaniya) is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq.
Pages in category "Bombings in the Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .