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Operation Swarmer, March 2006. March 12 – Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl was raped and murdered together with most of her family in the Mahmudiyah killings. March 23 – members of the Special Air Service recovered British and Canadian hostages ending the Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis.
Jul 5, 2006 · July 5, 2006. RAMADI, Iraq, July 4 — The Government Center in the middle of this devastated town resembles a fortress on the wild edge of some frontier: it is sandbagged, barricaded, full of men ...
Battle of Tal Afar (2005) U.S. Army soldiers and Iraqi soldiers patrolling through downtown Tal Afar, Iraq, September 11, 2005. The Battle of Tal Afar also known as Operation Restoring Rights [5] was a military offensive conducted by the United States Army and supported by Iraqi forces, to eliminate Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgents in the ...
Jun 17, 2006 · The Battle of Ramadi in 2006 (sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Ramadi) was fought during the Iraq War from June 2006 to November 2006 for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. A combined force of U.S. Soldiers, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy SEALs, and Iraqi Security Forces fought insurgents for control of key locations in Ramadi, including the Government ...
The 2004 Iraq spring fighting was a series of operational offensives and various major engagements during the Iraq War. It was a turning point in the war; the Spring Fighting marked the entrance into the conflict of militias and religiously based ( Shi'a and Sunni) militant Iraqi groups, such as the Shi'a Mahdi Army .
The Battle of Umm Qasr was the first military confrontation in the Iraq War. At the start of the war, one of the first objectives was the port of Umm Qasr. On 21 March 2003, as allied forces advanced across Southern Iraq, an amphibious landing force captured the new port area of Umm Qasr. The assault was spearheaded by Royal Marines of the ...
A Batalha de Ramadi de 2006 (por vezes referida como Segunda Batalha de Ramadi) foi travada durante a Guerra do Iraque entre abril de 2006 a novembro de 2006 pelo controle da capital da província de Al Anbar, no oeste do Iraque. Uma força combinada do exército, dos fuzileiros navais, dos Navy SEALs e das forças de segurança iraquianas ...
