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List of Saddam-era Mass graves in Iraq Remains Found Location Year found Timeframe which grave was dug Notes 113: Samawah: 2005: 1980-1988: Victims were kurds most of whom were women, children and teenagers [5] 492: Al Diwaniyah: 2011: 1988: Victims were kurds, likely part of the Anfal campaign [6] 3,115: Al-Mahawil: 2003: 1991
Sabrina Harman, posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi in November 2003 Charles Graner, posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi in November 2003 . US Navy SEALs had apprehended al-Jamadi following the 27 October 2003 bombing of Red Cross offices in Baghdad that killed 34 people, including one US soldier, and left more than 200 wounded.
On October 29, 2007, the memoir of a soldier stationed in Abu Ghraib, Iraq from 2005 to 2006 was published. It was called Torture Central and chronicled many events previously unreported in the news media, including torture that continued at Abu Ghraib over a year after the abuse photos were published.
Joshua Lloyd Wheeler (November 22, 1975 – October 22, 2015) was a United States Army soldier who was killed in Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve. [3] [4] He was a master sergeant assigned to the elite Delta Force, and was the first American service member killed in action as a result of enemy fire while fighting ISIS militants.
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, 2006.
For many other U.S. troops, exposure to killing and other traumas is common. In 2004, even before multiple combat deployments became routine, a study of 3,671 combat Marines returning from Iraq found that 65 percent had killed an enemy combatant, and 28 percent said they were responsible for the death of a civilian. Eighty-three percent had ...
On 12 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) summarily executed between 1,095 and 1,700 [2] Iraqi cadets near Tikrit.The killings took place during ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive, when the cadets were captured outside of Camp Speicher during their attempt to flee from the area.
A U.S. Army soldier didn’t report for work one day and was later found dead in her third-floor barracks room at a base in Germany in 2001. For over two decades, no arrests were made in ...