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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.
Tiba al-Ali was born in Iraq in 2000 and moved to Turkey in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She and her fiancé frequently made videos on YouTube about life in Istanbul . [ 3 ] She visited her family in the central Iraqi city of Al Diwaniyah , Al-QÄdisiyyah Governorate , in 2023, where on 31 January she was strangled at night while sleeping. [ 3 ]
Hadji Girl" is a song by Corporal Joshua Belile of the United States Marine Corps about a fictitious encounter with a family of Iraqis. A video of Belile performing the song was posted anonymously on YouTube.com in March 2006. It sparked controversy at a time when Marines were facing public scrutiny over the killings in Haditha. YouTube ...
A protest in Arbil against Aswad's killing attracted hundreds of Kurds who called for an end to honor killings. [9] [10] It is believed Aswad's murder sparked, or was used as a pretext for, a reprisal attack in Mosul on 22 April [11] in which 23 Yazidis were killed [3] and for which the Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility. [12]
It began when ISIS captured Iraqi Turkmen lands in 2014 and it continued until ISIS lost all of their land in Iraq. In 2017, ISIS's persecution of Iraqi Turkmen was officially recognized as a genocide by the Parliament of Iraq, [7] [8] and in 2018, the sexual slavery of Iraqi Turkmen girls and women was recognized by the United Nations. [9] [10]
In September 2005, the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) deployed to Haditha, an agricultural town along the Euphrates river in western Iraq. [12] Prior to the deployment, a Guardian investigation reported that two Iraqi insurgent groups—Ansar al-Sunna and Al-Qaeda—had taken over operations of the town after driving out local police and civil servants. [13]
The film is inspired by the Haditha killings incident that occurred three months after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War.On 19 November 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children were killed by a group of United States Marines following an incident where an I.E.D killed one Marine and seriously wounded two others.
LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.