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July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike. On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release ...
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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. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village ...
The most popular cable network in the United States for news on the war was Fox News, and had begun influencing other media outlets' coverage. [1] At the time, Fox News was owned by Rupert Murdoch, a strong supporter of the war. [2] On-screen during all live war coverage by Fox News was a waving flag animation in the upper left corner and the ...
On 16 June 2006, a U.S. military checkpoint near Baghdad was attacked. One of the three U.S. soldiers manning the checkpoint was killed, and the two others, Menchaca and Tucker, were abducted. Those two were recovered three days later, according to an Iraqi spokesman "killed in a very brutal way and tortured".
An international coalition of 60 nations, led by the United States, supported Iraq's war against ISIL, providing logistical and air support, intelligence, and advice. [116] The international coalition forces were headquartered 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Mosul at Qayyarah Airfield West (or Q-West) in Qayyarah , which was retaken from ISIL in ...
On 15 December, an American military ceremony was held in Baghdad putting a formal end to the US mission in Iraq. [347] The last US combat troops withdrew from Iraq on 18 December 2011, although the US embassy and consulates continue to maintain a staff of more than 20,000 including 100+ military personnel within the Office of Security ...
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis ), a private military company contracted by the United States government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy ...