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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;
War of Dagestan: Sep 4-16 Bombings 293: 1,000+ Russia Russian apartment bombings: A series of bombings at apartment buildings. The first occurred on 4 September in Buynaksk, Dagestan, the next bombings occurred in Moscow on the 9th and 13th. The final bombing occurred on the 16th in Volgodonsk. Overall, 293 people were killed and over 1,000 ...
The Hooded Man (or The Man on the Box) [1] is an image showing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. The photo has been portrayed as an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, [1] "the defining image of the scandal" [2] [3] and "symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib". [4]
Nihon Hidankyo is a nation-wide organisation formed by survivor groups of atomic bomb victims from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in each prefecture. [4] The fallout from Castle Bravo , a thermonuclear weapon test conducted at Bikini Atoll by the United States in 1954, caused acute radiation syndrome in residents of neighbouring atolls and 23 crew ...
First lieutenant Marcus Elmo McDilda (December 15, 1921 – August 16, 1998) was an American P-51 fighter pilot who was shot down over Osaka and captured by the Japanese on 8 August 1945, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Before the outbreak of war, the USAAF had planned to bomb Japan from Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines and coastal areas in China. [9] However, these areas were rapidly captured by Japanese forces, and the USAAF heavy bomber force in the Philippines was largely destroyed when Clark Air Base was attacked on 8 December 1941. [11]