During the [[Iraq War]], a [[Mahmudiyah incident|war crime]] took place in Mahmudiyah on March 12, 2006 in which five soldiers of the [[502d Infantry Regiment]], raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, [[Abeer QasimQassim Hamza al-Janabi]], and then murdered her, after killing her father Qassim Hamza Raheem, her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen and her six-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. The soldiers then burned the bodies to conceal evidence of the crime. Four of the soldiers were convicted of rape and murder, and the fifth was convicted of lesser crimes.
