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List of wars involving Iraq

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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
Conflict	Iraq and allies	Opponents	Results	Military	Civilians	Head of State
Great Iraqi Revolution (1920)	Iraqi rebels	United Kingdom	Defeat Faysal ibn Husayn installed as King.	6,000-10,000	2,050-4,000	None
First Barzani Revolt (1931–1932)	Iraq	Barzani Kurds	Victory Uprising quelled.	?		Faisal I of Iraq
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)	Iraq Arab irregulars Syrian Committee Germany Italy	India Royalists Transjordan	Defeat Re-installation of Hashemite royal dynasty and pro-British government. Defeat of the German-Italian attempt to entrench an Axis state in Iraq.	~500	?	Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
Second Barzani Revolt (1943-1945)	Iraq	Barzani Kurds	Victory Uprising quelled.	?		Faisal II of Iraq
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria HWA ALF		Defeat Tactical and strategic Arab failure. 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state.	?	None	Faisal II of Iraq
First Kurdish–Iraqi War (1961–1970)	Iraq	KDP	Stalemate Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement	~10,000	?	Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
Six Day War (1967)	Iraq		Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.	10	None	Abdul Rahman Arif
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Iraq		Defeat Arab invasion of Israel repelled; UN ceasefire. Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement. Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty	278	None	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Second Kurdish–Iraqi War (1974–1975)	Iraq	KDP	Victory Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan.	?		Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)	Iraq MEK PDKI	KDP PUK Badr Brigades	Stalemate Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598. Status quo, observed by UNIIMOG.	105,000– 375,000	~100,000	Saddam Hussein
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Iraq	United States	Defeat Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored. Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure.	20,000– 35,000	3,664
Sha'aban Intifada (1991)	Iraq MEK	Badr Brigades Dawa	Victory (Southern front) Uprising suppressed.	~5,000	80,000– 230,000
Sha'aban Intifada (1991)	Iraq MEK	KDP PUK	Defeat (Northern front) Kurdish Autonomous Republic established.	~5,000	80,000– 230,000
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1995–1996)	KDP Iraq PDKI	PUK INC United States	Retreat Iraqi withdrawal from Iraqi Kurdistan after Operation Desert Strike.	?
Operation Desert Fox (1998)	Iraq	United States	Ceasefire Much Iraqi infrastructure destroyed.	600– 2,000
Iraq War (2003–2011)	Iraq	United States Peshmerga	Defeat (phase 1) Invasion and occupation of Iraq. Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein.	7,600– 11,000	Disputed
Iraq War (2003–2011)	Iraqi Kurdistan MNF–I United States	SCJL Naqshbandi Army ISIL al-Qaeda Free Iraqi Army Ansar al-Islam IAI Mahdi Army Special Groups Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah	Victory (phase 2) Depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security. Re-establishment of democratic elections. U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement	16,623	Disputed	Jalal Talabani
Iraqi Insurgency (2011–)	United States YPG PKK Mahdi Army Special Groups Hezbollah Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah	Islamic State Ansar al-Islam Hamas of Iraq 1920 Brigade Rashidin Army Al-Nusra Front	Ongoing Increase in violence since US withdrawal	-	-	Jalal Talabani

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Classical antiquity
Achaemenid Assyria Seleucid Babylonia Parthian Babylonia Roman Mesopotamia Sasanian Asorestan
Middle Ages
Islamic conquest Rashidun Caliphate Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Hamdanids Buyid amirate of Iraq Marwanids Uqaylids Al-Mazeedi Ayyubids Seljuk Empire Zengids Ilkhanate Jalairid Sultanate Kara Koyunlu Aq Qoyunlu
Early modern period
Safavids Ottoman Iraq Mamluk dynasty
Modern Iraq
Mandatory Iraq Kingdom of Iraq Republic (1958–68) Ba'athist rule (1968–2003) Occupation (2003–11) Recent history
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Iraqi revolt against the British 1920
Mahmud Barzanji revolts 1919-1924
Ikhwan raid on South Iraq 1921
Ikhwan raid on Busayya 1927
Simele massacre 1933
Yazidi Revolt (1935)
Shia Revolts 1935–1936
Al-Wathbah uprising 1948
14 July Revolution 1958-1959
1959 Mosul uprising
Ramadan Revolution
Ar-Rashid revolt
Kurdish Rebellion of 1983 (part of Iran-Iraq war)
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict 1991-2003
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict 2001-2004

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Lists of wars involving Asian countries

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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