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To reduce exposure to ground attack, the aircraft was executing a rapid climbout. At around 8,000 ft (2,400 m) altitude, a 9K34 Strela-3 (SA-14 Gremlin) surface-to-air missile struck the rear of the left wing between the engine and the wing tip. [1] [11] The warhead damaged trailing-edge surfaces of the wing structure and caused a fire. All ...
On June 27, 1993, 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched by two U.S. Navy warships into downtown Baghdad. These hit a building which was believed to be the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service in the Mansour district of Baghdad. Iraq claimed that nine civilians were killed in the attack and three civilian houses destroyed.
In autumn 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly threatened to close the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if Iraqi leaders did not prevent further attacks on the embassy. [47] According to some media sources, Pompeo informed Baghdad that it would target 120 sites in Iraq linked to Iran-backed militias if rocket attacks cost American lives.
At 9:30 p.m. local time, the United States conducted a drone strike on a vehicle in Baghdad, resulting in the death of three Kata'ib Hezbollah militants, among them senior commander Abu Baqir al-Saadi. [18] [9] The attack was denounced by the Iraqi government, saying that the US-led military coalition in Iraq is becoming a "factor for instability".
A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties on Friday morning, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack was the first on the embassy located in ...
On 20 October, the US ordered all non-emergency staff to leave their embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Erbil. [45] On 20 November, eight US and coalition soldiers were injured from a ballistic missile attack, and there was minor infrastructural damage after the air base was attacked by a ballistic missile. [46]
A second missile impacted near another F-16, damaging it, as the flight evaded SAMs during their egress from Baghdad. Both aircraft were lost, but their pilots survived the war as POWs. One of the two lost aircraft took a hit from an SA-3 missile just south of Baghdad but managed to fly for 150 miles on the return route before the engine quit. [1]
A U.S. Marine M1 Abrams tank of the U.S. 1st Marine Division patrols a Baghdad street after its capture in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. forces reach the outskirts of Baghdad and encounter fierce fighting from small units of Iraqi Republican Guard. Kurdish militiamen, aided by U.S. forces, move into Kanilan near Mosul in northern ...