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Tawakalna ala Allah Operations | |||||||||
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Part of Iran–Iraq War | |||||||||
Iranian soldiers captured during the Iraqi 1988 offensives | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Iraq | Iran | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Saddam Hussein Gen. al-Rashid[a] Lt. Gen. al-Rawi [b] Mj. Gen. Mahmoud[c] |
Ruhollah Khomeini Akbar Rafsanjani Mohsen Rezaee Colonel Ali Shahbazi | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
Republican Guard 7th Corps 4th Corps 3rd Corps Special Forces 16th and 3rd brigades [11] |
Revolutionary Guard Basij Regular Army | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
100,000–135,000 soldiers in action[12] 1,500,000 total soldiers 5,500 tanks 900 aircraft |
60,000–100,000 soldiers in action[12] 300,000 total soldiers 400 tanks 55 operational aircraft | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
5,000 casualties[9] |
28,000 casualties[13] 20,000 captured[14] 90 tanks destroyed[9] 600 tanks, 400 AFVs, 20 SSMs, 400 various AA guns captured[15] |
Operation Tawakalna ala Allah (Arabic: عمليات توكلنا على الله, romanized: tawakkalnā ‘alā llāh, Operations “We Put Trust In God") were a series of five highly successful Iraqi offensives launched in April 1988 and lasting until July 1988.[d] Iraq had originally only intended to retake the al-Faw peninsula it had lost to Iran, but following the battles' extraordinary success due to the complete collapse of the Iranian troops present, the Iraqi command decided to expand the battle into a larger offensive campaign, ultimately leading to the expulsion of all Iranian forces present within Iraq and subsequent renewed invasion of Iran.
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