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–)
Battle of Dvin
(1040)
 Kurdistan Byzantine Empire

Armenian Empire

Victory
  • The Kurds from dvin get their liberty
Rawandiz Revolt
(1834)
 Kurdistan Soran Emirate  Ottoman Empire

Bohtan

Victory
  • Mir Muhammad Pasha of Rawandiz resumes his project of Unification of Kurdistan
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts
(1919–1924)
Kingdom of Kurdistan  United Kingdom
Kingdom of Iraq Mandatory Iraq
Defeat
  • Fall of the Kingdom of Kurdistan[1]
First Barzani Revolt
(1931–1932)
Barzani Kurds  United Kingdom
Kingdom of Iraq Mandatory Iraq
Defeat
  • Uprising quelled
Not applicable
Second Barzani Revolt
(1943–1945)
Barzani Kurds Kingdom of Iraq Iraq Defeat
  • Uprising quelled
Battle of Qahrawa
Republic of Mehabad Iran victory
Battle of Nalos (1947)
Peshmerga Iran victory
First Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1961–1970)
KDP Iraq Iraq
 Syria
Kurdish Victory
Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1974–1975)
KDP
 Iran
Iraq Iraq Defeat
  • Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan
Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
(1983–1989)
KDP
PUK
 Iran
Iraq Iraq
Defeat
Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict
(1983–present)
Kurdistan Region Kurdistan Region

KCK

PUK (sometimes)

Ongoing
  • PKK and allied groups lose most land and begin low-level insurgency
Battle of Sulaymaniyah
(1991)
 Kurdistan Region

Iraq Iraq

Victory
  • Iraq lost and Kurdistan region take Sulaymaniyah
Kurdish National Uprising
(1991)
KDP
PUK
Iraq Iraq Victory
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
(1994–1997)
KDP
Iraq Iraq
 Turkey
PDKI
PUK
 Iran
PKK
Badr Brigades
Ceasefire
  • Peace treaty between the KDP and the PUK
Masoud Barzani
(KDP-controlled part)
Jalal Talabani
(PUK-controlled part)
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict
(2001–2004)
Kurdistan Region Kurdistan Region Ansar al-Islam
al-Qaeda
Victory
  • Islamists flee south
Iraq War
(2003–2011)
 Iraq
Kurdistan Region
MNF–I
Iraq SCJL
Iraq Naqshbandi Army
Iraq 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

 Syria
Hezbollah

ISIL
Ansar al-Islam
Iraq SCJL
Iraq 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
Kirkuk Crisis
(2017)
 Kurdistan Region  Iraq Deafeat
  • Iraq retakes disputed territories

References

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