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 British Raj	Defeat Faysal ibn Husayn installed as King.	6,000-10,000	2,050-4,000	None
First Barzani Revolt (1931–1932)	Iraq United Kingdom	Barzani Kurds	Victory Uprising quelled.	?		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 Uprising quelled.	?		Faisal II of Iraq
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Kingdom of Yemen Holy War Army ALA	Israel	Defeat Arab League invasion of former Mandatory Palestine repelled. 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state.	?	None	Faisal II of Iraq
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 Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement	~10,000	?	Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
Six Day War (1967)	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.	10	None	Abdul Rahman Arif
October War (1973)	Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba	Israel	Defeat^[1] Arab invasion of Israeli-held territories repelled, UN ceasefire. Agreement on Disengagement and Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty^[2]	278	None	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Second Kurdish–Iraqi War (1974–1975)	Iraq	KDP	Victory Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan.	7,000	?	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)	Iraq MEK	Iran KDP PUK File:Badr Organisation Military flag.svg Badr Brigades	Stalemate Both Iraq and Iran accepted UNSC Resolution 598.	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 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	File:Badr Organisation Military flag.svg 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 United States	Stalemate Iraqi withdrawal from Iraqi Kurdistan.	?
Bombing of Iraq (1998)	Iraq	United States United Kingdom	Unclear Much Iraqi infrastructure destroyed.	1,400	?
Iraq War (2003–2011)	Iraq	United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga	Defeat (Phase 1) Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein.	7,600– 10,800	Disputed
Iraq War (2003–2011)	Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan MNF–I United States United Kingdom South Korea Italy Poland Australia Georgia Ukraine Netherlands Spain Romania Bulgaria Denmark Thailand Honduras El Salvador Dominican Republic Albania Nicaragua	SCJL Naqshbandi Army Free Iraqi Army al-Qaeda ISI Ansar al-Islam File:IAILogo.png IAI Mahdi Army Special Groups File:Badr Organisation Military flag.svg Badr Brigades File:Kata'ib Hezbollah flag.svg Kata'ib Hezbollah	Government victory (Phase 2) Depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security. Re-establishment of democratic elections. U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement	17,690	Disputed	Jalal Talabani
Second Iraqi Civil War (2014–)	Iraq Iran Syria CJTF–OIR United States Canada United Kingdom France Australia Belgium Netherlands Denmark Turkey Jordan Morocco Peace Companies File:Badr Organisation Military flag.svg Badr Brigades File:Kata'ib Hezbollah flag.svg Kata'ib Hezbollah Hezbollah Iraqi Kurdistan Rojava Sinjar Alliance Assyrian forces	ISIL Ansar al-Islam Free Iraqi Army File:IAILogo.png IAI Mujahideen Army Ansar al-Sunnah	Ongoing Iranian intervention in Iraq American-led intervention in Iraq	~11,400	~19,000+	Fuad Masum

Other armed conflicts involving Iraq

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
November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état
Kurdish Rebellion of 1983 (part of Iran-Iraq war)
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict 1991-2003
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict 2001-2004

References

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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 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.

[1] 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.

[2] Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward

[3] Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Double Day and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450

[4] Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983

[5] Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498

[6] 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2

[7] Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177

[8] 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.

[2] Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.

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