Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)

Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)

Part of the Iraq War (2014–present)

Date

4–25 June 2014 (2 weeks and 6 days)

Location

Nineveh, Kirkuk, Saladin, and Diyala provinces

Result

ISIL and allies victory

Iraqi Government loses significant territories in northern Iraq to ISIL and its Ba'ath allies, including the region from Mosul to Tikrit and Tal Afar along with parts of Kirkuk and Diyala provinces.
Government counter-attack recaptures several towns north of Baghdad
Kurdish forces take control of Kirkuk, parts of northern Nineveh and north-eastern Diyala
3–5 Iraqi Army divisions destroyed
ISIL Caliphate proclaimed, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as the Caliph

Belligerents

Republic of Iraq

Syria (limited involvement)

Syrian Air Force

Supported by:

Iraqi Kurdistan

Peshmerga

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

Assyrian/Syriac forces

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

Ansar al-Islam

Islamic Army in Iraq

Hamas of Iraq

Sunni Islamist militias

Anbar Tribe Revolutionary Councils
Mujahideen Army
1920 Revolution Brigade

Iraqi Ba'ath Party loyalists

al-Nusra Front (alleged limited involvement)

Commanders and leaders

Nouri al-Maliki
Abboud Qanbar
Ali Ghaidan
Mahdi Al-Gharrawi
Sa'ad Mi'an
Sabah Al-Fatlawi
Issam Hallaq

Qasem Soleimani

Masoud Barzani
Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa
Mustafa Said Qadir
Bahoz Erdal

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Adnan Ismail Najm al-Bilawi Al-Dulaimi †
Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
Ismail Jubouri

Ali Hatem al-Suleiman

Strength

25,000–30,000 (two army divisions)
10,000 federal police
30,000 local police
2,000 Iranian Quds Force
1,000 U.S. Troops

190,000 Kurdish peshmerga

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: 30,000–50,000 in Iraq
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order: 5,000+
Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007)

Free Iraqi Army: 2,500

Casualties and losses

ISIL claim:
1,700 executed out of 4,500 captured
Government/UN claim:
800 killed, 1,900 missing (1,566 executed), 90,000 deserted

Iran: 4 killed

711+ killed (255 executed)

1,235–1,265 civilians killed (by 25 June)

More than 1 million have fled from their cities
95 Turkish civilians captured

ISIL and allies victory

Republic of Iraq

Syria (limited involvement)

Supported by:

Iraqi Kurdistan

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

Assyrian/Syriac forces

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