List of wars involving Iraq

This is a list of wars that Iraq has been involved in.

Conflict	Iraq and allies	Opponents	Results
First Barzani Revolt (1931–1932)	Iraq United Kingdom	Barzani rebels	Victory Uprising quelled.
Iraqi Shia Revolts (1935–1936)	Iraq	Shiite rebels	Victory Uprising quelled.
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)	Iraq Arab irregulars Syrian Committee Germany Italy	United Kingdom British Raj Royalists Transjordan Australia New Zealand	Defeat Re-installation of Hashemite royal dynasty and pro-British government. Defeat of the German-Italian attempt to entrench an Axis state in Iraq.
Second Barzani Revolt (1943-1945)	Iraq	Barzani rebels	Victory Uprising quelled.
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon HWA ALF	Israel	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.
14 July Revolution (1958)	Arab Federation	Free Officers	Regime change End of the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq.
Mosul uprising (1959)	Iraq	Nasserist rebels	Victory Coup attempt defeated.
First Kurdish–Iraqi War (1961–1970)	Iraq Syria	KDP	Stalemate Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement
Ramadan Revolution (1963)	Iraq IAF loyalists	Ba'ath Party IAF coup plotters	Regime change Overthrow of Abd al-Karim Qasim.
Ar-Rashid revolt (1963)	Iraq	Communist Party	Victory Uprising quelled.
Six Day War (1967)	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Egypt Syria Iraq	Israel	Defeat Geneva Conference and the Sinai Interim Agreement.
Second Kurdish–Iraqi War (1974–1975)	Iraq	KDP	Victory Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan.
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)	Iraq MEK	Iran KDP PUK	Stalemate Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598. Return to status quo, observed by UNIIMOG.
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Iraq	Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Oman UAE Qatar	Defeat Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored. Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure.
Shaaban Intifada (1991)	Iraq MEK	Shiite rebels KDP PUK	Victory Uprisings surpressed. Exodus of 2 million refugees from Iraq.
Iraqi-Kurdish Civil War (1996)	Iraq KDP	PUK INC	Indecisive Iraqi withdrawal from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Operation Desert Fox (1998)	Iraq	United States United Kingdom	Ceasefire Much Iraqi infrastructure destroyed.
1999 uprising (1999)	Iraq	Shiite rebels	Victory Uprisings surpressed.
Iraq War (2003–2011)	Iraq Ba'ath Loyalists SCJL Naqshbandi Army Islamic State of Iraq Al-Qaeda Mahdi Army Special Groups Badr Brigades	United States United Kingdom INC New Iraqi Army KDP PUK Australia Poland Ukraine Italy Georgia Spain Dominican Republic Netherlands Denmark Bulgaria	Regime change Invasion and occupation of Iraq. Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein. Depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security. Re-establishment of democratic elections. U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement On-going insurgency.