Qahtaniyah bombings
| 2007 Qahtaniyah bombings | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Iraq War, Iraqi insurgency, and the Iraqi civil war | |
| Location | Til Ezer and Siba Sheikh Khidir, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq |
| Date | August 14, 2007 (UTC+3) |
| Target | Yazidis |
Attack type | Suicide truck bombs |
| Deaths | 796 (+4 bombers) |
| Injured | 1,562+ |
| Perpetrators | Unknown, al-Qaeda suspected |
The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq.
796 people were killed and at least 1,500 others were wounded, making it the Iraq War's deadliest car bomb attack. It is also the fourth deadliest act of terrorism in world history, after the September 11 attacks in the United States, the Camp Speicher massacre, also in Iraq, and the October 7th attack in Israel. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.