List of wars involving Iraq
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Iraq and its predecessor states.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Iraqi losses | Head of State | Prime Minister | |
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Military | Civilians | ||||||
Mesopotamian Campaign (1914–1918 WWI) |
Ottoman Empire
|
United Kingdom | Defeat
|
(Ottoman rule) |
(Ottoman rule) | ||
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts
(1919–1924) |
United Kingdom | Kingdom of Kurdistan
Kurdish Tribesmen |
Government victory
|
Sir Percy Cox (British High Commissioner) After 1920: King Faisal I |
Sir Percy Cox (British High Commissioner) After 1920: | ||
Great Iraqi Revolution (1920) |
Iraqi Rebels | United Kingdom | Defeat
|
10,000 |
4,000 |
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Ikhwan Raid on Busayya
(1927) |
United Kingdom | Ikhwan | Defeat
|
20 | |||
Yazidi Revolt
(1935) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Yazidi Tribesmen | Government victory
|
? | ? | ||
Iraqi Shia Revolts (1935–1936) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Shia Tribesmen | Government victory
|
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Iraqi Coup D'etat (1941) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Golden Square Rebels | Government defeat
|
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Anglo-Iraqi War (1941 WWII) |
Kingdom of Iraq (Golden Square) Germany Italy |
United Kingdom India Iraq Levies Royalists Transjordan Australia New Zealand Greece |
Defeat
|
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Barzani Revolt (1943–1945) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Barzani Kurds | Government victory
|
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Al-Wathbah Uprising
(1948) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Communists | Government victory
|
300–400 | |||
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) |
Egypt Kingdom of Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Yemen HWA ALA |
Israel | Defeat
|
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14 July Revolution (1958) |
Hashemite Arab Federation
Support:
|
Free Officers | Defeat
|
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Mosul Uprising (1959) |
Iraqi Republic | Arab Nationalists | Government victory
|
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First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) |
Iraqi Republic Syria → Syria |
KDP | Stalemate | ||||
Ramadan Revolution (1963) |
Iraqi Republic | Arab Nationalists | Government defeat
|
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Ar-Rashid Revolt
(1963) |
Iraqi Republic | Communists | Government victory
|
1+ | |||
November coup d'état
(1963) |
Iraqi Republic | Nasserists | Nasserist victory
|
250 | |||
Six-Day War (1967) |
United Arab Republic Syria Jordan Iraqi Republic Lebanon |
Israel | Defeat
|
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October War (1973) |
Egypt Syria Ba'athist Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba |
Israel | Defeat[1]
|
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Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) |
Ba'athist Iraq | KDP Iran |
Government victory (except against Iran)[3]
|
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Arvand Conflict (1974–1975) |
Iraq | Iran | Defeat
|
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Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) |
Iraq MEK DRFLA Sudan |
Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades |
Stalemate
|
375,000 |
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Invasion of Kuwait
(1990) |
Iraq | Kuwait | Victory
|
656 | ? | ||
Gulf War (1990–1991) |
→ Iraq | Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Oman United Arab Emirates Qatar Italy Australia |
Defeat
|
35,000 |
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1991 Iraqi uprisings (1991) |
Iraq MEK |
Badr Brigades Dawa |
Government victory (Southern front)
|
230,000 | |||
KDP PUK |
Government defeat (Northern front)
| ||||||
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1995–1996) |
KDP Iraq KDPI |
PUK United States |
Stalemate
|
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Bombing of Iraq (1998) |
Iraq | United States United Kingdom |
Defeat
|
(KIA or WIA) |
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Second Sadr Uprising (1999) |
Iraq | Badr Brigades Dawa |
Government victory
|
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Iraq War (2003–2011) |
Iraq | United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga |
Defeat (Phase 1)
|
10,800 |
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→ Iraq Peshmerga MNF–I
|
SCJL Naqshbandi Army Free Iraqi Army al-Qaeda ISI Ansar al-Islam IAI Mahdi Army Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah |
Government victory (Phase 2)
|
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War in Iraq (2013–2017) |
Iraq Peshmerga Sinjar Alliance CJTF–OIR
Iran |
ISIL Ansar al-Islam SCJL Naqshbandi Army Mujahideen Army |
Government victory
|
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2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (2017) |
Iraq | Iraqi Kurdistan | Victory
|
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Iraqi Insurgency (2017–present) |
Iraq | Naqshbandi Army ISIL |
Ongoing | ||||
Syrian civil war (2017–2019) |
Iraq
Syria |
ISIL |
Victory
|
Other armed conflicts involving Iraq[]
History of Iraq |
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Iraq portal |
- Wars during Mandatory Iraq
- 1921
- Smaller conflicts, revolutions, coups and periphery conflicts
- Simele massacre 1933
- Joint Operation Arvand 1969, Iranian show of force that Iraq did not resist
- Kurdish rebellion of 1983 (part of Iran–Iraq War)
- Iraqi no-fly zones conflict, 1991–2003
- Kurdistan Islamist conflict, 2001–2004 (fought on de jure Iraqi territory, but with no Iraqi involvement)
References[]
- ^ References:
- Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
- Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, 1974, page 450
- Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Abt Books, 1983
- Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
- Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P. R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
- Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
- Charles Liebman, "The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society"[permanent dead link] Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
- ^ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It – American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ J. Schofield, Militarization and War, p. 122
- ^ Rossiter, Mike, Target Basra , Corgi, 2009 ISBN 0552157007 ISBN 978-0552157001, p. 210
- ^ Dan Murphy (27 April 2004). "Sadr the agitator: like father, like son". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ "With Iraqi-Kurdish Talks Stalled, Phone Diplomacy Averts New Clashes". New York Times.
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