June 2003 counterinsurgency operation during the Iraq War
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Operation Peninsula Strike" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Operation Peninsula Strike
Part of The War on Terrorism, Iraq War
Date
9 June 2003 – 13 June 2003
Location
Balad, Iraq
Result
Capture of Ba'ath Party Officials; failure to suppress early insurgency
Belligerents
United States
Iraqi Insurgents
Commanders and leaders
Unknown
Casualties and losses
4 wounded
27 Killed
320[1]–397 captured
None Reported
v
t
e
Iraq War (Outline)
Timeline
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Invasion (2003)
Umm Qasr
Al Faw
1st Basra
Nasiriyah
Raid on Karbala
Haditha Dam
1st Najaf
Northern Delay
Viking Hammer
Samawah
1st Karbala
Al Kut
Hillah
Green Line
Karbala Gap
Debecka Pass
Kani Domlan Ridge
Baghdad
Post-invasion insurgency (2003–2006)
Al Anbar
Killing of Qusay & Uday Hussein
1st Ramadan
Latifiya
Capture of Saddam Hussein
Spring 2004
City Hall
Al Kut
1st Fallujah
Sadr City
1st Ramadi
Good Friday
Husaybah
Danny Boy
2nd Najaf
CIMIC-House
Samarra
2nd Fallujah
Mosul
Lake Tharthar
Al Qa'im
Hit
Haditha
Steel Curtain
Tal Afar
2nd Ramadi
Together Forward
Diwaniya
Civil war (2006–2008)
2nd Ramadan
Sinbad
Amarah
Turki
Diyala
Haifa Street
Karbala Raid
3rd Najaf
Imposing Law
U.K. bases
Black Eagle
Baghdad belts
Baqubah
Donkey Island
Shurta Nasir
Phantom Strike
2nd Karbala
Phantom Phoenix
Insurgency (2008–2011)
2008 Day of Ashura
Nineveh
Spring 2008
2nd Basra
2008 al-Qaeda Offensive
Augurs of Prosperity
Abu Kamal
Palm Grove
Camp Ashraf
US withdrawal violence
v
t
e
List of bombings during the Iraq War
‡indicates attacks resulting in over 100 deaths § indicates the deadliest attack in the Iraq War This list only includes major attacks.
2003
1st Baghdad
2nd Baghdad
Najaf
3rd Baghdad
1st Nasiriyah
1st Karbala
2004
‡ 1st Erbil
‡ Ashoura
1st Basra
1st Mosul
4th Baghdad
5th Baghdad
Karbala & Najaf
1st Baqubah
Kufa
Marez
2005
Suwaira bombing
‡ 1st Al Hillah
2nd Erbil
‡ Musayyib
6th Baghdad
‡ 7th Baghdad
1st Balad
Khanaqin
2006
‡ Karbala-Ramadi
1st Samarra
8th Baghdad
9th Baghdad
‡ 10th Baghdad
2007
11th Baghdad
12th Baghdad
‡ 13th Baghdad
14th Baghdad
15th Baghdad
‡ 2nd Al Hillah
‡ 1st Tal Afar
16th Baghdad
17th Baghdad
2nd & 3rd Karbala
2nd Mosul
‡ 18th Baghdad
Makhmour
Abu Sayda
2nd Samarra
19th Baghdad
‡ Amirli
1st Kirkuk
20th Baghdad
21st Baghdad
§ Qahtaniya
Amarah
2008
22nd Baghdad
2nd Balad
23rd Baghdad
4th Karbala
24th Baghdad
Karmah
2nd Baqubah
Dujail
Balad Ruz
2009
25th Baghdad
26th Baghdad
Baghdad-Muqdadiyah
Taza
27th Baghdad
2nd Kirkuk
2nd Tal Afar
‡ 28th Baghdad
‡ 29th Baghdad
‡ 30th Baghdad
2010
31st Baghdad
32nd Baghdad
3rd Baqubah
33rd Baghdad
34th Baghdad
35th Baghdad
‡ 1st Pan-Iraq
36th Baghdad
37th Baghdad
2nd Pan-Iraq
38th Baghdad
39th Baghdad
‡ 40th Baghdad
2011
41st Baghdad
‡ 3rd Pan-Iraq
Karbala-Baghdad
42nd Baghdad
Tikrit
3rd Al Hillah
3rd Samarra
Al Diwaniyah
Taji
4th Pan-Iraq
43rd Baghdad
4th Karbala
44th Baghdad
2nd Basra
45th Baghdad
Operation Peninsula Strike was a series of raids conducted by American troops from 9 to 13 June 2003 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, carried out by members of Task Force Ironhorse on a peninsula alongside the Tigris River near Balad, Iraq. In the operation US forces sought to target members of the Ba'ath Party, paramilitary, and subversive units. Specifically, US Forces were to hit five objectives simultaneously, detain the targets and screen them for intelligence.
^Nance, Malcolm W., The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014, CRC Press, 2014 ISBN 1498706894 ISBN 978-1498706896
and 19 Related for: Operation Peninsula Strike information
OperationPeninsulaStrike was a series of raids conducted by American troops from 9 to 13 June 2003 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, carried out by...
May 2003. OperationPeninsulaStrike was a 4th Infantry Division operation and was directly influenced by earlier warning orders of Operation Desert Scorpion...
The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia Landing Operation (Russian: Керченско-Феодосийская десантная операция...
the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008. "OperationPeninsulaStrike". globalsecurity.org. Archived from the original on 13 February...
Operation Vulcan (22 April – 6 May 1943) and OperationStrike (6–12 May 1943) were the final ground attacks by the Allied forces against the Italian and...
personnel. The largest of these new operations were Operations Law and Order, Phantom Thunder and Phantom Strike. Iraq portal Casualties of the Iraq War...
launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, beginning the Six-Day War. Within three days, Israel had occupied most of the Sinai Peninsula. Following the Israeli...
forward-deployed expeditionary strike group. It is based at the White Beach Naval Facility at the end of the Katsuren Peninsula in Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan...
Operation Phantom Strike was a major offensive launched by the Multi-National Corps – Iraq on 15 August 2007 in a crackdown to disrupt both the al-Qaeda-affiliated...
and imminent threat to the American people." The strike on 28 Oct was the first known American operation resulting in death since that policy was announced...
at sea. Carrier Strike Group One was the second U.S. Navy carrier force to participate in Operation Inherent Resolve. Carrier Strike Group 1 traces its...
Sevastopol, Crimea. The strike was part of the war resulting from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and was referred to as Operation Crab Trap (Ukrainian:...
authorities usually define these killings as 'targeted killings'. Drone strike Assassination and targeted killing by the CIA List of assassinations List...
major Soviet Pacific Fleet naval base at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Soviet Pacific Fleet's mainland headquarters at Vladivostok.: 172 ...
of Mosul is an operation that is an order of magnitude larger and more complex than" previous operations, adding that proposed strikes are reviewed using...
2009. Along with deployments in Operation Desert Strike, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation Enduring Freedom, Carl Vinson...
Operation Hudson Harbor was a United States Air Force Nuclear Strike training operation against North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union during the Korean...
coast of the Noto Peninsula] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Coast Guard. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024. "Massive earthquake strikes Japan, major tsunami...
Global Information
United States