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x Battle of Sharqat   British Empire Baghdad  
The Battle of Sharqat (October 23—30, 1918) was between the British and the Ottoman Empire in the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I, which became the final conflict that ended as a result of the signing of armistice. Anticipating an Ottoman...
x Samarrah Offensive   Ottoman Empire Baghdad Khalil Pasha
The Samarrah Offensive (March 13 — April 23, 1917) was launched by the British against the Ottomans as part of the Mesopotamian Campaign in World War I. After Baghdad fell to the British on March 11, 1917, there were still 10,000 Ottoman troops...
British Empire
x Fall of Baghdad Meso-WW1-5 Ottoman Empire Diyala River Khalil Pasha
The British Indian Army fought the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. On 11 March 1917, after a series of defeats, it captured Baghdad after a two-year campaign. After the surrender of the Kut garrison on 29 April 1916, the British Army in...
British Raj Baghdad
Mesopotamia
x Battle of Cunaxa   Achaemenid Empire Euphrates  
The Battle of Cunaxa was fought in 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his elder brother Arsaces, who had inherited the Persian throne as Artaxerxes II in 404 BC. The great battle of the revolt of Cyrus took place 70 km north of Babylon, at Cunaxa ...
Baghdad
x 2003 invasion of Baghdad 2003 invasion of Baghdad United States of America Baghdad  
The Battle of Baghdad also known as the Fall of Baghdad was a military invasion of Baghdad that took place in early April 2003, as part of the invasion of Iraq. Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, Coalition Forces Land Component Command elements,...
Iraq
x Operation Iron Hammer Operation Iron Hammer United States of America Baghdad  
Operation Iron Hammer was a joint operation between the US Army, US Air Force and Iraqi Civil Defense Corps with the objective of preventing the staging of weapons by anti-coalition forces, and preemptively destroy enemy operating bases and fighters...
Iraqi insurgency
x Operation Phantom Linebacker   United States of America Baghdad  
Operation Phantom Linebacker was a coalition military operation in Iraq designed to interdict anti-government fighters from entering Iraq from Syria. The U.S. 3rd Brigade and the 2nd Infantry Division (United States) conducted the operation with the...
Syria
South Korea
Israel
Iraqi insurgency
x Operation Plymouth Rock   United States of America Baghdad  
During the Post-invasion of Iraq, Operation Plymouth Rock was a major anti-insurgent sweep of an area south of Baghdad launched on 23 November 2004. Iraqi, American and British troops took part. Elements of the American 24th Marine Expeditionary...
United Kingdom
Iraqi insurgency
x Operation Squeeze Play   United States of America Baghdad  
After the handover of sovereignty, Operation Squeeze Play was a combined U.S./Iraqi sweep of the western suburbs of Baghdad launched on 22 May 2005. Almost 300 suspects were detained in the first day of the operation. It followed Operation Matador,...
Iraqi insurgency Kosovo
x Battle of Baghdad Hulagu Baghdad 1258 Mongol Empire Baghdad  
The Siege of Baghdad, which occurred in 1258, was an invasion, siege and sacking of the city of Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at the time and the modern-day capital of Iraq, by the Ilkhanate Mongol forces along with other allied...
x Operation Forward Together   United States of America Baghdad  
Operation Together Forward, also known as Forward Together (in Arabic, Amaliya Ma’an ila Al-Amam), was an unsuccessful security plan in Iraq to significantly reduce the violence in Baghdad which had seen a sharp uprise since the mid-February 2006...
x Battle of Haifa Street A US Sniper with the 3-2SBCT prepares to fire on insurgent forces, January 24, 2007 United States of America Baghdad  
The Battle of Haifa Street was a battle fought during January 2007 for the control of Haifa Street, a two-mile-long street in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, pitting American and Iraqi Army forces against various Sunni insurgent forces between January 6 and...
Iraqi insurgency Iraq
x 2007 Baghdad crackdown Army Poland Baghdad David Petraeus
Operation Imposing Law, also known as Operation Law and Order (Arabic: ‎ عملية القانون والنظام "'amaliat al-qaanoon wa an-nazaam), Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (Arabic: ‎فرض القانون or Baghdad Security Plan(BSP), was a joint Coalition-Iraqi security...
United States of America Iraq
Iraqi insurgency
x Operation Dragon Fire East   Iraq Baghdad  
Baghdad Soldiers and Iraqi Security Forces moved clearing operations into the East Rashid security district of southern Baghdad May 26, 2007, detaining three suspected insurgents and finding two weapons caches. The operation, known as Dragon Fire...
United States of America Iraq
x Operation Warrior's Rage   United States of America Baghdad  
Operation Warrior's Rage was a United States and Iraqi Army cordon-and-search operation during the US occupation of Iraq. The operation was performed on the evening of 15 July 2005. On the evening of 15 July 2005, elements of the 256th Brigade...
Iraqi insurgency
x Operation Tiger Hammer   United States of America Baghdad  
Operation Tiger Hammer was part of the Iraq War that began in 2003. Iraqi Army soldiers conducted a battalion-sized cordon and search operation in the Adhamiyah District of the Iraqi capital June 7. The combined mission, dubbed Operation Tiger...
Iraqi insurgency Iraq
x Operation Able Warrior   United States of America Baghdad  
Operation Able Warrior was conducted by Task Force Baghdad soldiers in the early-morning hours of August 4, 2005 to defeat terror cells operating west of the Baghdad International Airport. The mission of Operation Able Warrior was to disrupt car...
Iraqi insurgency
x Operation Crazyhorse Thunder     Baghdad  
Seven suspects were detained for allegedly planting improvised explosive devices along Route Tampa, the highway leading into Baghdad, June 23. Troop C, 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division targeted an...
Iraq
x Operation Stampede 3   Iraq Baghdad  
Operation Stampede 3 was a U.S. military operation conducted in Baghdad, Iraq, in July 2007 to try and correct the security situation. During Operation Stampede 3, which was conducted by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, two large caches of ordnance were...
United States of America Iraq
x Operation Marne Avalanche   Iraqi insurgency Baghdad  
Operation Marne Avalanche was a US military operation that occurred in southern Baghdad in July 2007 as part of Operation Phantom Thunder. The goal of the offensive operation was to stop southern Baghdad from being used as a safe haven and to...
Iraq
x Operation Purple Haze   United States of America Baghdad David Petraeus
Baghdad Soldiers, working together with Iraqi Army troops, discovered two caches totaling approximately 700 lbs. of homemade explosives in the early morning hours of July 15, 2007 in Operation Purple Haze. The 3rd Battalion, 5th Brigade, 6th Iraqi...
Iraqi insurgency Iraq
x Siege of Baghdad   Zengid dynasty Baghdad    
Abbasid Caliphate
x Siege of Baghdad Shatranj   Baghdad  
The siege of Baghdad was a part of a civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad. The siege lasted from August 812 until September 813. The siege is described in great detail by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari in his...
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