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Operation Restore Hope
Part of the Somali Civil War
Date5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993
(6 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Somalia
UN Charter
Chapter VII
UN Resolution
794, 837
Result

United Nations operational success [1]

Somali National Alliance political victory
Participants
Unified Task Force UNITAF
    • Unified Task Force Australia
    • Unified Task Force Bangladesh
    • Unified Task Force Belgium
    • Unified Task Force Botswana
    • Unified Task Force Canada
    • Unified Task Force Egypt
    • Unified Task Force Ethiopia
    • Unified Task Force France
    • Unified Task Force Germany
    • Unified Task Force Greece
    • Unified Task Force India
    • Unified Task Force Indonesia
    • Unified Task Force Italy
    • Unified Task Force Kuwait
    • Unified Task Force Malaysia
    • Unified Task Force Morocco
    • Unified Task Force New Zealand
    • Unified Task Force Nigeria
    • Unified Task Force Norway
    • Unified Task Force Pakistan
    • Unified Task Force Saudi Arabia
    • Unified Task Force Spain
    • Unified Task Force Tunisia
    • Unified Task Force Turkey
    • Unified Task Force UAE
    • Unified Task Force United Kingdom
    • Unified Task Force United States
    • Unified Task Force Zimbabwe
Somali National Alliance
Commanders and leaders
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • Robert B. Johnston
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Casualties and losses
82 killed
    • Unified Task Force 43 killed
    • Unified Task Force 24 killed
    • Unified Task Force 6 killed
    • Unified Task Force 3 killed
    • Unified Task Force 3 killed
    • Unified Task Force 1 killed
    • Unified Task Force 1 killed[2]
    • Unified Task Force 1 killed

~300 wounded
    • Unified Task Force 153 wounded[3]
    • Unified Task Force 75+ wounded
    • Unified Task Force 36 wounded
    • Unified Task Force 23 wounded
    • Unified Task Force 3 wounded
    • Unified Task Force 2+ wounded
    • Unified Task Force 4 wounded
Several thousand both civilians and military insurgents (per Aidid)

The Unified Task Force (UNITAF) was a United States-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia from 5 December 1992 until 4 May 1993. A United States initiative (code-named Operation Restore Hope), UNITAF was charged with carrying out United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 to create a protected environment for conducting humanitarian operations in the southern half of the country.

  1. ^ https://www.history.army.mil/brochures/somalia/somalia.htm
  2. ^ "United Nations Operation in Somalia UNSOM 1992". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
  3. ^ "American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics" (PDF). Fas.org. Retrieved 4 October 2018.

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