Anbar campaign (2015–2016)
| Anbar campaign (2015–2016) | |||||||||
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| Part of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) | |||||||||
Location of the Al Anbar Governorate in Iraq | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
Support | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Gen. Othman al-Ghanmi |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader) | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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Quwat al-Shaheed al-Sadr al-Awal | Military of ISIL | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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13,000+ fighters
| Several thousand fighters | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 6,000–19,000 killed | 150,00–42,555 killed | ||||||||
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15+ civilians killed 505,300+ civilians displaced 143+ civilians killed | |||||||||
The Anbar campaign (2015–2016) was a military campaign launched by the Iraqi Armed Forces and their allies aimed at recapturing areas of the Anbar Governorate held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), including the city of Ramadi, which ISIL seized earlier in 2015. The United States and other nations aided Iraq with airstrikes.