2017 Western Iraq campaign
| 2017 Western Iraq campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of the Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) and the American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present) | |||||||||
 Map of the Iraqi and PMU advances Western Iraq |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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 CJTF–OIR |
 ISIL |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Military of ISIL | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown | 1,500 (CJTF-OIR estimate) | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
Iraq
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Iraqi pro-government forces
The Western Iraq campaign was a military operation by the Iraqi Army against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, in the western province of Anbar, and on the border with Syria, with the goal of completely expelling ISIL forces from its last strongholds in Iraq.
The offensive followed the Hawija offensive by the Iraqi Government, and was also concurrent with several major offensives in Syria: the Syrian Democratic Forces' Deir ez-Zor offensive, and the Syrian Government's Battle of Deir ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing.
Al-Qa'im was known as a hotbed of jihadist insurgency, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with coalition forces carrying out repeated operations against Al-Qaeda jihadists. The strategic and porous border started becoming a route for foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria, who was accused by Iraqi government of ignoring it.
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