• 2005 Khanaqin bombings were suicide attacks on two Shia mosques in Khanaqin, Iraq (near the Iranian border), on November 18, 2005. "Iraq suicide attacks...
    2 KB (47 words) - 11:14, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khanaqin
    Khanaqin (Arabic: خانقين; Kurdish: خانەقین, romanized: Xaneqîn) is the central city of Khanaqin District in Diyala Governorate, Iraq, near the Iranian...
    21 KB (1,820 words) - 02:51, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Execution of Saddam Hussein
    Najaf bombings Baqubah 2004 Kufa mosque bombing 2005 Al Hillah 2005 Erbil 2005 Musayyib bombing Baghdad bombings August September Balad 2005 Khanaqin bombings...
    37 KB (3,680 words) - 06:20, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Hooded Man
    published on the cover of The Nation on 26 December 2005 with the title "The Torture Complex". On 12 June 2005, the New York Times magazine published another...
    12 KB (1,332 words) - 19:18, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
    (September 2005). ""Setting the Conditions" for Abu Ghraib: The Prison Nation Abroad". American Quarterly. 57 (3): 973–997. doi:10.1353/aq.2005.0039. JSTOR 40068323...
    148 KB (15,575 words) - 02:34, 19 November 2024
  • were killed in at least 1,003 suicide bombings in Iraq between 2003 and 2010. The study reveals that suicide bombings killed 60 times as many civilians as...
    34 KB (2,047 words) - 10:08, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human rights in Ba'athist Iraq
    considered them as Iranians. The systematic executions started in Baghdad and Khanaqin in 1979 and later spread to other Iraqi and Kurdish areas. It is estimated...
    27 KB (3,263 words) - 12:32, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for There are unknown unknowns
    Najaf bombings Baqubah 2004 Kufa mosque bombing 2005 Al Hillah 2005 Erbil 2005 Musayyib bombing Baghdad bombings August September Balad 2005 Khanaqin bombings...
    17 KB (1,867 words) - 15:44, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations Security Council
    after the presentation and urged the media to broaden their coverage. In a 2005 interview, Powell stated that he did not lie because he did not know the...
    14 KB (1,207 words) - 20:54, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of Fallujah
    in the press. Most notable of these attacks was a suicide car bomb attack on 23 June 2005 on a convoy that killed 6 Marines. Thirteen other Marines were...
    85 KB (8,658 words) - 09:18, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iraq War
    UK, Australia, and Poland, initiated a "shock and awe" bombing campaign. Following the bombings, coalition forces launched a ground invasion, defeating...
    289 KB (28,504 words) - 08:04, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polish involvement in the Iraq War
    because of the quick victory it was stopped one day before departure. In April 2005, Poland had 2,500 troops deployed in Iraq, and was also commanding a number...
    7 KB (514 words) - 02:58, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of the Iraq War
    bunker in Baghdad, having been starved, beaten and tortured. Nov. 18: Bombings in Khanaqin kill at least 74. Nov. 19: Haditha killings: American soldiers kill...
    27 KB (3,073 words) - 04:19, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)
    against foreign military personnel began transforming into frequent suicide bombings and death squads targeting civilians that were perceived as "loyal" to...
    143 KB (16,929 words) - 09:12, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mission Accomplished speech
    2003. Archived from the original on June 18, 2006. Retrieved October 25, 2005. "White House pressed on 'mission accomplished' sign". CNN. October 27, 2003...
    21 KB (2,153 words) - 14:15, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human rights in post-invasion Iraq
    the Interior Ministry said that the final death toll of the 13 August bombings in the Al-Zafaraniyah district in southern Baghdad is 57 killed and 145...
    105 KB (11,824 words) - 23:23, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
    country. Notable events this year include: 2018 Baghdad bombings: On 15 January 2018, two suicide bombings took place at al-Tayaran Square of Baghdad, killing...
    32 KB (1,997 words) - 18:40, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iraq Survey Group
    ISG's exploitation operations mostly ceased in early November 2004. By early 2005, the MCTs were disbanded and all but two former MCT members, Army Sergeants...
    25 KB (3,264 words) - 09:46, 13 September 2024
  • Operation Southern Focus (category Aerial bombing operations and battles)
    States Defense Department and CENTCOM stated that increasing numbers of bombings of Iraqi installations in the region were merely in response to more attacks...
    6 KB (607 words) - 19:48, 29 August 2024
  • On September 29, 2005, three near-simultaneous car bombs exploded in Balad, Iraq. The bombs went off in a busy vegetable market, by a bank and by a police...
    2 KB (79 words) - 02:42, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Casualties of the Iraq War
    Dead Iraqis: Deadliest single insurgent bombings: August 14, 2007. Truck bombs – 2007 Yazidi communities bombings (in northwestern Iraq): 796 killed. Other...
    187 KB (17,114 words) - 18:35, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fallujah during the Iraq War
    Panthers, Bobcats, jobs, cars, homes". Archived from the original on 2005-11-19. Retrieved 2005-11-14. Gettleman, Jeffrey (2004-04-14). "THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ –...
    45 KB (5,483 words) - 22:23, 26 September 2024
  • cause. 75m 80yds 3 2 1    Just before noon on September 16, 2007, a car bomb exploded near the Izdihar Compound where US and Iraqi officials were meeting...
    76 KB (7,102 words) - 07:45, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
    biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. After the Gulf War, the United Nations located and destroyed large...
    123 KB (13,677 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2003 invasion of Iraq
    Colonel Matthew Bogdanos in his 2005 book Thieves of Baghdad. Bogdanos notes that the Ministry of Oil building was bombed, but the museum complex, which...
    294 KB (33,143 words) - 19:01, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
    Service, stated in June 2005: "I still think 80 percent of the Insurgents, the day-to-day activity, is Iraqi – the roadside bombings, mortars, direct weapons...
    110 KB (10,916 words) - 01:52, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rationale for the Iraq War
    Government Plagiarizes MERIA Journal". 23 October 2005. Archived from the original on 23 October 2005. Retrieved 27 March 2019. Dobbins, James (11 June...
    179 KB (19,800 words) - 14:48, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War
    that she had read transcripts of Kofi Annan's conversations. In 2004 and 2005 Colin Powell acknowledged that much of his 2003 UN presentation was inaccurate:...
    22 KB (2,838 words) - 05:03, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Criticism of the Iraq War
    right to self-defense, even without a UN mandate, as were the cases in the bombing of Iraq in June 1993 in retaliation for Hussein's attempt on former President...
    25 KB (2,636 words) - 17:18, 3 August 2024
  • target of attacks with "aerial improvised explosive devices" or home-made bombs. In early 2007, the U.S. Army announced that the Iraqi insurgent groups...
    129 KB (12,251 words) - 03:47, 9 October 2024