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Iraq civil war

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ20801596 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iraqi civil war may refer to:

Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918–2003), wars and rebellions by Iraqi Kurds against the government

First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1961–70)

Second Iraqi–Kurdish War (1974–75)

1991 Iraqi uprisings, rebellions in Iraq during a ceasefire in the Gulf War

Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (1994–97), a conflict between rival Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi conflict (2003–present).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Iraq civil war” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 2003, 1961, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Iraq, civil and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20801596. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1918, 2003, 1961 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iraq civil war” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.