The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (Arabic: نصب الجندي المجهول, romanized: naṣb al-jundiyyi al-majhūli) is a monument in central Baghdad built by Italian...
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A Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is a monument dedicated to the services of an unknown soldier and to the common memories...
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The first of these structures was The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (1982); followed by Al-Shaheed (1983) and finally the Victory Arch (1989). The three...
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Freedom Monument (or Nasb al-Hurriyah) (Arabic: نصب الحرية), located in al-Tahrir Square (Liberation Square) in the center of Baghdad, capital of Iraq...
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Arch and the Unknown Soldier's Monument. Al-Shaheed Monument, also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument dedicated to the Iraqi soldiers who died...
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Victory Arch (redirect from The triumphal sword arch)
The arches were opened to the public on 8 August 1989. It is one of Baghdad's visitor attractions and near to the Monument to the Unknown Soldier. The...
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"There are unknown unknowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of...
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The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion...
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Khaled al-Rahal (category Artists from Baghdad)
Friulani, Online: GlobalSecurity.org "Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad, Iraq" Baghdad Writers Group, Baghdad and Beyond, Middle East Editorial Associates...
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Rifat Chadirji (category Artists from Baghdad)
1959, he was commissioned to construct a major public monument, The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, which was later destroyed by Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist...
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List of mosques in Baghdad The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad Victory Arch, Baghdad Timthal Baghdad (Baghdad's Statue) Baghdad Roxburgh, D.J.,...
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officially opened in 1962. Iraqi Fighter Monument Monument to the Unknown Soldier Victory Arch Baghdad Tourism Guide Book, Baghdad edition, 2011, p. 81...
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War memorial (redirect from War monument)
Monument Welberg (Welberg (Steenbergen)) Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Westerplatte Monument Warsaw Uprising Monument Mały Powstaniec Monument to the Heroes...
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Ishtar Sheraton Hotel opens. The Monument to the Unknown Soldier inaugurated. 1983 – Al-Shaheed Monument built. 1985 Baghdad Festival of Arab theatre begins...
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Firdos Square (category Buildings and structures in Baghdad)
architect of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier Rifat Chadirji expressed interest in rebuilding the monument on its original site. As of 2013, the al-Dawiri...
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Grand Festivities Square (category Baghdad)
leader. Unknown Soldier's Monument, Zawra Park, Baghdad In 2007, the new Iraqi government wanted to demolish the Victory Arch monuments and the decision was...
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series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency...
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Iraq Museum (redirect from Baghdad Museum)
The Iraq Museum (Arabic: المتحف العراقي) is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad. It is sometimes informally called the National Museum of Iraq...
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Al-Rusafa, Iraq (redirect from Baghdad Rusafa)
the biggest landmark in Baghdad and one of the most visited. It has also been home to a number of monumental artworks including the Monument to the Unknown...
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17th of Ramadan Mosque (category Mosques in Baghdad)
the mosque was renamed "14th of Ramadan Mosque." In 1959, Abd al-Karim Qasim inaugurated the first Monument of the Unknown Soldier in front of the mosque...
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Operation Northern Delay (category CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown)
six divisions in the area to protect its northern flank, providing strategic relief for Coalition Forces advancing on Baghdad from the south. Bashur Airfield...
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Siege of Sadr City (category Sieges of Baghdad)
The siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by US and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy...
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Iraq War (redirect from Operation Iraqi Freedom soldier)
former Iraq soldiers protesting in Baghdad who were throwing rocks at coalition forces. The policy to disband the Iraq Army was reversed by the CPA only...
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List of Iraqi artists (category Artists from Baghdad)
Iraqi public artworks Al-Shaheed Monument. Baghdad The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Baghdad Victory Arch, Baghdad Mermier, F., Liban, espaces partagés...
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(2017–present) Afghan–Iraqi Freedom Memorial in Salem, Oregon, USA Al-Shaheed Monument in Baghdad, Iraq Arlington West and Arlington Southwest, USA Iraq and Afghanistan...
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collide while trying to land in Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier is killed, and two Iraqis and three Americans injured. The incident is ascribed to mechanical failure...
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Al-Sa'doun Street (category Streets in Baghdad)
the first Monument to t'he Unknown Soldier which was established by Abd al-Karim Qasim. However, the monument was later demolished and was moved to the...
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The November 2010 Baghdad bombings were a series of attacks in Baghdad, Iraq that killed more than 110 people. At least 17 explosions occurred in the...
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Mahmudiyah rape and killings (category Baghdad Governorate in the Iraq War)
OpenSource.gov, July 10, 2006 Al-Mujahidin Army Responds to Alleged Rape of Iraqi Girl by US Soldiers Baghdad al-Rashid forum in Arabic via OpenSource.gov, July...
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are fired on by two surface-to-air missiles and one crashes near Fallujah and on its way to Baghdad airport; 16 soldiers are killed and 20 wounded. November...
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