List of wars involving Iraq
This is a list of wars that Iraq has been involved in (as they were locally named where applicable):
Conflict |
Iraq and allies |
Opponents |
Results |
Iraqi losses |
Head of State |
Military |
Civilians |
Great Iraqi Revolution (1920) |
Iraqi rebels |
United Kingdom British Raj |
Defeat
|
6,000-10,000 |
2,050-4,000 |
None |
First Barzani Revolt (1931–1932) |
Iraq United Kingdom |
Barzani Kurds |
Victory
|
? |
Faisal I of Iraq |
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) |
Iraq Germany Italy |
United Kingdom British Raj Royalists Transjordan Australia New Zealand |
Defeat
- Re-installation of Hashemite royal dynasty and pro-British government.
|
~500 |
? |
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani |
Second Barzani Revolt (1943-1945) |
Iraq |
Barzani Kurds |
Victory
|
? |
Faisal II of Iraq |
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949) |
Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia HWA ALA |
Israel |
Defeat
|
? |
None |
Mosul Uprising (1959) |
Iraq |
Arab nationalists |
Government victory
- Iraq remains outside the UAR.
|
2,426 |
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i |
First Kurdish–Iraqi War (1961–1970) |
Iraq Syria |
KDP |
Stalemate
|
~10,000 |
? |
Six Day War (1967) |
Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Lebanon |
Israel |
Defeat
|
10 |
None |
Abdul Rahman Arif |
Yom Kippur War (1973) |
Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Algeria Cuba Morocco Tunisia |
Israel |
Defeat[1]
|
278 |
None |
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
Second Kurdish–Iraqi War (1974–1975) |
Iraq |
KDP |
Victory
- Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan.
|
7,000 |
? |
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) |
Iraq MEK |
Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades |
Stalemate
|
105,000– 375,000 |
~100,000 |
Saddam Hussein |
Gulf War (1990–1991) |
Iraq |
Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Oman UAE Qatar |
Defeat
|
20,000– 35,000 |
3,664 |
Sha'aban Intifada (1991) |
Iraq MEK |
Badr Brigades Dawa |
Victory (Southern front)
|
~5,000 |
80,000– 230,000 |
KDP PUK |
Defeat (Northern front)
|
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1995–1996) |
KDP Iraq PDKI |
PUK United States |
Retreat
|
? |
Operation Desert Fox (1998) |
Iraq |
United States United Kingdom |
Ceasefire
- Much Iraqi infrastructure destroyed.
|
600– 2,000 |
Iraq War (2003–2011) |
Iraq |
United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga |
Defeat (phase 1)
|
7,600– 10,800 |
Disputed |
Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan MNF–I
|
SCJL Naqshbandi Army al-Qaeda
Free Iraqi Army Ansar al-Islam IAI
Mahdi Army Special Groups Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah |
Government victory (phase 2)
|
17,690 |
Jalal Talabani |
Iraqi Civil War (2014–) |
Iraq Iran Syria CJTF–OIR
Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah Hezbollah
Iraqi Kurdistan Rojava Yezidi forces Assyrian forces |
ISIL Free Iraqi Army IAI Ansar al-Islam Mujahideen Army Ansar al-Sunnah |
Ongoing
|
~6,300 |
~16,400 |
Fuad Masum |
Other armed conflicts involving Iraq
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References
- ↑ References:
- Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
- Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Double Day and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
- Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
- Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
- 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false 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 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.