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This is a list of wars that Iraq has been involved in (as they were locally named where applicable):
Conflict
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Iraq and allies
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Opponents
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Results
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Head of State
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Prime Minister
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Iraqi losses
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Military
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Civilians
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Great Iraqi Revolution (1920)
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Iraqi rebels
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United Kingdom
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Defeat
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Not applicable
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6,000– 10,000
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2,050– 4,000
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Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
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Iraq Germany Italy
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United Kingdom Royalists Transjordan Australia New Zealand Greece
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Defeat
- Re-installation of Hashemite royal dynasty and pro-British government
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Sherif Sharaf
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~500
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?
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Barzani Revolt (1943–1945)
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Iraq
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Peshmerga
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Victory
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|
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?
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First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)
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Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Kingdom of Yemen Holy War Army ALA
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Israel
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Defeat
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?
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None
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Mosul Uprising (1959)
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Iraq
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Arab nationalists
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Government victory
- Iraq remains outside the UAR
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|
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2,426
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First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970)
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Iraq Syria
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Peshmerga
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Stalemate
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~10,000
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?
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Six-Day War (1967)
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Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq
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Israel
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Defeat
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|
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10
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None
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October War (1973)
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Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba
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Israel
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Defeat[1]
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|
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278
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None
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Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975)
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Iraq
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Peshmerga Iran
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Victory (except against Iran)[3]
- Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan
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7,000
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?
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First Sadr Uprising (1979–1980)
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Iraq
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Sadrists
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Government victory
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|
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Thousands
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Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
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Iraq MEK DRFLA Sudan
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Iran Peshmerga Badr Brigades Dawa Hezbollah
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Stalemate
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105,000– 375,000
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~100,000
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Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–?)[4]
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Sudan Janjaweed SSDF Nuer White Army SPLA-Nasir LRA Libya Iraq
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SPLA SPDF SSLM Anyanya II Eastern Front Uganda Ethiopia Eritrea
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Stalemate
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?
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Gulf War (1990–1991)
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Iraq
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Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Oman UAE Qatar Italy Australia Argentina
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Defeat
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20,000– 35,000
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3,664
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Sha'aban Intifada (1991)
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Iraq MEK
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Badr Brigades Dawa
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Government victory (Southern front)
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~5,000
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80,000– 230,000
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Peshmerga
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Defeat (Northern front)
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Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1995–1996)
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KDP Iraq
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PUK United States
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Stalemate
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?
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Bombing of Iraq (1998)
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Iraq
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United States United Kingdom
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Defeat
- Much Iraqi infrastructure destroyed
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?
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Second Sadr Uprising (1999)
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Iraq
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Badr Brigades Dawa
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Government victory
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|
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Iraq War (2003–2011)
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Iraq
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United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga
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Defeat (Phase 1)
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7,600– 10,800
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Disputed
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Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan United States United Kingdom South Korea Italy Poland Australia Georgia Ukraine Netherlands Spain Romania Bulgaria Denmark Thailand Honduras El Salvador Dominican Republic Albania Nicaragua
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SCJL Naqshbandi Army Free Iraqi Army al-Qaeda ISI Ansar al-Islam File:IAILogo.png IAI Mahdi Army Badr Brigades File:Kata'ib Hezbollah flag.svg Kata'ib Hezbollah
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Inconclusive (Phase 2)
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|
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17,690
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Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
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Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan Sinjar Alliance Rojava Syria United States Canada United Kingdom France Germany Australia Belgium Netherlands Denmark Turkey Jordan Morocco Iran Hezbollah
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ISIL Ansar al-Islam SCJL Naqshbandi Army Mujahideen Army
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Government victory
- Iraqi territorial integrity preserved
- ISIL expelled from all strongholds in Iraq[8]
- ISIL genocides against Yazidis, Shias, and Christians in 2014
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|
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34,000+
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67,376
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Kirkuk Crisis (2017)
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Iraq
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Iraqi Kurdistan
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Victory
- Iraq retakes disputed territories
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?
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- ^ 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[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
- ^ a b Martell, Peter (2018). First Raise a Flag. London: Hurst & Company. ISBN 978-1849049597.
- ^ Rossiter, Mike, Target Basra , Corgi, 2009 ISBN 0552157007 ISBN 978-0552157001, p. 210
- ^ al-Khaz'Ali, Shaikh Nouman. Tareekh al-Iraq, pp. 67–72
- ^ 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.
- ^ "استمرار المواجهات العسكرية في كركوك" (in Arabic). Rudaw. 16 October 2017.