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The following is a timeline of Kurdish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Kurdistan and its predecessor states and entities. To read about the background to these events, see History of the Kurds .
First Iraqi–Kurdish War [18] or Barzani Rebellion was a major event of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, lasting from 1961 to 1970. The struggle was led by Mustafa Barzani in an attempt to establish an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Throughout the 1960s the uprising escalated into a long war, which failed to resolve despite internal ...
Kurdish–Turkish conflict: Republic of Turkey: Ongoing 19 April 2016 – present Western Iran clashes Iran: Ongoing 24 August 2016 – present Turkish military intervention in Syria Syria: Ongoing 15 – 27 October 2017 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan: Ceasefire, Iraqi Kurdistan loses territory, including Sinjar and Kirkuk
The 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict occurred in and around the Kurdish region of northern Iraq that began on 15 October 2017, shortly after the independence referendum was held on September 25. After the independence referendum, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi demanded the referendum to be canceled. In October, the Iraqi military moved into the ...
The PUK insurgency was a low-level rebellion of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) against Baathist Iraq from 1975 to 1979, following the defeat of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War, which forced that organization to declare a ceasefire and move into exile in Iran.
In the first battle of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Operation Viking Hammer was launched, and the Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan dissolved. After the offensive, most of the Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan officials were exiled to Iran. Ansar al-Islam moved southwards to participate in the Iraqi insurgency and, after it was quelled, the Syrian civil war.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Appearance. ... Second Iraqi–Kurdish War; 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict.
The Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (Kurdish: شەڕی براکوژی, romanized: Şerî birakujî, 'fratricidal war') was a civil war that took place between rival Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan during the mid-1990s, mostly between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.