Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq. 796 people were killed and at least 1,500 others were wounded, [1] [2] [3] making it the Iraq War's deadliest car bomb
On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces. [4] As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate. In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the ...
It was formed in 2007 to protect Yazidis in the wake of the Qahtaniyah bombings. [7] It is the second largest Yazidi militia, after the pro- KRG Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPÊ). [ 8 ] However, it is much more active than the HPÊ in fighting against the Islamic State .
Qahtaniyah bombings, later that same year in August 2007; Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State; Sinjar massacre; References This page was last edited on 7 ...
The siege of Basra was initiated by the Mahdi Army (Jaysh al-Mahdi) to capture the city of Basra in 2007. Following the reported major failure of the coalition forces, whose purpose was to stabilise Basra and prepare it for the turning over of security to Iraqi government forces, the city was overrun by insurgent forces from three different Iraqi factions including the Mahdi Army, and the ...
Operation Black Eagle is an operation that took place during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 to 2010. It was the 381st listed operation during the Iraq war in 2003 [1] [circular reference] Black Eagle was an operation in which U.S. Polish, and Iraqi troops battled gunmen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the town of Al Diwaniyah, which is the capital of Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah ...
[24] 16 July 2005 Baghdad 2005 Musayyib bombing: 100 Unknown [25] 17 August 2005 Musayyib: 17 August 2005 Baghdad bombings: 43 Unknown [26] 18 November 2005 Khanaqin: 2005 Khanaqin bombings: 74 Unknown [27] 5 January 2006 Karbala and Ramadi: 5 January 2006 Iraq bombings: 140 Unknown [28] 22 February 2006 Samarra: 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing ...
Operation Steel Curtain (Arabic: الحجاب الفولاذي Al Hejab Elfulathi) was a military operation executed by coalition forces in early November 2005 to reduce the flow of foreign insurgents crossing the border and joining the Iraqi insurgency.