The Iraq War in Anbar Province was a counter-insurgency campaign in the
Iraq War, waged in the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq from 2003 to
2011. It was fought primarily between the United States Marine Corps and
the Federal government of Iraq against members of the Iraqi insurgency
led by Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Almost 9,000 Iraqis and 1,335 Americans
were killed during the war in Anbar, mostly between April 2004 and
September 2007. Savage fighting occurred in the province in 2004,
including the First and Second Battle of Fallujah. Though the fighting
initially featured heavy urban warfare, in later years insurgents
focused on ambushing the American and Iraqi security forces with
improvised explosive devices. Both sides committed multiple human rights
violations, such as the Fallujah killings and Haditha killings. In
August 2006, several tribes located near Ramadi and led by Sheikh Abdul
Sattar Abu Risha formed the Anbar Awakening and revolted against AQI. US
and Iraqi tribal forces regained control of Anbar Province in 2007 and
turned it over to the Iraqi Government in 2008. The last American forces
left the province on 7 December 2011.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_in_Anbar_Province>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1602:
The Dutch East India Company was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company>
1923 –The Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso's
first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo
Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Club_of_Chicago>
1942:
World War II: After being forced to flee the Philippines, U.S.
General Douglas MacArthur announced in Terowie, South Australia, "I
shall return."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur>
1987:
The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (AZT) became the first
antiviral medication approved for use against HIV and AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine>
1993:
The Troubles: The second of two bomb attacks by the Provisional
IRA in Warrington, England, killed two children.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
forethoughtful:
Having or full of forethought; provident; proactive; visionary.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forethoughtful>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania Which
insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.
--Friedrich Hölderlin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_H%C3%B6lderlin>