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Motive. Unknown. On 7 December 2021, a bomb blast near a hospital in the southern Iraq city of Basra has killed at least seven people and injured 20 others. The blast set a vehicle on fire and damaged a bus. According to the preliminary investigation, the motorcycle was loaded with explosives which could have caused the explosion. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The tactics of the Iraqi insurgency have varied widely. Insurgents have targeted U.S. forces and Iraqi government forces using improvised explosive devices, ambushes, snipers, and mortar and rocket fire, in addition to using car bombs, kidnappings or hostage-taking, and assassinations. For most attacks, the Iraqi guerrillas operate in small ...
242–1,400 Iraqi soldiers killed or wounded. all targets were destroyed or suffered varying levels of damage. The 1998 bombing of Iraq (code-named Operation Desert Fox) was a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets from 16 to 19 December 1998, by the United States and the United Kingdom. On 16 December 1998, Bill Clinton announced ...
The number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. Iraq’s total population is more than 40 million. ... 50 of the best engagement photos from around ...
Trillion-dollar war. Hundreds of thousands dead. Zero weapons of mass destruction. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports on the numbers behind the war
The abuses at Abu Ghraib were brought to the world’s attention in 2004, when CBS News published shocking photos of prisoners subjected to abuse by U.S. soldiers that was similar to what the ...
During the Iran–Iraq War, Iraqi oil drilling operations in Rumaila declined while Kuwait's operations increased. In 1989, Iraq accused Kuwait of using "advanced drilling techniques" to exploit oil from its share of the Rumaila field. Iraq estimated that US$2.4 billion worth of Iraqi oil was "stolen" by Kuwait and demanded compensation.
Iraq’s total population is more than 40 million. Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a small fire led to guests and diplomatic personnel being evacuated from Baghdad’s Al-Rasheed hotel.