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The Peshmerga sent another 2000 fighters into Mosul in response to a request by the Iraqi Defense Ministry in an effort to stop the insurgent advance. The United States Air Force began a bombing campaign on rebel positions in the city which continued into the next day. One of the targets hit was a cemetery.
The Islamist insurgent group Army of Ansar al-Sunna (partly evolved from Ansar al-Islam) released an internet message taking credit for the attack. [2] The bomber entered the mess tent and approached a large group of U.S. soldiers, detonating himself and killing 22 people. It was the single deadliest suicide attack against the US military in Iraq.
At the height of the occupation the US had 170,000 personnel in uniform stationed in 505 bases throughout all provinces of Iraq. Another 135,000 private military contractors were also working in Iraq. [1] [2] Due to International military intervention against ISIL, personnel have returned to old bases and new bases created.
27 March – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter is shot down during heavy fighting in northern Basra. [40] 4 March – An Iraqi military Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in a sandstorm south of Baiji (about 90 miles (140 km) south of Mosul in northern Iraq), killing an American airman and seven other people. [41] [42] [43]
Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of the brothers ...
Michael Yon (born 1964) [1] is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq. [2]
Beginning on 16 October 2016, American-led forces began taking back control of the city of Mosul after it fell under occupation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014. [17] On 24 January 2017, the Eastern half of the city had been liberated from ISIL control, and the coalition forces began advancing into western Mosul soon ...
Iraqi army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Iraqi Army Division patrol a street in Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Robertson) (Released) Author: STAFF SGT. JASON ROBERTSON: Headline: Iraqi Freedom: Short title: 080218-F-5677R-101; City shown: MOSUL: Date and time of data generation ...