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The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
A U.S. Navy Seabee mans a vehicle-mounted machine gun while travelling through Al Hillah, Iraq in May 2003. The Triangle of Death is a name given to a region south of Baghdad during the 2003–2011 occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces [1] which saw major combat activity and sectarian violence from early 2003 into the fall of 2007.
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-Qādisiyyah Governorate , in 2023, where on 31 January she was strangled at night while sleeping. [ 3 ]
An unemployed Pennsylvania resident and self-proclaimed militia leader uploaded a 14-minute YouTube video that displayed the severed head of his father, whom he said "is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to this country". Police subsequently confirmed that the father had died and his head had been removed, and charged him with first-degree ...
The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. Television footage showed flames rushing over the wedding hall as the fire took hold. Civil defense ...
Abu Tahsin al-Salihi (Arabic: أبو تحسين الصالحي; 1 July 1953 – 29 September 2017) was an Iraqi veteran sniper.A volunteer in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, he is credited with killing over 384 ISIS members during the War in Iraq (2013–2017), receiving the nicknames "The Sheikh of Snipers" and "Hawk Eye."
January 24, 2021 - Iraq's president, Barham Salih, ratified 340 death sentences of arrested ISIS militants and affiliates. [ 7 ] January 27, 2021 - 11 ISIS fighters including three leaders, one of them Abu Yasser al-Issawi , were killed in a counter-terrorism operation in Al-Chai Valley, southern Kirkuk.
The death toll may have been higher for those MEK executed by frontline courts-martial or dying in prison. Ali Sayad Shirazi was the Iranian commander responsible for the coordination between the Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian army, that was responsible for the success of Operation Mersad.