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  2. Qahtaniyah bombings - Wikipedia

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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

  3. List of terrorist incidents in 2007 - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. List of bombings during the Iraq War - Wikipedia

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    1 August 2007 Baghdad bombings: 74 Unknown [50] 14 August 2007 Til Ezer and Siba Sheikh Khidir: Qahtaniyah bombings: 796 Unknown [51] 13 December 2007 Amarah: 2007 Al Amarah bombings: 46 Unknown [52] 1 February 2008 Baghdad 1 February 2008 Baghdad bombings: 98 Unknown [53] 10 February 2008 Balad: 2008 Balad bombing: 25 Unknown [54] 6 March 2008 ...

  5. April 2007 Yazidi massacre - Wikipedia

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    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 7 ...

  6. Yazidi genocide - Wikipedia

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    IS does not consider Yazidis as People of the book or eligible for Dhimmi and related protections; [23] whereas moderate Islam offers these protections to a wide variety of minority religions. [24] The Yazidi community historically recorded their persecution, in which they considered the Qahtaniyah bombings as the 73rd genocide. The persecution ...

  7. Al-Qahtaniyah, al-Hasakah - Wikipedia

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    On 13 March 2004, after the 2004 Qamishli riots when 40 Kurdish civilians were killed, residents of Al-Qahtaniyah who protested the killings were shot at and injured by Syrian forces. [4] As of 2004, Al-Qahtaniyah is the sixth largest town in Al-Hasakah governorate. In late July 2012, during the Syrian civil war, the YPG took control of the ...

  8. Operation Black Eagle - Wikipedia

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    Operation Black Eagle is an operation that took place during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 to 2010. It was the 381st listed operation during the Iraq war in 2003 [1] [circular reference] Black Eagle was an operation in which U.S. Polish, and Iraqi troops battled gunmen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the town of Al Diwaniyah, which is the capital of Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah ...

  9. Battle of Baqubah - Wikipedia

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    [24] [25] Another similar attack initiated by a large deep buried mine killed six American soldiers in a Stryker vehicle on 6 May 2007, along with embedded Russian photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev. [26] [27] [28] The house-to-house fighting seen in eastern Baqubah during this offensive was the fiercest fighting in Iraq at the time. Al-Qaeda in ...