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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.
28 July – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in a sandstorm. All five crew-members are killed. [10]17 April – A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, 95–26648, belonging to the 3-158th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade crashes on infill about 12 miles (19 km) north of Tikrit while executing an 8 ship air assault at night. 1 U.S. service member killed and 3 crew ...
The 2003 attack on Karbala was an unsuccessful strike on the Iraqi Republican Guard's Medina Division by the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.The Medina Division was mostly deployed along the Karbala gap, west of the city of Karbala itself.
20 January 2007 was the third-deadliest day of the Iraq War for U.S. troops, with 20 U.S. soldiers killed throughout Iraq, including 12 in a helicopter crash caused by hostile ground fire [20] northeast of Baghdad in Diyala Governorate. Also that same day, 2 U.S. soldiers and 1 Marine were killed in separate incidents in Iraq. [21] [22] [23]
Saeed Chmagh (Arabic: سعيد شماغ) (January 1, 1967 – July 12, 2007) [1] was an Iraqi employed by Reuters news agency as a driver and camera assistant. [1] [2] He was killed, [3] along with his colleague Namir Noor-Eldeen, [4] by American military forces in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad, Iraq, during an airstrike on July 12, 2007.
The death toll in Iraq this year ranges from some 7,900 to 8,700 people so far, making 2013 the most deadly year for the country since 2008, according to IraqBodyCount.org, a U.K.-based website founded in 2003 and run by volunteers to record civilian deaths.
Morally devastating experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have been common. A study conducted early in the Iraq war, for instance, found that two-thirds of deployed Marines had killed an enemy combatant, more than half had handled human remains, and 28 percent felt responsible for the death of an Iraqi civilian.
On 21 December 2009, a pair of U.S. Apaches attacked a British-held base in a friendly fire incident, killing one British soldier. [115] In 2003, the AH-64 participated in the invasion of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. [116]