List of wars involving Iraqi Kurdistan

This is a list of wars that Iraqi Kurdistan has been involved in, since the establishment of Iraq in 1932.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
First Kurdish–Iraqi War
(19611970)
KDP Iraq Iraq
 Syria
Stalemate
Second Kurdish–Iraqi War
(19741975)
KDP Iraq Iraq Defeat
  • Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan.
Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
(19831989)

PUK
 Iran
Iraq Iraq
MEK
Defeat
Kurdish National Uprising
(1991)
KDP
PUK
Iraq Iraq Victory
Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
(19941997)
KDP
Iraq Iraq
 Turkey
PDKI
PUK
INC
PKK
Badr Brigades
Peace agreement
  • Ceasefire, Iraqi withdrawal form Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • Creation of two Kurdish regional governments, one in Sulaymaniyah and one in Arbil.
Kurdistan Islamist Conflict
(20012004)
KDP
PUK
Ansar al-Islam
Al-Qaeda
Victory
Iraq War
(20032011)
MNFI

 Iraq (2003)
KDP
PUK

Iraq Iraq (2003)
Iraq SCJL
Iraq Naqshbandi Army
ISI

IAI


Mahdi Army
Special Groups
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah

Victory
Spillover of the Syrian Civil War
(2014present)
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