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–)
Mahmud Barzanji Revolts
(1919–1924)		 Kingdom of Kurdistan  United Kingdom
Kingdom of Iraq Mandatory Iraq		 Defeat
  • Fall of the Kingdom of Kurdistan[1]
Mahmud Barzanji
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
First Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1961–1970)		 KDP Iraq Iraq
 Syria		 Stalemate
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
MEK		 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
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
Masoud Barzani
Kirkuk Crisis
(2017)		  Kurdistan Region  Iraq  Syria  Turkey  Iran Deafeat
  • Iraq retakes disputed territories but Kurdistan get autonomy
 Kurdistan Region  Turkey  Iran Mahdi Army Victory
  • Kurdistan region Win

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References

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