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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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During the relentless bombing of Japan in 1945, North Field on Tinian, with its four 8,000-foot runways and 40,000 personnel, became the largest and busiest airport in the world.
Yoshito Matsushige (松重 美人, Matsushige Yoshito, January 2, 1913 – January 16, 2005) was a Japanese photojournalist who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known.
Qahtaniyah bombings; S. Sinjar massacre; Y. Yazidi genocide; April 2007 Yazidi massacre; 1935 Yazidi revolt This page was last edited on 22 August 2020, at 21:40 ...
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 ...
It was formed in 2007 to protect Yazidis in the wake of the Qahtaniyah bombings. [7] It is the second largest Yazidi militia, after the pro- KRG Êzîdxan Protection Force (HPÊ). [ 8 ] However, it is much more active than the HPÊ in fighting against the Islamic State .