2017 Western Iraq campaign

2017 Western Iraq campaign
Part of the War in Iraq (2013–2017)

Map of the Iraqi advances in Western Iraq
Date26 October – 9 December 2017
(1 month, 1 week and 6 days)
Location
Western Iraq
33°25′00″N 43°18′00″E / 33.4167°N 43.3000°E / 33.4167; 43.3000
Result

Iraqi victory

Territorial
changes
  • The Iraqi Army recaptures Al-Qa'im, the Al-Qa'im District, Al-Qa'im border crossing, and Rawa.
  • Iraqi forces fully control all Iraqi territory.
  • Belligerents
    Iraq
    CJTF–OIR
    Islamic State
    Commanders and leaders
    Lt. Gen. Abdel Emir Yarallah Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
    Units involved
    Military of the Islamic State
    Strength
    Unknown 1,500 (CJTF-OIR estimate)
    Casualties and losses
    Unknown Unknown

    The 2017 Western Iraq campaign was the final 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 IS forces from their last strongholds in Iraq.

    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.