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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]
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.
Ba'athist Iraq Persecution of Shi'a muslims and political dissidents under Saddam Hussein: 50,000-70,000 Shi'a and 50,000 dissidents disappeared. Full death toll unknown. Saddam Hussein 50,000 to 70,000 Shi'a, and 50,000 opposition activists, communists, Kurds and other minorities disappeared into Iraqi prisons in the 1980s [23] 1970-2003 ...
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
A military jury acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of premeditated murder in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017.
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."
In September 2005, the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) deployed to Haditha, an agricultural town along the Euphrates river in western Iraq. [12] Prior to the deployment, a Guardian investigation reported that two Iraqi insurgent groups—Ansar al-Sunna and Al-Qaeda—had taken over operations of the town after driving out local police and civil servants. [13]
The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. Television footage showed flames rushing over the wedding hall as the fire took hold. Civil defense ...