An aerial bombing attack killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided bombs. Human Rights Watch characterised the bombing as a war crime.
The U.S. Department of Defense stated that it knew the facility had been used as a civil-defense shelter during the Iran–Iraq War, while the U.S. military maintained it had been converted into a command center or a military personnel bunker.
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