Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Jazeera in Iraq. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Two pairs of truck bombs explode about five miles apart in the remote, northwestern Iraqi towns of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, 500 members of the minority Yazidi community are reported killed, the biggest insurgent attack in the war
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