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The War of the Cities was five series of air raids, missile attacks and artillery shellings on major cities and urban areas initiated by Saddam Hussein 's Iraqi Air Force, with the aim of disrupting the morale of Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. The first phase of air strikes were undertaken by the Iraqi Air Force, which normally was followed ...
Casualties of the Israel–Hamas war. As of 8 April 2024, over 34,000 people (33,091 Palestinian [1] and 1,410 Israeli [9]) have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 95 journalists (90 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) [10] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, including 179 employees of UNRWA.
The most popular cable network in the United States for news on the war was Fox News, and had begun influencing other media outlets' coverage. [1] At the time, Fox News was owned by Rupert Murdoch, a strong supporter of the war. [2] On-screen during all live war coverage by Fox News was a waving flag animation in the upper left corner and the ...
Tower 22 in Jordan. On 28 January 2024, an attack drone, launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq —an Iranian-backed Shia militia group—struck Tower 22, a U.S. military outpost in Rukban, northeast Jordan. The explosion resulted in the deaths of three U.S. soldiers and injuries to 47 others.
In a declassified 1991 report, the CIA estimated that Iran had suffered more than 50,000 casualties from Iraq's use of several chemical weapons, though modern estimates have reached more than 100,000, as the long-term effects continued to cause casualties; they also show that the United States was providing reconnaissance intelligence to Iraq ...
On November 8, 2004, a force of around 2,000 U.S. and 600 Iraqi troops began a concentrated assault on Fallujah with air strikes, artillery, armor, and infantry. The New York Times reported that within an hour of the start of the ground attack, troops seized the Fallujah General Hospital.
Humanitarian crises. On December 14, 2008, a New York Times article by James Glanz and T. Christian Miller discussed the pending release of a report that criticizes the Bush administration for failing to effectively plan for post-combat operations in Iraq. The 513-page report was authored by US Republican Party lawyer Stuart Bowen, who is the ...
