On 22 February 2006, approximately 6:44 a.m. Arabia Standard Time, al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, was severely damaged in a bombing attack amidst the then-ongoing Iraq War. Constructed in the 10th
Photograph of al-Askari Shrine before the 2006 bombing
Photograph of Al-Askari Shrine after the first bombing in February 2006.
Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
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The Iraqi civil war was an armed conflict from 2006 to 2008 between various sectarian Shia and Sunni armed groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Mahdi Army, in addition to the Iraqi govern
A city street in Ramadi heavily damaged by the fighting in 2006
Aftermath of a car bombing in Baghdad in December 2007