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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 ...
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.
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.
First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–1970) KDP: Iraq Syria: Kurdish Victory . Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement; Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–1975) KDP Iran: Iraq: Defeat. Iraq re-established control over Kurdistan; Kurdish Rebellion of 1983 (1983–1989) KDP PUK Iran: Iraq: Defeat. Al-Anfal Campaign; Kurdistan Region–PKK conflict (1983 ...
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.
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 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]
[53] [54] [55] The New York Times assessed that "the Iraq raids, which began late Friday and continued into Saturday, effectively ended an unstable two-year cease-fire between the Turkish government and the Kurdish militants, also known by the initials of their Kurdish name, PKK".