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
|
~89,500 | ~35,500 | Mehmed VI (Ottoman rule) | Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (Ottoman rule) |
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts (1919–1924) | United Kingdom | Kingdom of Kurdistan | Government victory
|
? | ? | Before 1920: Sir Percy Cox
After 1920: King Faisal I |
Before 1920: Sir Percy Cox
After 1920: Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani |
Great Iraqi Revolution (1920) |
Iraqi Rebels | United Kingdom | Defeat
|
6,000–10,000 | 2,050–4,000 | None | |
Ikhwan revolt (1927-1930) | United Kingdom | Ikhwan | Coalition Victory | 2,000 killed in total | Faisal I of Iraq | Faisal bin Sultan | |
Yazidi Revolt (1935) | Kingdom of Iraq | Yazidi Tribesmen | Government victory
|
? | ? | Ghazi of Iraq | Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi |
Iraqi Shia Revolts (1935–1936) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Shia Tribesmen | Government victory
|
~500 | |||
Iraqi Coup D'état (1941) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Golden Square Rebels | Government defeat
|
? | Faisal II of Iraq
|
Taha al-Hashimi | |
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941 WWII) |
Kingdom of Iraq (Golden Square) Germany Italy |
Defeat
|
~500 | ? | Sherif Sharaf | Rashid Ali al-Gaylani | |
Barzani Revolt (1943–1945) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Barzani Kurds | Government victory
|
? | Faisal II of Iraq
|
Nuri al-Said | |
Al-Wathbah Uprising (1948) | Kingdom of Iraq | Communists | Government victory
|
300–400 | Mohammad Hassan al-Sadr
| ||
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) |
Israel | Defeat
|
? | None | Muzahim al-Pachachi | ||
14 July Revolution (1958) |
Hashemite Arab Federation
Support: |
Free Officers | Defeat
|
~100 | Nuri al-Said | ||
Mosul Uprising (1959) |
Iraqi Republic | Arab Nationalists | Government victory
|
2,426 | Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i | Abd al-Karim Qasim
| |
First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) |
Iraqi Republic Syria → Syria |
KDP | Stalemate | ~10,000 | ? | ||
Ramadan Revolution (1963) |
Iraqi Republic | Arab Nationalists | Government defeat
|
100 | |||
Ar-Rashid Revolt (1963) | Iraqi Republic | Communists | Government victory
|
1+ | Abdul Salam Arif | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr | |
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
|
10 | None | Abdul Rahman Arif | Abdul Rahman Arif |
October War (1973) |
Egypt Syria Ba'athist Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba |
Israel | Defeat[1]
|
278 | None | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) |
Ba'athist Iraq | KDP Iran |
Government victory[3]
|
7,000 | ? | ||
Arvand Conflict (1974–1975) |
Iraq | Iran | Defeat
|
Saddam Hussein
|
Saddam Hussein
| ||
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) |
Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades |
Stalemate
|
105,000 375,000 |
~100,000 | |||
Invasion of Kuwait (1990)
|
Iraq | Kuwait | Victory
|
295+ | None | ||
Gulf War (1990–1991) |
→ Iraq | Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Oman United Arab Emirates Qatar Italy Australia |
Defeat
|
20,000–35,000 | 3,664 | ||
1991 Iraqi uprisings (1991) |
Iraq |
Badr Brigades Dawa |
Government victory (Southern front)
|
~5,000 | 80,000–230,000 | ||
KDP PUK |
Government defeat (Northern front)
| ||||||
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1995–1996) |
KDP Iraq KDPI |
PUK United States |
Stalemate
|
? | |||
Bombing of Iraq (1998) |
Iraq | United States United Kingdom |
Defeat
|
1,400[4](KIA or WIA) | ? | ||
Second Sadr Uprising (1999) |
Iraq | Badr Brigades Dawa |
Government victory
|
40+ | 200+[5] | ||
Iraq War (2003–2011) |
Iraq | United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga |
Defeat (Phase 1)
|
7,600–10,800 | 151,000–1,033,000+ | ||
→ Iraq Peshmerga MNF–I |
Government victory ( Phase 2 )
|
17,690 | Jalal Talabani | Nouri al-Maliki | |||
War in Iraq (2013–2017) |
Iraq Peshmerga Sinjar Alliance CJTF–OIR |
Government victory
|
25,000+ | 67,000+ | Fuad Masum | Haider al-Abadi | |
2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (2017) |
Iraq | Peshmerga | Victory
|
None | None | ||
Iraqi Insurgency (2017–present) |
Iraq | ISIL
|
Ongoing | 2,254+ | None | ||
Syrian civil war (2017–2019) |
ISIL
|
Victory
|
None | None | Barham Salih | Adil Abdul-Mahdi |
Other armed conflicts involving Iraq
History of Iraq |
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Iraq portal |
- Wars during Mandatory Iraq
- 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 zonesconflict, 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
- 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.