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The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis), a private military company contracted by the United States government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy.
In September 2005, the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) deployed to Haditha, an agricultural town along the Euphrates river in western Iraq. [12] Prior to the deployment, a Guardian investigation reported that two Iraqi insurgent groups—Ansar al-Sunna and Al-Qaeda—had taken over operations of the town after driving out local police and civil servants. [13]
On the 2nd of September, more than 100 members of the families of the killed and missing cadets and soldiers broke into the Iraqi Parliament and hit three of the security guards. [18] After a day, a session started in the parliament with the attendance of representatives of the families and Sa'dun al-Dulaimi , along with other military ...
Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday [, April 18, 2007, ] was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings, mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on November 23, 2006, according to the AP count." [76]
The Haditha massacre was one of the worst U.S. actions during the Iraq War. After a roadside bomb killed a Marine in the town of Haditha in November 2005, the rest of his squad shot dead 24 ...
By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war [7] and over 1,000 civilians. [8] [9] [10] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base, [7] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more ...
On May 11, 2009, five United States military personnel were fatally shot at a military counseling clinic at Camp Liberty, Iraq by Army Sergeant John M. Russell. In the days before the killings, witnesses stated Russell had become distant and was having suicidal thoughts.
February 14 - 10 soldiers were killed when a police station was overrun in Fallujah. [699] March March 8 - Three soldiers were killed when they were ambushed while on their way to work in Baghdad. [700] March 17 - One soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul. [701] March 22 - One soldier was killed by a car bomb at Anaconda air base in ...