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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 .
Part of the Iraqi civil war (2006–2008) Al-Hamdaniya District, Nineveh Governorate. Location: ... Qahtaniyah bombings, later that same year in August 2007;
A car destroyed by the March 5 bombing. This article is a list of suicide bombings during 2007 in Iraq. January 8: A suicide truck bomber attacked a checkpoint in Ramadi killing two policemen. [1] January 10: Two suicide bombers attacked separately in Tal Afar killing five people and wounding 15 others. [2]
Syrian Civil War: 3 July Bombing 347+ 250+ Baghdad, Iraq: 2016 Karrada bombing: At least 346 people were killed, and over 246 injured, in a series of coordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad. Early in the evening of July 3, a large car bomb exploded in the middle of a busy market, killing nearly 346 civilians. [41]
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.
Pages in category "Massacres of the Iraq War" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Qahtaniyah bombings; T. 2007 Tal Afar bombings and ...
On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces. [4] As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate. In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the ...