• Defense of the Karbala City Hall, also known as the Battle of the City Hall, was a series of fights that took place between 3 and 6 April 2004, between...
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    It portrays the defense of the Karbala City Hall by the Polish and Bulgarian stabilization forces during the Shia rebellion in 2004. The film had its...
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    Karbala or Kerbala (/ˈkɑːrbələ/ KAR-bə-lə, US also /ˌkɑːrbəˈlɑː/ KAR-bə-LAH; Arabic: كَرْبَلَاء, romanized: Karbalāʾ, IPA: [karbaˈlaːʔ]) is a city in central...
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  • the 2003 invasion of Iraq Defense of Karbala City Hall, during the Iraq spring fighting of 2004 Battle of Karbala (2007), during the Iraq War This disambiguation...
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  • Battle of Baghdad (2003) Battle of Majar al-Kabir Ramadan Offensive (2003) Defense of the Karbala City Hall First Battle of Fallujah Siege of Sadr City Battle...
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    The siege of Basra, code-named Operation Karbala-5 (Persian: عملیات کربلای ۵) or The Great Harvest (Arabic: الحصاد الاكبر), was an offensive operation...
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  • Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018. "ISIS withdraws from al-Bokamal city after killing about 50 of the regime forces,...
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    number was 25. The casualties of the entire division were 65. Polish involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq Defense of the Karbala City Hall Grzegorz Jasiński...
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    Grzegorz Kaliciak (officer) (category Military personnel of the Iraq War)
    City Hall in Karbala. He also served in Task Force White Eagle in Afghanistan. He's an author of a book "Karbala. Raport z obrony City Hall", which was...
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    suffering heavy losses in weeks of fighting, Mahdi Army forces withdrew from the city of Karbala. This left the Najaf-Kufa region the only area still under firm...
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  • island. 20 September 2019 – 2019 Karbala bombing: An unidentified man boarded a minibus in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, disembarking a little later...
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    al-Qaeda hands and the whole of Sadr City still under Mahdi Army control. In late August, heavy fighting erupted in Karbala between the Mahdi Army and policemen...
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    exponents of a unique genre of Muslim elegiacal poetry called marsiya centred on Imam Husain's supreme sacrifice in the Battle of Karbala, which is commemorated...
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  • 2004 in Iraq (category Years of the 21st century in Iraq)
    heated sermon, which leads to the uprising of the Mahdi army. April 3 – Polish-Bulgarian defense of Karbala's City Hall starts. April 4 – Operation Vigilant...
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    Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence...
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    troops from the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army secured the cities of Najaf and Karbala to prevent any Iraqi counterattacks on the 3rd Infantry...
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    and leaders of Iran-backed militias attended the funeral procession. Soleimani's remains were taken to the holy Shia cities of Karbala and Najaf. On...
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    down near Karbala, killing seven soldiers and wounding four others. This event appeared to indicate a significant enemy presence in the city. The Encyclopedia...
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    secured the Karbala Gap, a key approach to Baghdad, then secured the bridges over the Euphrates River, and US Army forces poured through the gap on to Baghdad...
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    groups against the United States. The Iraqi insurgents and foreign Mujahideen present in the city prepared fortified defenses in advance of the anticipated...
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    Troy (redirect from City of Troy)
    around 700 BC. During the Archaic period, the city's defenses once again included the reused citadel wall of Troy VI. Later on, the walls became tourist...
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    Lahore (redirect from City of Lahore)
    the martyrdom of Imam Husain at Karbala with massive processions that take place during the first ten days of the month of Muharram. Basant is a traditional...
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    bringing the total count to 7. In October 2007, Karbala became the eighth province to transfer to provincial Iraqi control. The transfer of Basra in December...
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    late 2002 and continuing after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, large-scale protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated...
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    defense lawyer called the execution "an unfortunate display of arrogant aggressor's justice by the United States of America under the leadership of American...
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    David Petraeus (category Recipients of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal)
    Atkinson of The Washington Post in the book In the Company of Soldiers, Petraeus led his division through fierce fighting south of Baghdad, in Karbala, Hilla...
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    sympathy for him following the collapse of his government, which many residents considered oppressive. The city was one of the most religious and culturally...
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    policy, ruling that the Geneva Conventions do apply. In response to the events at Abu Ghraib, the United States Department of Defense removed 17 soldiers...
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    US-led invasion of Iraq. On the night of 24–25 March, the bulk of the Marines of Regimental Combat Team 1 passed through the city over the bridges and attacked...
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    deployed to Samarra, Baghdad, Karbala, and the abandoned U.S. military post formerly known as Camp Speicher. At the end of November 2014, an Israeli website...
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