List of wars involving Kurdistan Region explained

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 ResultsKing (1922–1924)
President (1992–)
Battle of Dvin
(1040)
Byzantine EmpireArmenian EmpireVictory
  • The Kurds from dvin get their liberty
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts
(1919–1924)
Kingdom of Kurdistan United Kingdom
Mandatory Iraq
Defeat
  • Fall of the Kingdom of Kurdistan[1]
First Barzani Revolt
(1931–1932)
Barzani Kurds United Kingdom
Mandatory Iraq
Defeat
  • Uprising quelled
Second Barzani Revolt
(1943–1945)
Barzani Kurds IraqDefeat
  • Uprising quelled
Battle of Qahrawa
Republic of Mehabad Iranvictory
Battle of Nalos (1947)
Peshmarge Iranvictory
First Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1961–1970)
KDP Iraq
Kurdish Victory
Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1974–1975)
KDP
IraqDefeat
  • Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan
Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
(1983–1989)
KDP
PUK
Iraq
Defeat
Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict
(1983–present)
Kurdistan Region
  • 25px KDP
  • 25px PUK (sometimes)
KCK

25px PUK (sometimes)

Ongoing
  • PKK and allied groups lose most land and begin low-level insurgency
Battle of Sulaymaniyah
(1991)
IraqVictory
  • Iraq lost and Kurdistan region take Sulaymaniyah
Kurdish National Uprising
(1991)
KDP
PUK
IraqVictory
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
(1994–1997)
KDP
Iraq
Turkey
PDKI
PUK

PKK
Badr Brigades
Ceasefire
  • Peace treaty between the KDP and the PUK
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict
(2001–2004)
Kurdistan Region 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
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Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Victory
Iraqi Civil War
(2014–2017)
Iraq

CJTF–OIR

Sinjar Alliance
NPU


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
Kirkuk Crisis
(2017)
IraqDeafeat
  • Iraq retakes disputed territories

Notes and References

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