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First Kurdish-Iraqi War

First Kurdish–Iraqi War
Part of Iraqi-Kurdish conflict
Date 11 September 1961–1970
Location South Kurdistan, (nominally Iraqi Republic (1958–68) and Baathist Iraq)
Result

Stalemate
Belligerents
KDP
Before 1968:
Republic of Iraq
Syria
After 1968:
Ba'athist Iraq
Commanders and leaders

Mustafa Barzani
Ibrahim Ahmad
Jalal Talabani
Omar Mustafa
Ali Askari

Kamal Mufti

Abdul Karim Qasim (1958–1963)
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1963)
Abdul Salam Arif (1963–1966)

Abdul Rahman Arif (1966–1970)
Strength
15,000–20,000 48,000 Iraqi troops (1969);
6,000 Syrian troops.
Casualties and losses
unknown 10,000 Iraqi soldiers killed
Total Casualties: 75,000–105,000 killed

Stalemate

Mustafa Barzani
Ibrahim Ahmad
Jalal Talabani
Omar Mustafa
Ali Askari

Abdul Karim Qasim (1958–1963)
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1963)
Abdul Salam Arif (1963–1966)


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