2008 Nineveh campaign

2008 Nineveh campaign
	Part of the Iraq War (Operation Phantom Phoenix)
Date	January 23 – July 28, 2008
Location	Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Result	Indecisive Insurgents manage to maintain a significant presence in Mosul and surrounding areas and make the region their last urban stronghold; Insurgents are largely isolated from the rest of the country and not able to conduct coordinated attacks outside of Ninawa.; Major fighting during the Iraq War was largely over following the offensive, leading to the beginning of the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq and the end of the Iraq War.;
Belligerents
United States; Iraq	Islamic state of Iraq; Other Iraqi Insurgents
Commanders and leaders
Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling; (MND-North); Maj. Gen. Fadhil al-Barwari; (ISOF commander); Maj. Gen. Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq; (Ninewa Operational Command); Brig. Gen. Moutaa Habeeb Jassim; (2nd IA Division); Maj. Gen. Wathiq Mohammed Abdul-Qadir Hamdani; (Iraqi Police); Brig. Gen. Salih Mohammed Hasan †; (Iraqi Police)	Abu Yasir Jarullah †; (ISI Field Commander); Abd-al-Rahman Ibrahim Jasim Tha'ir (POW); (ISI Mosul Commander); Abdul Khaleq al Sabaawi (POW); (Mosul Leader); Abu Mansour Ahmed Ali †; (Second-in-Command); Hajji Hamdani †; (AA Commander); Nawaf Lutfi Jarrah (POW); (Ansar-ul-Sunnah Commander)
Casualties and losses
17 killed; 289 security forces killed; 2 captured; 31 Sons of Iraq killed	224 killed; 1,480 captured
	548 civilians killed

The 2008 Nineveh campaign was a series of offensives and counter-attacks between insurgent and Coalition forces for control of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq in early-to-mid-2008. Some fighting also occurred in the neighboring Kirkuk Governorate.