Operation Steel Curtain

Operation Steel Curtain
	Part of the Iraq War
	; A U.S. Marine and Iraqi Army soldiers watch over the surrounding streets from a rooftop in Karabilah, Iraq, during Operation Steel Curtain on 11 November 2005.
Date	5–22 November 2005
Location	Husaybah, Karabilah, Ubaydi, Iraq
Result	U.S. victory
Belligerents
United States; New Iraqi Army	Iraqi insurgents
Commanders and leaders
Col. J.D. Alford (3/6) ; Col. S.W. Davis (RCT-2)	Mahmoud Latif (1920 Revolution Brigades commander) Hatim Muslim (Ansar al-Sunnah commander) Muhannad Ulayyan (Islamic Army in Iraq commander) Farhan Khalifawi (Islamic Army in Iraq commander) Khaled Mahal (Al-Qaeda in Iraq commander) Haqqi Shourtani (Mujahideen Army in Iraq commander)
Casualties and losses
10 killed, 30 injured; Unknown	139 killed; 256 captured
	97+ civilians killed

Operation Steel Curtain (Arabic: الحجاب الفولاذي Al Hejab Elfulathi) was a military operation executed by coalition forces in early November 2005 to reduce the flow of foreign insurgents crossing the border and joining the Iraqi insurgency. The operation was important in that it was the first large scale deployment of the New Iraqi Army. This offensive was part of the larger Operation Sayeed (Hunter), designed to prevent al Qaeda in Iraq from operating in the Euphrates River Valley and throughout Al Anbar and to establish a permanent Iraqi Army presence in the Al Qa’im region.

^ Period Details Archived 17 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ Knickmeyer, Ellen (24 December 2005). "U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2 November 2016.

[1] Period Details Archived 17 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[civilian-toll-2] Knickmeyer, Ellen (24 December 2005). "U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2 November 2016.

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