2017 Western Iraq campaign

2017 Western Iraq campaign
Part of the War in Iraq (2013-2017)
Map of the Iraqi advances in Western Iraq
Date 26 October – 9 December 2017 (1 month, 1 week and 6 days) Location Western Iraq Western Anbar Governorate al-Jazira Desert (Parts of Nineveh Governorate, Saladin Governorate and Anbar Governorate) 33°25′00″N 43°18′00″E / 33.4167°N 43.3000°E / 33.4167; 43.3000 Result Iraqi victory End of the War in Iraq (2013-2017). Remaining ISIS fighters flee to remote deserts and mountains following December 2017 and stage a low-intensity insurgency against Iraqi forces and allies.[1] Territorial changes The Iraqi Army recaptures Al-Qa'im, the Al-Qa'im District, Al-Qa'im border crossing,[2][3][4][5] and Rawa. Iraqi forces fully control all Iraqi territory.
Belligerents
Iraq CJTF–OIR	ISIL
Commanders and leaders
Lt. Gen. Abdel Emir Yarallah[6]	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi[7]
Units involved
Iraqi pro-government forces Iraqi security forces Armed Forces Federal Police Local Sunni tribes Popular Mobilisation Forces	Military of ISIL
Strength
Unknown	1,500 (CJTF-OIR estimate)[8]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The 2017 Western Iraq campaign was the final major military operation of the 2013–2017 war in Iraq, in the western province of Anbar, and on the border with Syria, with the goal of completely expelling ISIL forces from their last strongholds in Iraq.^[9][10]

The offensive followed the Hawija offensive by the Iraqi Government, and was also concurrent with several major offensives in Syria: the Syrian Democratic Forces' Deir ez-Zor offensive, and the Syrian Government's Battle of Deir ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing.