Picture of Camp Speicher in 2005, when it was still used as a United States military installation before being transferred to the Iraqi government in 2011.
The Camp Speicher massacre was an act of mass murder perpetrated by ISIS on 12 June 2014, against Iraqi armed forces cadets near Tikrit Air Academy (also known as Camp Speicher). As a result of ISIS seizing key provinces in northern Iraq in a large-scale offensive, and the Iraqi armed forces suffering a major collapse, a number of unarmed and ununiformed Iraqi cadets vacated Camp Speicher.[3][4] A large number of them were subsequently captured by ISIS and summarily executed. In total, between 1,095 and 1,700[2] cadets were killed. At the time of the massacre, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 unarmed cadets in the vicinity of Camp Speicher,[5] and ISIS militants selected the Shia Muslims for execution. As of 2024[update], it remains the deadliest act of terrorism in Iraq and the second-deadliest act of terrorism in the world, surpassed only by the September 11 attacks, which were carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.[6]
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