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Iraq
Iraq (pronounced /ɪˈræk/ or /ɪˈrɑːk/, Arabic: العراق Al-Irāq), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: جمهورية العراق (help·info) Jumhūrīyat Al-Irāq, Kurdish: كماری عراق, Komara Îraqê, Assyrian: ܥܝܪܐܩ) is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain...
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Gulf War
The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), also known as the First Gulf War, the Second Gulf War, by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as The Mother of all Battles, and commonly as Desert Storm for the military response, was the final conflict,...
War on Terrorism
The War on Terrorism or War on Terror is the common term for what the George W. Bush administration perceived or presented as the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism, Islamic militants and the regimes and...
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq, (from March 20 to May 1, 2003) was led by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Denmark, Poland and Spain. Four countries participated with troops during the initial invasion...
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967 was a war between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Arab states of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria also contributed troops and arms. At the war's end, Israel...
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים; transliterated: Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור, Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر; transliterated: ħarb October or حرب تشرين, ħarb Tishrin), also known as...
1948 Arab-Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known by Israelis as the War of Independence (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות, Milhemet HaAtzma'ut) or War of Liberation (Hebrew: מלחמת השחרור, Milhemet HaShachrur) and by the Arabs as the Catastrophe (Arabic: النكبة, al-Nakba),...
Iraq War
The Iraq War, also known as the Occupation of Iraq, The Second Gulf War or Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United...
Operation Desert Fox
The December 1998 bombing of Iraq (code-named Operation Desert Fox) was a major four-day bombing campaign on Iraqi targets from December 16–19, 1998 by the United States and United Kingdom. These strikes were officially undertaken in response to...
Iran-Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the Imposed War (جنگ تحمیلی, Jang-e-tahmīlī) and Holy Defense (دفاع مقدس, Defā'-e-moghaddas) in Iran, and Saddām's Qādisiyyah (قادسيّة صدّام, Qādisiyyat Ṣaddām) in Iraq, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and...
Operation Provide Comfort
Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations by the United States and some of its Gulf War allies, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurds fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War and...
Operation Southern Focus
Operation Southern Focus was a period in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq (called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in the United States) in which the military responses to violations of the southern Iraqi no-fly zones were increased, with...
Al-Anfal Campaign
The al-Anfal Campaign (Arabic: حملة الأنفال), also known as Operation Anfal, was a campaign against the Kurdish population of Iraq led by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid. The campaign takes its name from Surat...
Highway of Death
The Highway of Death refers to a road between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border towns of Abdali (Kuwait) and Safwan and then on to Basra.
During the United Nations Coalition offensive in the Gulf...
Operation Planet X
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Planet X was a US Army mechanized raid conducted on a village near Ad Dawr and Al Dur, 11 miles (18 km) north of Tikrit on the night of 15 May 2003 by elements of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, U.S. 4th...
Operation Bayonet Lightning
Operation Bayonet Lightning was a military operation in Iraq designed to capture weapons, materials, and people that posed a threat against Coalition Forces. The joint operation, lasting about 16 hours, was conducted on December 2, 2003 by 1200...
Battle of Khafji
The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War. It took place in and around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from 29 January to 1 February 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition's air campaign over Kuwait and...
Invasion of Kuwait
The Invasion of Kuwait, also known as the Iraq-Kuwait War and perhaps more appropriately as the Iraqi abolition of Kuwait, was a major conflict between the Republic of Iraq and the State of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month long Iraqi...
Operation Desert Strike
The 1996 cruise missile strikes on Iraq occurred in September 1996 during the Kurdish Civil War. On August 31, 1996, the Iraqi military launched its biggest offensive since 1991 against the city of Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. This attack stoked...
Operation Desert Thunder
Operation Desert Thunder was a response to threats by Iraq's president Saddam Hussein to shoot down U-2 spy planes, and violate the no-fly zone set up over his country. The operation was designed to bring stability to the region by bringing in a...
Operation Northern Watch
Operation Northern Watch, the successor to Operation Provide Comfort, was a US European Command Combined Task Force (CTF) charged with enforcing its own no-fly zone above the 36th parallel in Iraq. Its mission began on 1 January 1997.
The coalition...
Operation Southern Watch
Operation Southern Watch was an operation conducted by Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) with the mission of monitoring and controlling airspace south of the 32nd Parallel (extended to the 33rd Parallel in 1996) in Iraq, following the 1991...
