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Date City Attack Deaths (Alleged) Perpetrator Notes Source 22 July 1979 Khuld hall 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge: 21 Ba'athist regime organized by Saddam Hussein: Internal purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party after the new president Saddam Hussein assumed power and alleged a Syrian back coup d'etat. 68 people were arrested, of which 21 were executed by firing squad.
September 25 - Seven captured Army recruits were executed in Baghdad. A U.S. soldier is facing 25 years of jail for the killing of a soldier in May. [730] September 28 - Various insurgent attacks in the country killed eight soldiers. [731] October October 9–11 soldiers were killed in an attack on the ING compound in Karabilah. [730]
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.
Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday [, April 18, 2007, ] was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings , mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on November 23, 2006, according to the AP count."
By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war [7] and over 1,000 civilians. [8] [9] [10] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base, [7] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more ...
In Iraq in June 2006, two soldiers of the United States Army were abducted and later killed and mutilated by members of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, during a time when military forces of the U.S. and a dozen other countries were conducting military operations in Iraq to "bring order to parts of that country that remain[ed] dangerous". [1]
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
Since the beginning of the Iraq War (and, by extension, the Iraqi conflict) in 2003, Iraqi insurgents have targeted public figures and important individuals whom they believe to be working for the Coalition or its allied Iraqi forces.