List of wars involving Kurdistan Region

This is a list of wars that Kurds rebels and subsequently the autonomous Kurdistan Region has been involved in, since the establishment of Iraq in 1932.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results King (1922–1924)
President (1992–)
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts
(1919–1924)
Kingdom of Kurdistan  United Kingdom
Mandatory Iraq
Defeat
  • Fall of the Kingdom of Kurdistan[1]
Mahmud Barzanji
First Barzani Revolt
(1931–1932)
Barzani Kurds  United Kingdom
Mandatory Iraq
Defeat
  • Uprising quelled
Not applicable
Second Barzani Revolt
(1943–1945)
Barzani Kurds Iraq Defeat
  • Uprising quelled
First Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1961–1970)
KDP Iraq
 Syria
Stalemate
Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1974–1975)
KDP
 Iran
Iraq Defeat
  • Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan
Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
(1983–1989)
KDP
PUK
 Iran
Iraq
MEK
Defeat
Kurdish National Uprising
(1991)
KDP
PUK
Iraq Victory
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
(1994–1997)
KDP
Iraq
 Turkey
PDKI
PUK
 Iran
PKK
Badr Brigades
Peace treaty
  • KDP and PUK agree to share power
Masoud Barzani
(KDP-controlled part)
Jalal Talabani
(PUK-controlled part)
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict
(2001–2004)
Kurdistan Region
United States
Ansar al-Islam
al-Qaeda
Victory
  • Islamists flee south
Iraq War
(2003–2011)
 Iraq
Kurdistan Region
MNF–I
SCJL
Naqshbandi Army
Free Iraqi Army
al-Qaeda
ISI
Ansar al-Islam
IAI
Mahdi Army
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Victory
Iraqi Civil War
(2014–2017)
 Iraq
 Kurdistan Region
CJTF–OIR

Sinjar Alliance
NPU
 Iran
 Syria
Hezbollah

ISIL
Ansar al-Islam
SCJL
Naqshbandi Army
Mujahideen Army
Victory
  • Iraqi territorial integrity preserved
  • ISIL expelled from all strongholds in Iraq
  • ISIL genocides against Yazidis, Shias, and Christians in 2014
Masoud Barzani
Kirkuk Crisis
(2017)
 Kurdistan Region  Iraq Defeat
  • Iraq retakes disputed territories

References

  1. Prince, J. (1993), "A Kurdish State in Iraq" in Current History, January.
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