PUK insurgency

PUK insurgency
	Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
Date	1975–1979
Location	Iraqi Kurdistan (nominally northern Iraq)
Result	Long-term Iraqi strategic victory PUK military failure; KDP tactical failure; Kurds failed to defeat the Iraqi government; Eventual 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq;
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Casualties and losses
	Total: 1,000+ killed

The PUK insurgency was a low-level rebellion of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) against Baathist Iraq from 1975 to 1979, following the defeat of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War, which forced that organization to declare a ceasefire and move into exile in Iran. Due to lack of foreign support, the PUK guerrillas were only able to operate in the most remote parts of the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.^[2] During this period, the PUK plunged into a political crisis with the KDP, which led to heavy intra-Kurdish warfare, climaxing in 1977. After the insurgency, the PUK entered into an alliance with Iranian forces during the Iran–Iraq War, and were backed by Iran in the Kurdish rebellion of 1983.

^ Lortz, M. G. Willing to Face Death: A History of Kurdish Military Forces - the Peshmerga - From the Ottoman Empire to Present-Day Iraq. 2005: p.52. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-27. Retrieved 2015-07-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Galbraith, Peter (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-9423-8

[lortz-1] Lortz, M. G. Willing to Face Death: A History of Kurdish Military Forces - the Peshmerga - From the Ottoman Empire to Present-Day Iraq. 2005: p.52. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-27. Retrieved 2015-07-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[End_of_Iraq-2] Galbraith, Peter (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-9423-8

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