Iraq

Timeline

Oldest first

1. War

   Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty1235–1279 CE

   The Mongol Empire and, from 1271, the Yuan dynasty

   Mongol Empire, Yuan dynasty, Northern Chinese "Han Army" troops and Song commanders and soldiers who changed sides, Troops of the Dali Kingdom (Yunnan), led by its Duan royal family under Mongol command after the Mongols took Dali in 1253, and Ilkhanate (sent the engineers who built counterweight trebuchets) (supporting)

   against

   The Southern Song dynasty

   Song dynasty

   The Song dynasty ended in 1279 and the Yuan dynasty of Kublai Khan ruled all of China.

2. War

   Iran–Iraq War1980–1988 CE

   Iran

   Iran

   against

   Iraq

   Iraq

   A UN-brokered ceasefire under Resolution 598 took effect on 20 August 1988 with neither side victorious; in 1990 Iraq withdrew from the last Iranian land it held and accepted the pre-war border.

3. War

   Gulf War1990–1991 CE

   US-led coalition

   United States, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, France, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait

   against

   Iraq

   Iraq

   Iraqi forces left Kuwait and the coalition declared a ceasefire on 28 February 1991; Iraq accepted UN ceasefire terms, and sanctions on it stayed in place.

4. War

   Iraq War2003–2011 CE

   US-led coalition and the post-2003 Iraqi governments

   United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, Kurdish Peshmerga, and Iraqi governments after 2003

   against

   Ba'athist Iraq, then the insurgent groups

   Ba'athist Iraq (Saddam Hussein's government), Ba'athist and Sunni insurgent groups, Al-Qaeda in Iraq / Islamic State of Iraq, and Mahdi Army

   Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003 and new Iraqi governments were formed under occupation; the last US troops left in December 2011, while violence inside Iraq continued.