Kurdish Military History
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Explore the articles linked from the military history timeline. Repeated event links are gathered into one entry for each article.
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- Assyrian Campaigns in the Zamua Highlands: Empire Against the Mountains of Kurdistan
- Gordyene: The Ancient Kingdom Between Empires in the Heart of Kurdistan
- Iraqi Kurdistan: From the 1991 Uprising to the Independence Referendum (1991–2017)
- Kurdish Dynasties at War: The Military Campaigns of the Hasanwayhids, Annazids, Marwanids, Rawadids and Shadda
- Kurdistan Between Empires: The Ottoman-Safavid Frontier Wars (1514–1780s)
- Rojava and the Wars of Syrian Kurdistan: Revolution, ISIS, and the Fight for Survival (2004–2026)
- Saladin’s Wars: From Egypt to Hattin to the Third Crusade (1164–1192)
- Sheikh Ubeydullah and the First Modern Kurdish Revolt (1879–1881)
- The Anfal Campaign and the Kurdish Genocide (1988)
- The Barzani Revolts and the Rise of the Peshmerga (1931–1975)
- The Cyrtians: Elite Mountain Troops of the Ancient Zagros
- The Fall of the Kurdish Emirates: Centralisation Wars of the Nineteenth Century (1806–1896)
- The First Kurdish Dynasties at War: Aishanids, Hasanwayhids, and Annazids (912–1117 CE)
- The Gutians and the Fall of Akkad: Mountain Warriors Who Toppled the World's First Empire
- The Islamic Conquest of Kurdistan and the Age of Kurdish Resistance (637–905 CE)
- The Karduchoi and Xenophon's Ten Thousand: The First Account of Kurdistan's Mountain Warriors
- The Kurdish Struggle in Iran: From Revolution to Resistance (1979–2026)
- The Later Ayyubid Wars: From Damietta to Mansurah to the Fall of the Dynasty (1218–1260)
- The Lullubi: Mountain Warriors of the Zagros Who Defied the Akkadian Empire
- The Marwanids of Diyar Bakr: Kurdistan's Greatest Medieval Dynasty (983–1085 CE)
- The Medes and the Fall of Assyria: How Highland Warriors Destroyed the World's Greatest Empire
- The Roman-Sasanian Wars in the Kurdish Highlands: Five Centuries of Empires at War
- The Shaddadids and Rawadids: Kurdish Warriors of the Caucasus and Azerbaijan (951–1199 CE)
- The Sheikh Said, Ararat, and Dersim Rebellions: Interwar Kurdish Revolts in Turkey
- The Turkey-PKK Conflict: Four Decades of War and the 2025 Ceasefire (1984–2025)
- World War I and the Interwar Kurdish Revolts: From the Ottoman Collapse to the Republic of Mahabad (1914–1947)