7 June 2006
☠Killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
AttackerUnited States➜TargetArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)
On 7 June 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in an American strike on a house near Baqubah; Abu Hamza al-Muhajir succeeded him, and months later the "Islamic State of Iraq" was proclaimed.