Tag: Kurdistan

June 1, 2004: Kurdish political party targeted in Iraq bombing

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2021-06-01
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Remnant of the PUK office in Sinjar after a battle with the Islamic State, 2019 (Photo: Levi Clancy, Wikimedia Commons, CC0)

On June 1, 2004 a car bomb tore through the Baghdad offices of the Kurdish political party PUK, killing 26 and wounding several others.

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May 7, 2016: ISIS attacks Kurdish village with Chlorine gas

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2021-05-07
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Signing of Chemical Weapons Treaty. (1993) in Paris, France. (Photo: UN Photo / Michel Claude CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

On May 7, 2016 ISIS terrorists launched several mortar rounds containing chlorine gas at the village of Bashir killing three and wounding hundreds

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May 4, 2005: Suicide bomber targets police recruits in Kurdistan

Post author By Phil Gurski
Post date 2021-05-04
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Kurdistan Flag, 2009 (Photo: Kurdistan HDR Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0)

On May 4, 2005 a suicide bomber pretending to be a job seeker blew himself up outside a police recruiting center in Erbil killing at least 60 Kurds

Tags Islamist terrorism, Kurdistan, suicide bombing, terrorism, Today in terrorism