List of conflicts in Iraq

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.

Approximated dates	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Approximated dates	Name of conflict	Victorious parties (if applicable)	Defeated parties (if applicable)
Early Dynastic period (c. 2900 – c. 2334 BCE)
c. 2600 BCE	Sumer–Elam war	Sumerians	Elamites
c. 2600 BCE	Siege of Uruk Part of Mesopotamia Early Dynastic Period wars	Urukians (Sumerians)	Kishites (Semites)
c. 2450 BCE	Umma–Lagash war	Lagashites (Sumerians)	Ummaites (Sumerians)
c. 2340 BCE	Battle of Uruk Part of the Conquests of Sargon of Akkad	Akkadians (Semites)	Urukians (Sumerians)
Neo-Assyrian period (c. 911 – c. 626 BCE)
693 BCE	Battle of Diyala River Part of the Campaigns of Sennacherib	Assyrians	Babylonians (Semites)
689 BCE	Siege of Babylon Part of the Campaigns of Sennacherib	Assyrians	Babylonians (Semites)
Neo-Babylonian period (c. 626 – c. 539 BCE)
626 BCE	Revolt of Babylon Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire	Babylonians (Semites)	Assyrians
616 BCE	Battle of Arrapha Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire	Babylonians (Semites) Medians
614 BCE	Fall of Assur Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire	Medians
612 BCE	Battle of Nineveh Part of the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire	Babylonians (Semites) Medians Scythians Persians Cimmerians
Achaemenid period (c. 539 – c. 330 BCE)
September 539 BCE	Battle of Opis Part of the Persian conquest of Babylonia	Persians	Babylonians (Semites)
1 October 331 BCE	Battle of Gaugamela Part of the Wars of Alexander the Great	Macedonians	Persians
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	Seleucids	Antigonids
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	Antigonids	Seleucids
10 August 309 BCE	Battle of the 25 of Abu Part of the Wars of the Diadochi and Babylonian War	Seleucids	Antigonids
Roman period (c. 31 – c. 375 BCE)
198 CE	Battle of Ctesiphon Part of the Roman–Parthian Wars	Romans	Parthians
217 CE	Battle of Nisibis Part of the Roman–Parthian Wars	Parthians	Romans
243 CE	Battle of Resaena Part of the Roman–Persian Wars	Romans	Persians
Winter of 244 CE	Battle of Misiche Part of the Roman–Persian Wars	Persians	Romans
252 CE	Battle of Barbalissos Part of the Roman–Persian Wars	Persians	Romans
Spring 260 CE	Battle of Edessa Part of the Roman–Persian Wars	Persians	Romans

217–502 Roman–Sassanid wars
- 263 Battle of Ctesiphon
- 298 Battle of Satala
- 344 Battle of Singara
- 359 Siege of Amida
- April 27–29, 363 Siege of Pirisabora
- May 29, 363 Battle of Ctesiphon
- June 363 Battle of Samarra
502–628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
- 502–506 Anastasian War
- 526–532 Iberian War
- 572–591 Byzantine–Sasanian War
- c. 602 – c. 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War
633–651 Muslim conquest of Persia
- April 633 Battle of River
- May 633 Battle of Walaja
- May 633 Battle of Ullais
- May 633 Battle of Hira
- 633 Battle of Ayn al-Tamr
- November 633 Battle of Muzayyah
- November 633 Battle of Saniyy
- November 633 Battle of Zumail
- c. January 634 Battle of Firaz
- October 634 Battle of the Bridge
- November 16–19, 636 Battle of al-Qādisiyyah
- January–March 637 Siege of Ctesiphon
- April 637 Battle of Jalula

Medieval times (651–1517)

Approximated dates	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Approximated dates	Name of conflict	Victorious parties (if applicable)	Defeated parties (if applicable)
8 December 656	Battle of the Camel Part of the First Islamic Civil War	Forces of Ali	Forces of Aisha
17 July 658	Battle of Nahrawan Part of the First Islamic Civil War	Rashidun caliphate	Kharijites
10 October 680	Battle of Karbala Part of the Second Islamic Civil War	Umayyad caliphate	Husayn ibn Ali and his partisans
Mid-October 691	Battle of Maskin Part of the Second Islamic Civil War	Umayyad caliphate	Zubayrid Caliphate
744–750	Third Islamic Civil War	Abbasid caliphate	Umayyad caliphate Alids Kharijites
25 January 750	Battle of the Zab Part of the Abbasid Revolution		Umayyad caliphate
September 762 – February 763	Alid Revolt		Alids
August 812 – 28 September 813	Siege of Baghdad Part of the Fourth Islamic Civil War	Forces of al-Ma'mun	Forces of al-Amin

861–870 Anarchy at Samarra
Buyid–Hamdanid Wars
- April–August 946 Battle of Baghdad
Abbasid–Seljuq Wars
- January 12 – July 3, 1157 CE Siege of Baghdad
1206–1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
- c. 29 January – c. 10 February 1258 Siege of Baghdad

List of conflicts in Iraq

Medieval times (651–1517)

Modern times (1517–present)

Ottoman empire (1517–1917)

Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (1917–1920)

Kingdom of Iraq (1932–1958)

Ba'athist Iraq (1968–2003)

Coalition Provisional Authority (2003–2004)

Republic of Iraq (2005–present)

See also

References

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