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These attacks have resulted in injuries to dozens of troops. On 28 January 2024, a Shahed 136 drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted Tower 22, a US base in Jordan, resulting in the deaths of three US troops and causing injuries to 47 others. [11] [12]
Triple Canopy is known principally for providing security in Iraq, particularly for guarding Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters throughout the country. [5] In April 2009, contracts in Iraq handled by Blackwater USA , then under investigation for rule-breaking and violence, were assigned by the State Department to Triple Canopy.
The attackers were killed or captured during a four-hour firefight with US Marines, defence contractors from Triple Canopy, and No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment, along with overhead helicopter fire support within Camp Bastion's perimeter fence given directly by British Apache AH1s from the UK's Joint Aviation Group, USMC AH-1W SuperCobras and ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A huge blast at a military base in Iraq early on Saturday killed a member of an Iraqi security force that includes Iran-backed groups. The force commander said it was an attack ...
The Green Zone was shelled with rocket and mortar fire almost daily from March 23, 2008, until May 5, 2008, causing numerous civilian and military casualties; as stated in a USA Today article, [10] a high percentage of the rocket and mortar fire originated in Sadr City. On April 6, 2008, two U.S. soldiers were killed and 17 more wounded when a ...
August 12, 2009 – American, Kenneth Rose was killed by a roadside bomb in Fallujah. He was working as a private contractor. [114] September 1, 2009 – American, Adam Hermanson, was electrocuted in Baghdad. He was working for Triple Canopy as a PMC.
In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stood before lawmakers and experts at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., and proclaimed, “Today, Iraq has become a peaceful, democratic country that relies on its democratic institutions.” At the time, violence in the country was at its lowest since the start of the Iraq War in ...
This article lists all major bombings after 9 December 2017. For bombings that occurred prior this date see List of bombings during the Iraq War or List of bombings during the Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)