22 February 2006

✸Bombing of the al-Askari shrine

PartiesArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)Iraq / Saddam Hussein

On 22 February 2006 al-Qaeda in Iraq blew up the dome of the shrine of the two Askari Imams in Samarra, setting off a wave of sectarian killing between Sunnis and Shia that killed thousands within months.

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The "shrouds" demonstrations in Dahiyeh Islamic State of Iraq declared

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