When did the invasion last in which the human shield action to Iraq was a strategy to prevent bombings of certain locations?
Human shield action to Iraq Human shield action to Iraq was a group of people who travelled to Iraq to act as human shields with the aim of preventing the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Turkish Armed Forces casualties in Syria A Turkish military intervention in Syria started on 24 August 2016, code-named by Turkey as "Operation Euphrates Shield," an ongoing cross-border operation by the Turkish military and allied groups in the Syrian Civil War. Operations were ongoing in the region between the Euphrates river to the east and the rebel-held area around Azaz to the west. The Turkish military and Turkey-backed Syrian rebel groups, some of which use the Free Syrian Army (FSA) label, have been fighting against forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) since 24 August 2016.