Battle of Umm Qasr
The Battle of Umm Qasr was the first military confrontation in the Iraq War. At the start of the war one of the first objectives was the port of Umm Qasr. On March 21, 2003, allied forces advanced across Southern Iraq and US marines captured the new...
Battle of Phase Line Bullet
The Battle of Phase Line Bullet was one of the clashes which led to the destruction of the Tawakalna Iraqi Republican Guard Division, on February 26, 1991, by a simultaneous attack of two US Armored Divisions (1st and 3rd), an Infantry Division (the...
Operation Vigilant Sentinel
Operation Vigilant Sentinel was a response to Saddam Hussein advance of its military forces on the border with Kuwait. The United States deployed the 74th Air Control Squadron to Kuwait on August 24, 1995. The specific battle management functions...
Battle of the Marshes
The Battle of the Marshes was a part of the Iran–Iraq War.
After the unsuccessful Operation Dawn V, Iran opened a new offensive in the lakes of the Hawizeh Marsh in Iraqi Tigris-Euphrates river system.
After heavy losses at the beginning due to...
Operation Dawn-4
Operation Valfajr-4 ( Dawn 4) was an Iranian operation of the Iran-Iraq War launched in 1983. At the end of the operation Iran had captured a small amount of territory from the Iraqis.
Units of Iraq's First Army Corps spent two months in their...
Operation Able Rising Force
Operation Able Rising Force netted additional detainees, for a total of 52 detainees in police custody, including the seven reported Dec. 8 2006.
The operation was a combined effort between Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army...
Operation Forsythe Park
On Wednesday 5 May 2007 in Ramadi, Iraq, approximately 450 Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces completed Operation Forsythe Park in Albu Bali, located 15 kilometers northeast of Ramadi.
Al Anbar Provincial Security Force 2, Iraqi Army demolition...
Operation Valiant Guardian
Operation Valiant Guardian began in 2007 and was part of the Iraq War.
From CAMP RIPPER, AL ASAD, Iraq – Regimental Combat Team 2 and elements of the Iraqi Army’s 7th Division completed Operation Harris Ba’sil after eight weeks of interdicting and...
Operation Dragon Fire East
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...
Operation Ardennes
Operation Ardennes was part of the Iraq War which began in 2003.
Iraqi Security Forces and Fort Richardson Paratroopers conducted a joint raid in Muwayllihah, Iraq, to deny insurgents refuge and prevent them from emplacing improvised explosive...
Operation Kheibar
Operation Kheibar was an Iranian offensive in the Iran-Iraq War. This operation was part of the Battle of the Marshes.
After the unsuccessful Operation Dawn V in southern Iraq, Iran opened a new front at the lakes of the Hawizeh Marshes. 250,000...
Operation Four Brothers
Operation Four Brothers was a military operation conducted in Arab Jabour, Iraq in July 2007 to try and correct the security situation.
During Operation Four Brothers paratroopers from Bravo Troop, 1st Battalion, 40th Cavalry Regiment, from Fort...
Operation Stampede 3
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...
Operation Saber Guardian
Operation Saber Guardian was a joint operation between 3rd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army soldiers, local concerned citizens, and 6-9 Armored Reconnaissance Squadron, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. The operation, targeted at...
Battle of Basra
The Battle of Basra (March–April 2003) was one of the first battles of the invasion of Iraq. It pitched British and Iraqi forces.
The British 7 Armoured Brigade ('The Desert Rats') fought their way into Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, on 6 April,...
2008 Iraqi Day of Ashura fighting
The 2008 Iraqi Day of Ashura fighting was a series of clashes that occurred on the Islamic holy day of Ashura on January 18, 2008 and the next day in the Iraqi cities of Basra and Nasiriyah. The battles were fought between the Iraqi security forces...
Battle of Basra
The Battle of Basra began on March 25, 2008, when the Iraqi Army launched an operation (code-named Saulat al-Fursan, meaning Operation Charge of the Knights in Arabic) to drive the Mahdi Army militia out of the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The...
Siege of Sadr City
The Siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by U.S. and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began in April 2004...
Bombing of Iraq
The bombing of Iraq in June 1993 was ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton after an attempted assassination by Iraqi agents on former president of the United States George H.W. Bush while on a visit to Kuwait.
