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Operation Karbala 10
Operation Karbala 10 was a joint operation by Iran and Kurdish Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK rebels in Iraq. Following the failure of the Siege of Basra, the Iran, Iranians launched Operation Karbala 10 in northern Iraq on 14 April. The Iranians, supported by a few thousand Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK Peshmerga, Peshmergas succeeded to capturing the outskirts of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja and lands around them. References History of Iran: Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 Iran Chamber Society Operations Karbala 1987 in Iraqi Kurdistan Military operations of the Iran–Iraq War involving the Peshmerga Military operations of the Iran–Iraq War in 1987 Halabja Governorate History of Sulaymaniyah Governorate April 1987 in Asia May 1987 in Asia {{Mil-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for nearly eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides. Iraq's primary rationale for the attack against Iran cited the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini—who had spearheaded the Iranian revolution in 1979—from exporting the new Iranian ideology to Iraq. There were also fears among the Iraqi leadership of Saddam Hussein that Iran, a theocratic state with a population predominantly composed of Shia Muslims, would exploit sectarian tensions in Iraq by rallying Iraq's Shia majority against the Baʽathist government, which was officially secular but dominated by Sunni Muslims. Iraq also wished to replace Iran as the power player in the Persian Gulf, which was not seen as an achievable objective prior to the Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
