• Al-Karmah, also sometimes transliterated as Karma, Karmah, or Garma (Iraqi Arabic: الگرمة), is a city in central Iraq, 16 km (10 mi) northeast of Fallujah...
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    The Al-Karmah offensive, codenamed Fajr al-Karma, was an offensive launched by the Iraqi Army and anti-ISIL Sunni tribal fighters to recapture the Al-Karmah...
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    government against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in al-Karmah and in the city of Fallujah, with the aim of enforcing a siege of the...
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  • Al-Karma Sport Club (Arabic: نادي الكرمة الرياضي), also pronounced Al-Garma, is an Iraqi football team based in Al-Karmah, Al-Anbar, that plays in the...
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    area also contains the cities of Samarra, Fallujah, Balad, Hīt, Al-Taji and Al-Karmah. The area was a center of strong support for Ba'athist Iraq; from...
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    Battle of Fallujah, initially codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, Operation al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر, lit. 'The Dawn') was an American-led offensive of the...
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    Al Anbar Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الأنبار; muḥāfaẓat al-’Anbār), or Anbar Province, is the largest governorate in Iraq by area. Encompassing much of...
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  • The 26 June 2008 Karmah bombing was a suicide attack on a meeting of tribal sheiks in the town of Al-Karmah. Three Marines from 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines...
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  • Garma may refer to: Al-Karmah, a city in Iraq, also spelt Garma Garma, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran Garma, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan...
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    raised high over the land of Fallujah," said al-Abadi. On 23 May 2016, it was reported the city of Al-Karmah was recaptured by Shiite militias belonging...
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    same way. An attempted attack against Ukrainian peacekeepers in the city of Al-Suwaira occurred in early September 2003, with a remote-controlled improvised...
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    be Ali Shallal al-Qaisi but the online magazine Salon.com later raised doubts about his identity. It was later reported that although al-Qaisi was photographed...
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    On 14 December 2008, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi removed his shoes and threw them at United States president George W. Bush during a joint press...
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  • satellite TV station at Al Jazeera's office in Baghdad and killed Tareq Ayyoub, a Palestinian reporter, and wounded Zouhair al-Iraqi, an Iraqi cameraman...
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  • Photographs that he took in Iraq of dead US Marines after a suicide bomber in Al-Karmah that he posted on his website were discussed on the online forum 'Lightstalkers'...
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    23 April 2003, and approximately 150 members of Charlie Company occupied al-Qa'id primary. On 28 April, a crowd of approximately 200 people gathered outside...
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    1 December 2003, a former driver divulged the name Muhammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit, Saddam's comrade, known to TF 121 as "the source" or "the fatman"...
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    are termed "known unknowns". The term was originally coined by Little et al. and reported a number of times in the literature since then as a general...
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    north: Al-Hasakah Governorate Ash Shaddadi Hasaka Dam Kharab al-Jeer near Al-Malikiyah Rmelan (airbase) Tal Tamir Tell Beydar Aleppo Governorate Ayn al-Arab...
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    et al. and found that the 500,000 casualty estimate by Hagopian et al. was not supported by data. Spagat and Van Weezel said that Hagopian et al. made...
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    One such futile attempt by sledgehammer-wielding weightlifter Kadhem Sharif Al-Jabbouri particularly caught media attention. Shortly after, an advance unit...
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  • Al-Tuḥfah al-Barāmūsiyyah fī Sharḥ wa-Tatimmat Qawā'id Hisāb Al-Abqaṭi lil-Kanīsah al-Qibṭiyyah al-Urthudhuksiyyah, Cairo, 1925; Kītāb al-Karmah, Cairo,...
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    attention to eastern Anbar Governorate and secured the cities of Fallujah and Al-Karmah. The fighting was mostly over by September 2007, although US forces maintained...
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    congressional cafeterias was reverted. After the September 11 attacks by Al-Qaeda and the declaration of a "War on Terror" by President George W. Bush...
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    bombings 2008 Bagdad bombings February March June Balad 2008 Karbala 2008 Al-Karmah Dujail bombing Balad Ruz bombing Attacks on Christians in Mosul 2009 Bagdad...
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    The Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were based on false claims by the United States government alleging that a secretive relationship existed...
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    previous incarnations of ISIL (Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad [Jama'at], the Mujahideen Shura Council [MSC], and al-Qaeda in Iraq) interfered with occupation...
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    its attention to eastern Anbar and secured the cities of Fallujah and Al-Karmah. Celebrating victory, President George W. Bush flew to Anbar in August...
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    9/11 attacks. British media was more cautious in its coverage. The Qatari Al-Jazeera network was heavily critical of the war. The most popular cable network...
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    June 2004, the Council dissolved after choosing member Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer as the president of the new Iraq interim government. Full sovereignty...
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