Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh. The Hooded Man (or The Man on the Box) [1] is an image showing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. The photo has been portrayed as an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, [1] "the defining image of the scandal" [2][3] and "symbol of the torture at Abu ...
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These abuses included physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the ...
200–1,000+ killed. 2,000 captured [4] 1,800–2,700 vehicles destroyed or abandoned. The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra.
Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970 – April 20, 2011) was an American war photographer. [1] ... Iraq photos. Hondros's images from Iraq, especially a January 2005 picture ...
Ashley Gilbertson (born 22 January 1978) is an Australian photographer. He is known for his images of the Iraq War and the effects of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on returning veterans and their families. Gilbertson is a member of VII Photo Agency. In 2004 Gilbertson won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club for his ...
Haditha massacre. The Haditha massacre was a series of killings on November 19, 2005, in which a group of United States marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians. [1][2] The killings occurred in the city of Haditha in Iraq's western province of Al Anbar. Among the dead were men, women, elderly people and children as young as three years old ...
The Iraq War(Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War,[80][81]was a prolonged conflict in Iraqlasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasionby a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist governmentof Saddam Hussein.
Battles/wars. Global War on Terrorism. Iraq War. Lynndie Rana England (born November 8, 1982) [1] is a former United States Army Reserve soldier who was prosecuted for mistreating detainees during the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse that occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the Iraq War. [2]