Second Gulf War |
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Part of the Arab Spring, the Arab Winter, the War on Terror, the spillover of the Yemeni Civil War, the spillover of the Syrian Civil War and the spillover of the Iraqi conflict |
Clockwise from top: U.S. troops at Uday and Qusay Hussein's hideout; insurgents in northern Iraq; an Iraqi insurgent firing a MANPADS; the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Square |
Date | 7 January 2020 (2020-01-07)–present (4 years, 8 months and 6 days) |
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Location | Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and the Persian Gulf |
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Belligerents |
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Iran Iraq Syria Hezbollah Houthis Supported by: Russia China North Korea |
United States Israel Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Supported by: United Kingdom France Germany Netherlands Australia Belgium Canada Japan Sudan Bahrain Kuwait Qatar Egypt Jordan Morocco
Yemen |
Peshmerga (Iraqi Kurdistan) Rojava (Syrian Democratic Forces) Supported by: United States Russia |
Lebanon
Turkey
Palestinian National Authority
Interim Government (Syrian opposition) |
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Al-Qaeda Hamas |