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Jan 25, 2023 · Pictures of abandoned vehicles along the Highway of Death soon became some of the most defining images of the Gulf War. Burned out and abandoned, some of them still containing bodies, they eerily captured the utter destruction that had been rained down on Iraqis by coalition forces.
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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.
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Mar 20, 2023 · On March 20, 2003, the U.S. carried out its first airstrikes in Iraq. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. We take a look at scenes from the Iraq War in pictures.
Mar 18, 2023 · A girl cried after losing her mother in car bomb at a hotel in Baghdad on Jan. 25. Bomb attacks that day struck four hotels around the Iraqi capital, killing at least 37 people.
Dec 6, 2023 · The images were shocking, showing a seemingly endless line of burned-out vehicles and bodies, some within the automobiles and others scattered along the roadside. These visuals prompted a global conversation about the nature of the attack and raised questions about the proportionality and necessity of such heavy bombardment.
Iraq has hanged three people convicted of involvement in a vehicle bombing in Baghdad that killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds in 2016.
