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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.
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 first series of attacks started in October when Christians families were given choice of death or converting to Islam. [4] By the end of the month around 14 Christians were killed [5] and more than 13,000 were forced to flee to Nineveh Plains. [6] The Iraqi government gave $900,000 to help the refugees. [6]
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 ...
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A Brazilian photographer, Fernando Braga, went viral recently for his stunning image of lightning striking the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. “It was unbelievable at first. Like a ...
Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
The Quran, as we have already argued, does not deny the death of Christ. Rather, it challenges human beings who in their folly have deluded themselves into believing that they would vanquish the divine Word, Jesus Christ the Messenger of God. The death of Jesus is asserted several times and in various contexts (Quran 3:55; 5:117; 19:33).