This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Iraq and its predecessor states.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | Iraqi losses | Head of State | Prime Minister | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Military | Civilians | ||||||
Mesopotamian Campaign (1914–1918 WWI) |
Ottoman Empire
|
United Kingdom
|
Defeat
|
~89,500 | ~35,500 | Mehmed VI (Ottoman rule) | Ahmet Tevfik Pasha (Ottoman rule) |
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts (1919–1924) | United Kingdom
|
Kingdom of Kurdistan
Kurdish Tribesmen |
Government victory
|
? | ? | Before 1920: Sir Percy Cox
(British High Commissioner) After 1920: King Faisal I |
Before 1920: Sir Percy Cox
(British High Commissioner) After 1920: Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani |
Great Iraqi Revolution (1920) |
Iraqi Rebels | United Kingdom
|
Defeat
|
6,000–10,000 | 2,050–4,000 | None | |
Ikhwan revolt (1927-1930) | United Kingdom
|
Ikhwan | Coalition Victory | 2,000 killed in total | Faisal I of Iraq | Faisal bin Sultan | |
Yazidi Revolt (1935) | Kingdom of Iraq | Yazidi Tribesmen | Government victory
|
? | ? | Ghazi of Iraq | Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi |
Iraqi Shia Revolts (1935–1936) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Shia Tribesmen | Government victory
|
~500 | |||
Iraqi Coup D'état (1941) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Golden Square Rebels | Government defeat
|
? | Faisal II of Iraq | Taha al-Hashimi | |
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941 WWII) |
Kingdom of Iraq (Golden Square) Germany Italy |
United Kingdom India Iraq Levies Royalists Transjordan Australia New Zealand Greece |
Defeat
|
~500 | ? | Sherif Sharaf | Rashid Ali al-Gaylani |
Barzani Revolt (1943–1945) |
Kingdom of Iraq | Barzani Kurds | Government victory
|
? | Faisal II of Iraq | Nuri al-Said | |
Al-Wathbah Uprising (1948) | Kingdom of Iraq | Communists | Government victory
|
300–400 | Mohammad Hassan al-Sadr | ||
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) |
Egypt Kingdom of Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia Yemen HWA ALA |
Israel | Defeat
|
? | None | Muzahim al-Pachachi | |
14 July Revolution (1958) |
Hashemite Arab Federation
Support: Hashemite Arab Federation
|
Free Officers | Defeat
|
~100 | Nuri al-Said | ||
Mosul Uprising (1959) |
Iraqi Republic | Arab Nationalists | Government victory
|
2,426 | Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i | Abd al-Karim Qasim | |
First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) |
Iraqi Republic Syria → Syria |
KDP | Stalemate
|
~10,000 | ? | ||
Ramadan Revolution (1963) |
Iraqi Republic | Arab Nationalists
|
Government defeat
|
100 | |||
Ar-Rashid Revolt (1963) | Iraqi Republic | Communists | Government victory
|
1+ | Abdul Salam Arif | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr | |
November coup d'état (1963) | Iraqi Republic | Nasserists | Nasserist victory
|
250 | |||
Six-Day War (1967) |
United Arab Republic Syria Jordan Iraqi Republic Lebanon |
Israel | Defeat
|
10 | None | Abdul Rahman Arif | Abdul Rahman Arif |
October War (1973) |
Egypt Syria Ba'athist Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba |
Israel | Defeat[1]
|
278 | None | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr |
Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) |
Ba'athist Iraq | KDP Iran |
Government victory[3]
|
7,000 | ? | ||
Arvand Conflict (1974–1975) |
Iraq | Iran | Defeat
|
Saddam Hussein | Saddam Hussein | ||
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) |
Iraq MEK DRFLA Sudan |
Iran KDP PUK Badr Brigades |
Stalemate
|
105,000 375,000 |
~100,000 | ||
Invasion of Kuwait (1990) | Iraq | Kuwait | Victory
|
295+ | None | ||
Gulf War (1990–1991) |
→ Iraq | Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Oman United Arab Emirates Qatar Italy Australia |
Defeat
|
20,000–35,000 | 3,664 | ||
1991 Iraqi uprisings (1991) |
Iraq |
Badr Brigades Dawa |
Government victory (Southern front)
|
~5,000 | 80,000–230,000 | ||
KDP PUK |
Government defeat (Northern front)
| ||||||
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1995–1996) |
KDP Iraq KDPI |
PUK United States |
Stalemate
|
? | |||
Bombing of Iraq (1998) |
Iraq | United States United Kingdom |
Defeat
|
1,400[4](KIA or WIA) | ? | ||
Second Sadr Uprising (1999) |
Iraq | Badr Brigades Dawa |
Government victory
|
40+ | 200+[5] | ||
Iraq War (2003–2011) |
Iraq | United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga |
Defeat (Phase 1)
|
7,600–10,800 | 151,000–1,033,000+ | ||
→ Iraq Peshmerga MNF–I
|
SCJL Naqshbandi Army Free Iraqi Army al-Qaeda ISI Ansar al-Islam IAI Mahdi Army Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah |
Government victory (Phase 2)
|
17,690 | Jalal Talabani | Nouri al-Maliki | ||
War in Iraq (2013–2017) |
Iraq Peshmerga Sinjar Alliance CJTF–OIR
Iran |
ISIL Ansar al-Islam SCJL Naqshbandi Army Mujahideen Army |
Government victory
|
25,000+ | 67,000+ | Fuad Masum | Haider al-Abadi |
2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (2017) |
Iraq | Peshmerga | Victory
|
None | None | ||
Iraqi Insurgency (2017–present) |
Iraq | Naqshbandi Army ISIL |
Ongoing | 2,254+ | None | ||
Syrian civil war (2017–2019) |
|
ISIL | Victory
|
None | None | Barham Salih | Adil Abdul-Mahdi |