 | The topic of this articlemay not meet Wikipedia'sgeneral notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citingreliable secondary sources that areindependent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to bemerged,redirected, ordeleted. Find sources: "Battle of Zakho" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(February 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Battle of Zakho | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of1991 uprisings in Iraq | |||||||||
  Zakho | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||||
|  Peshmerga | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Ali Hassan al-Majid | Massoud Barzani | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
TheBattle of Zakho was fought during the1991 uprisings in Iraq following theGulf War.Zakho is aKurdish city of over 50,000 inhabitants. People in the Zakho district of theDuhok Governorate attacked the military bases, stormed government buildings and took control of the town on 13 March. However, the victory came at a cost, as civilians were killed by forces of Saddam Hussein’s regime during clashes at certain military and intelligence sites in the city.[2] The town was recaptured by government forces on 1 April.