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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.
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On August 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, ... Hiroshima today looks completely different than it did 73 years ago. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on ...
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 ...
In the days, weeks and years following the atomic bombing of Japan, trained and untrained artists who survived the bombings began documenting their experiences in artworks. [1] The U.S. occupation authorities controlled the release of photographs and film footage of these events, while photographers and artists on the ground continued to ...
Operation Marne Torch refers to two operations launched by U.S.-led Coalition forces in 2007 against Islamic State of Iraq in the Arab Jabour area of Babil province.This campaign is named after Operation Torch, the joint US/British invasion of French North Africa in 1942, [3] presumably because of the two operations' similar thrust into the enemies' southern underbellies.
The Mosque in 2006 after the first bombing. The Al-Askari Mosque was bombed twice, over two years. On February 22, 2006, at 6:55 a.m. local time (0355 UTC) explosions occurred at the mosque, effectively destroying its golden dome and severely damaging the mosque. Several men belonging to Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups affiliated with Al-Qaida ...