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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
May 1994 PUK–KDP clashes was the first outbreak of violence of the 1994–97 Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, fought in Iraqi Kurdistan between the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdish factions. The clashes left around 300 people dead. [2]
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.
2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict ends. Massoud Barzani resigns from post of President of Iraqi Kurdistan; Kurdistan Regional Government accepts the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq's opposition towards independence; Kurdish authorities agree to hand over control of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports to the federal government.
The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, followed by the War in Iraq, an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State. The most recent conflict is the ongoing Islamic State insurgency. [4]
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.
The Kurdish-Turkish conflict spilled over into Iraqi Kurdistan in 1983, [8] and has continued there intermittently since. The Turkish Armed Forces has launched a series of operations in Northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). [9] More than 37,000 people have been killed in the conflict since 1984. [10]