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Mar 20, 2023 · 20 Mar 2023. Twenty years ago on this day, a US-led ground invasion of Iraq began. Death and destruction quickly became a common sight in the country. The war caused the deaths of more than...
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On Sunday 24, February 1991, allied forces launched a combined ground, air and sea assault which overwhelmed the Iraqi army within 100 hours. By 26 February, Iraq had announced it was withdrawing its forces from Kuwait, but still refused to accept all the UN resolutions passed against it. Iraqi tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and troops fleeing the...
The devastating attack resulted in the destruction and abandonment of more than a thousand vehicles on Highway 80 north of Al Jahra (the official Highway of Death), and several hundred more on the lesser known Highway 8 to Basra. Between 1,400 and 2,000 vehicles were hit or abandoned on the main Highway 80 north of Al Jahra. Several hundred more li...
This bombing was done with cluster bombs and incendiary rounds from A-10s. A cluster bomb is a weapon containing multiple explosive submunitions. This spreads the destruction over a much wider area and doesnt leave a single huge crater behind. Anybody within the strike area of the cluster munitions, be they military or civilian, is very likely to b...
In hindsight its clear that these troops were totally routed and didnt pose any threat to the coalition forces at this point in the game. Also it should be emphasized that they were retreating. However, retreating does not equal surrendered. If they didnt surrender then they were enemy combatants. Moreover retreating or falling back is considered a...
There are two factors going on here that arent really well understood when people discuss the Highway of Death. First of all, Iraqi army was the fourth largest army in the world and had a lot of equipment that was perceived as pretty good by 1991 standards. Reasonable people were talking about the US taking 10,000 casualties during a fight that wou...
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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Iraqis Search For Relatives Among Mass Grave Remains. Iraqi Killed Reportedly By U.S. Forces In Baghdad. Mass Grave Of Victims Unearthed From Iraqi Soil. Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic Iraqi War Dead stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures.
Mar 18, 2023 · A U.S. soldier watched as a 20-foot statue of Mr. Hussein, who had ruled Iraq for 24 years, fell in central Baghdad on April 9.
Mar 20, 2023 · An estimated 1,300 Iraqis had been killed in the monthlong siege of Fallujah, and the death toll continued to rise as residents returned home to find more bodies. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images...
Oct 21, 2023 · The Death of an Iraqi soldier, Highway of Death, 1991 - Rare Historical Photos. In the 1991 Gulf War, American pilots bombed a retreating Iraqi convoy. Most US media declined to publish this photo. This photo at first was regarded by many editors as too disturbing to print, but later became one of the most famous images of the first Gulf War.