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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 occurred at around 8pm local time on August 14, 2007, when four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Kurdish towns of Kahtaniya and Jazeera (Siba Sheikh Khidir), near Mosul. Iraqi Red Crescent's estimates say the bombs killed 796 and wounded 1,562 people, [3] making this the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb ...
Bombings were a regular occurrence during the Iraq War. They resulted in tens of thousands of casualties throughout the country , killing and wounding civilians and combatants alike. Many Iraqi insurgents favoured the tactic of suicide bombing , which was used at a particularly unprecedented scale against the American-led Multi-National Force ...
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 ...
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.
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. [8]
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 1 ...
The Battle of Al-Qa'im (code-named Operation Matador) was a military offensive conducted by the United States Marine Corps, against insurgent positions in Iraq's northwestern Anbar province, which ran from 8 May 2005 to 19 May 2005.