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List of conflicts in Iraq

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An orthographic projection map detailing the present-day location and territorial extent of Iraq in Asia.

This is a list of conflicts in Iraq arranged chronologically from ancient to modern times. This list includes any raid, strike, skirmish, siege, sacking, and/or battle (land, naval, and air) that occurred on the territories of what may today be referred to as Iraq; however, in which the conflict itself may have only been part of an operation of a campaign in a theater of a greater war (e.g. any and/or all border, undeclared, colonial, proxy, liberation, global wars, etc.). There may also be periods of violent, civil unrest listed; such as, shootouts, spree killings, massacres, terrorist attacks, coups, assassinations, regicides, riots, rebellions, revolutions, and civil wars (as well as wars of succession and/or independence). The list might also contain episodes of human sacrifice, mass suicide, and ethnic cleansing/genocide.

Ancient times (c. 3300 BCE – c. 651 CE)

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Approximated dates Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious parties
(if applicable)
Defeated parties
(if applicable)
Early Dynastic period (c. 2900 – c. 2334 BCE)
c. 2600 BCE
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Sumer–Elam war
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c. 2600 BCE
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Siege of Uruk
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Part of Mesopotamia Early Dynastic Period wars
c. 2450 BCE
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Umma–Lagash war
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c. 2340 BCE
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Battle of Uruk
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Part of the Conquests of Sargon of Akkad
Neo-Assyrian period (c. 911 – c. 626 BCE)
693 BCE
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Battle of Diyala River
Part of the Campaigns of Sennacherib
689 BCE
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Siege of Babylon
Part of the Campaigns of Sennacherib
Neo-Babylonian period (c. 626 – c. 539 BCE)
626 BCE
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Revolt of Babylon
Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
616 BCE
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Battle of Arrapha
Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
614 BCE
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Fall of Assur
Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
612 BCE
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Battle of Nineveh
Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
Achaemenid period (c. 539 – c. 330 BCE)
September 539 BCE Battle of Opis
Part of the Persian conquest of Babylonia
1 October 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela
Part of the Wars of Alexander the Great
Hellenistic period (c. 330 – c. 31 BCE)
May–August 311 BCE First Siege of Babylon
Part of the Wars of the Diadochi and Babylonian War
311 BCE Battle of the Tigris
Part of the Wars of the Diadochi and Babylonian War
310 BCE Second Siege of Babylon
Part of the Wars of the Diadochi and Babylonian War
January–March 309 BCE Third Siege of Babylon
Part of the Wars of the Diadochi and Babylonian War
10 August 309 BCE Battle of the 25 of Abu
Part of the Wars of the Diadochi and Babylonian War
Roman period (c. 31 – c. 375 BCE)
198 CE Battle of Ctesiphon
Part of the Roman–Parthian Wars
217 CE Battle of Nisibis
Part of the Roman–Parthian Wars
243 CE Battle of Resaena
Part of the Roman–Persian Wars
Winter of 244 CE Battle of Misiche
Part of the Roman–Persian Wars
252 CE Battle of Barbalissos
Part of the Roman–Persian Wars
Spring 260 CE Battle of Edessa
Part of the Roman–Persian Wars

Medieval times (c. 651 – c. 1517 CE)

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Approximated dates Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious parties
(if applicable)
Defeated parties
(if applicable)
8 December 656 CE Battle of the Camel
Part of the First Islamic Civil War
17 July 658 CE Battle of Nahrawan
Part of the First Islamic Civil War
10 October 680 CE Battle of Karbala
Part of the Second Islamic Civil War
Mid-October 691 CE Battle of Maskin
Part of the Second Islamic Civil War
744–750 CE Third Islamic Civil War
25 January 750 CE Battle of the Zab
Part of the Abbasid Revolution
September 762 – February 763 CE Alid Revolt
August 812 – 28 September 813 CE Siege of Baghdad
Part of the Fourth Islamic Civil War

Modern times (c. 1517 CE – Present)

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Ottoman empire (c. 1517 – c. 1917 CE)

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Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (c. 1917 – c. 1920 CE)

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Kingdom of Iraq (c. 1932 – c. 1958 CE)

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Ba'athist Iraq (c. 1968 – c. 2003 CE)

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Coalition Provisional Authority (c. 2003 – c. 2004 CE)

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Republic of Iraq (c. 2004 CE – Present)

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See also

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References

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