In recent years , '' Carabinieri '' units have been dispatched on peacekeeping missions , including Kosovo , Afghanistan , and Iraq . In 2003 twelve '' Carabinieri '' were killed in a suicide bomb attack on their base in Nasiriyah , near Basra , in southern Iraq , in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War ( see 2003 Nasiriyah bombing )
2003 Nasiriyah bombing
2003 Nasiriyah bombing
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