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Part of Iraq War | |||||||
![]() Italian Army personnel depart Tallil Air Base, Iraq for an early morning convoy escort duty on 28 April 2005 | |||||||
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over 10,000 | 3,200 Italian soldiers, a Romanian battalion, units of the Portuguese military police | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
unknown, but high |
36 Italian casualties 1 Romanian casualty |
Operation Ancient Babylon (Italian: Operazione Antica Babilonia) was the code name given to the deployment of Italian forces during the Iraq War. Their mission lasted from 15 July 2003 to 1 December 2006. The troops were located in and around Nasiriyah.[2]
Italy lost 36 soldiers during the mission, half of them in the 2003 Nasiriyah bombing against the Carabinieri Multinational Specialized Unit base. Italian forces were assisted by Portuguese and Romanian troops.
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