24 cruise missiles hit Baghdad between...
Battle of Al Faw
The Battle Of Al Faw was one of the first battles of the Iraq War. One of the initial objectives of the Coalition campaign in Iraq was to capture the oil industry in the Al-Faw Peninsula intact before it could be sabotaged or destroyed by the Iraqi...
Battle of Samawah
The Battle of Samawah took place during the 2003 invasion of Iraq as American troops fought to clear the city of Iraqi forces. The city had been bypassed during the advance on Baghdad, leaving the task of clearing it to American paratroopers of the...
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
The Iraqi Kurdish Civil War was a military conflict which took place between rival Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan in the mid 1990s. Over the course of the conflict, Kurdish factions from Iran and Turkey, as well as Iranian, Iraqi, American and...
Battle of the Karbala Gap
The Battle of the Karbala Gap occurred during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Karbala Gap is a 20-25-mile wide strip of land with the Euphrates River to the east and Lake Razazah to the west. This strip of land was recognized by Iraqi commanders as a...
Battle of Samarra
The Battle of Samarra, also called Operation Baton Rouge, took place in 2004 during the Iraq War. The city of Samarra in central Iraq had fallen under the control of insurgents shortly after insurgents had seized control of Fallujah and Ramadi. In...
Jordanian campaign
The Jordanian campaign of 1967 was part of the broader Six-Day War, in which Israel inflicted a devastating defeat on Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. For Israel, it was the most significant part of the war, as it captured many important Jewish...
Battle of 73 Easting
The Battle of 73 Easting was a decisive tank battle fought on 26 February 1991, during the Gulf War, between British-American armoured forces and those of the Iraqi Republican Guard. The battle took place about 50 miles (80 km) east of, and several...
Iraqi no-fly zones
The Iraqi no-fly zones were a set of two separate no-fly zones (NFZs), and were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south...
2006 Ramadan Offensive
The 2006 Ramadan Offensive refers to the attacks mounted by insurgents in Iraq during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in 2006, three years after the original Ramadan Offensive.
Among the targets were U.S., Iraqi and other Coalition military targets...
Operation Iron Hammer
Operation Iron Hammer, also called Operation Matraqa Hadidia, was a military undertaking by the United States Armed Forces, and the New Iraqi Army, which was conducted east of Hīt, Iraq, from November 30, to December 3, 2005, during the Iraq War,...
Operation Airone
Operation Airone
Battle of Wadi Al-Batin
The Feint up the Wadi Al-Batin or Battle of Ruqi Pocket took place before the beginning of the Desert Storm operations on 16 February 1991. This is not to be confused with the "Battle of Wadi Al-Batin" which was fought later in the four-day ground...
Battle of Debecka Pass
The Battle of Debecka Pass, sometimes known as the Battle of Debecka Ridge, or otherwise referred to as the Alamo of the Iraq War , was a successful operation launched by U.S. Special Forces to secure a major crossroads near the village of Debecka,...
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict
The Iraqi Kurdish Islamist Conflict was a military conflict between the Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam and the Kurdish factions which controlled northern Iraq which began in 2001. The conflict merged with the larger 2003 invasion of Iraq,...
Operation Phantom Fury
The Second Battle of Fallujah — code-names Operation Al-Fajr (Arabic, "the dawn") and Operation Phantom Fury — was a joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive in November and December 2004. It was led by the U.S. Marine Corps against the Iraqi insurgency...
Battle of Nasiriyah
The Battle of Nasiriyah was one of the first major battles of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Heavy fighting took place in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah between Iraqi forces and U.S. Marines over control of key bridges over the Euphrates River and...
Battle of Amarah
The Battle of Amarah took place from October 19 to October 20, 2006 between the Mahdi Army and police, who were largely members of the Badr Organization.
The city of Amarah was said to have been relatively peaceful during the war, though two...
Battle of Karbala
The Battle of Karbala began on the night of August 27, 2007 and involved fighting between the Mahdi Army, who provided security for the pilgrims, and police (who were largely members of the Badr Organization) in Karbala, Iraq.
Thousands of Shia...
Operation Phantom Phoenix
Operation Phantom Phoenix is a major nation-wide offensive launched by the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) on January 8, 2008 in an attempt to build on the success of the two previous corps-level operations, Operation Phantom Thunder and Operation...
