Iraqi Kurdistan conflict (2001–2003)

Iraqi Kurdistan conflict
	Part of the Iraqi no-fly zones conflict, the Iraq War, and War on terror
	; Iraqi Kurdistan, 2003
Date	September 2001 – March 2003
Location	Kurdistan region
Result	Kurdistan Region-United States victory Kurdish Islamists flee south and join the Iraqi insurgency and later the Syrian civil war;
Belligerents
Islamic Emirate of Byara Ansar al-Islam; Kurdistan Islamic Group; Kurdistan Islamic Movement; Iran (alleged by Peshmerga)	Kurdistan Region Patriotic Union of Kurdistan; Kurdistan Democratic Party; United States (armed involvement after Viking Hammer)
Commanders and leaders
Mullah Krekar; Mullah Ali Bapir; Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i	Jalal Talabani; Massoud Barzani; Tommy Franks
Strength
Ansar al-Islam: 700-1000 fighters; IUM: 40 fighters	KDP and PUK: 70,000; ~40 Americans
Casualties and losses
200+ killed	Unknown, at least 45 killed and 93 wounded

From 2001 to 2003, there was a military conflict in Iraqi Kurdistan between the Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam and its allies against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The conflict began in 2001 as an insurgency, but subsequently merged with the larger 2003 invasion of Iraq after Operation Viking Hammer. After the invasion, Ansar al-Islam moved southwards to participate in the Iraqi insurgency and, after it was quelled, the Syrian civil war.

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