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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
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 .
In mid-May 2005, Task Force 3/2 and elements of Task Force 3/25 (3rd Battalion/2nd Marines, 3rd Battalion/25th Marines, 4th Assault Amphibian Bn, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Bn Bravo Company, B Co 4th Combat Engineer Bn, 2nd Platoon A Co 1st Tank Bn, and a detachment of H-1's from HMLA 269 ) supported by the 163rd Ordnance, conducted a sweep of an insurgent-held area near the Syrian border.
The following is a list of alleged and confirmed attacks carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq organization between 2006 and 2012: . The 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings were a series of attacks that occurred when five car bombs exploded across Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, on 18 April 2007, killing nearly 200 people. [1]
Nagasaki, Japan [s 2] [s 3] [s 5] V-J Day in Times Square: 14 August 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen) New York City, United States The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day. [48] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6] Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb 1945 ...
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In mid-October 2006, al-Qaeda announced the creation of Islamic state of Iraq (ISI), [10] replacing the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) and its al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).. From January to June 2007, in conjunction with the U.S. military's troop surge strategy, an additional five U.S. brigades were deployed to Iraq, with their primary focus on the Baghdad Belts—a series of key areas surrounding ...
In mid-October 2006, al-Qaeda announced the creation of Islamic state of Iraq (ISI), [4] replacing the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) and its al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).. Two major combined Coalition-Iraqi Security Force offensive operations launched in early-to-mid-2007, Operation Imposing Law in Baghdad and Operation Phantom Thunder in the belts surrounding the capital, reduced the effectiveness ...