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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 US Air Force plans to bring the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission as it tries to broaden its basing options in the event of any ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
OSLO (Reuters) -Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who ...
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 ...