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House Passes Measure to Name Post Office in Memory of Medal of Honor Recipient, Thompson Says (Glenn W Thompson)
Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. Glenn W Thompson). Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 433, to designate the Post Office in Knox, Clarion County as the Specialist Ross A. McGinnis Memorial Post Office. McGinnis was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 4,. 2006, while serving with the Army in Iraq ... Bush ... McGinnis,' Thompson said ... Tom and Mrs ... On Dec. 4, 2006, McGinnis' platoon was on mounted patrol in Adhamiyah ... Glenn W ... (noodl....
Iraq war 13 years on: 'I was lucky to stay alive'
Edit Al Jazeera 26 Apr 2016
As Iraq marks 13 years since the US invasion and occupation, the costs of the war continue to accrue, generation after generation. While Iraqis continue to live with the legacies of the war, this is not the Iraq that so many of its people once knew. Here, Iraqis reflect on the indelible marks this conflict has left on their lives ... I can't imagine myself going back there again or even to al-Adhamiyah, where I grew up." ... Source. Al Jazeera....
Multiple bombings claim 7 lives in, around Iraqi capital
Edit Press TV 25 Sep 2015
Iraqi security and medical officials say at least seven people have lost their lives and more than a dozen sustained injures in a spate of bomb attacks in and around the country’s violence-plagued capital ... An official at the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research also lost his life in the northern al-Adhamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad on Thursday, when a bomb blast targeted his vehicle ... ©AFP ... ....
Iraqi professors, students receive military training to fight ISIL
Edit Press TV 04 Aug 2015
The following photos show scenes from the military training of some 250 students and professors at the the Iraqi University's Faculty of Medicine in the northern Baghdad district of al-Adhamiyah ... ....
Several dead in Baghdad Shia pilgrimage violence
Edit Al Jazeera 14 May 2015
Mobs burned several buildings in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah which the pilgrims have to cross to reach the holy Shia site on the other side of the Tigris river ... an attempt to contain the panic but the violence only swelled because the crowd thought they were being shot at by Adhamiyah residents....
Four killed in Baghdad Shiite pilgrimage violence
Edit Middle East Online 14 May 2015
Mobs burn several buildings in Sunni district of Adhamiyah which pilgrims have to cross to reach holy Shiite site on other side of Tigris river. ....
36 killed, 94 injured in Baghdad double suicide bombings
Edit Xinhua 07 Feb 2015
BAGHDAD, Feb ... The number of the wounded in the pair of attacks rose to 94, said the same source ... The attacks came on the day when the Iraqi government will lift the years-long night-time curfew imposed on Baghdad, and disarm some of Baghdad's districts of Kadhmiyah, Adhamiyah, Mansour, Karrada and Saidiyah ... Editor ... ....
After a tough year, Iraqis seek some holiday cheer
Edit TheNational 20 Dec 2014
BAGHDAD // Yaasub Ali stands inside his shop in Baghdad’s Shorjah market surrounded by nearly empty shelves cleared of decorations by Iraqis seeking holiday cheer after a year of relentless violence ... Ahmed Khaled, a Sunni Muslim from Baghdad’s northern Adhamiyah area, asks a seller wearing a Santa hat for a massive 1.75 metre Christmas tree because he thinks his current one is too small ... ....
ISIS Carried Out A 'Complex And Penetrating Attack' In The Capital Of Iraq For The First Time
Edit Business Insider 19 Sep 2014
Institute for the Study of War. The Attack ... Security Forces also ordered commercial shops to be closed in the predominantly Iraqi Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiyah. Adhamiyah lies just across the Aaima bridge from Kadhmiyah ... More likely, however, the attacks will trigger increased activities of Iraqi Shi’a militia in Baghdad in order to target ISIS sleeper cells and predominantly Iraqi Sunni areas including Adhamiyah ... email ... OR ... ....
Crisis in the Middle East: The end of a country, and the start of a ...
Edit The Independent 10 Aug 2014
Iraq has disintegrated. Little is exchanged between its three great communities – Shia, Sunni and Kurd – except gunfire ... By the end of the month the group had announced a caliphate straddling the Iraq-Syria border ... This was particularly true of Sunni districts such as al-Adhamiyah on the east bank of the Tigris River, where young men rightly believed that if they passed through a checkpoint they were likely to be arrested or worse ... ....
A Sectarian Storm is Brewing in Iraq
Edit The Daily Beast 03 Aug 2014
The Islamic State threatens Baghdad and hopes to provoke a new civil war. But Iraq’s capital won’t fall without a bloody fight ... I was meeting with a former leader in the Mahdi Army, Iraq’s largest Shia militia ... A Saudi,” Aala said ... Before I met sheikh Raad at night, I’d gone that afternoon to Adhamiyah, a well-to-do Sunni area in Baghdad, where a large private generator buzzed outside the gate of sheikh Amir Saqr al Azawi’s house ... ....
Abducted Iraqi official released
Edit The Siasat Daily 27 Jul 2014
Baghdad, July 27.. An Iraqi official who along with his security guards was abducted here has been released, an official said Sunday. "Riyadh al-Adhadh and his guards have been released by their kidnappers," an interior ministry official told Xinhua. Al-Adhadh has reached his house in Adhamiyah district in northern Baghdad and has informed the security forces about his safety, the official said ... Recommend Twitter. Comments(0) ... ....
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