Operation Karbala 10

Part of the Iran–Iraq War

Date	14 April–May 1987
Location	Northern Iraq
Result	Kurdish and Iranian tactical victory
Territorial changes	Minimal territorial gains of insignificant lands for Iran; Iranian advance halts at Mawat.

Belligerents

Iraq

Iran

Peshmerga

Iran–Iraq War

Pre-war incidents

1975 Algiers Agreement
Iranian Revolution
1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
1979 Khuzestan insurgency
Iranian Embassy siege

Iraqi invasion of Iran (1980)

Iraqi airstrike
Revenge
Kaman 99
1st Khorramshahr
Scorch Sword
Dezful
Sultan 10
Abadan
Morvarid

Stalemate (1981)

Nasr
H-3
Opera

Iranian offensives to free Iranian territory (1981–82)

Samen-ol-A'emeh
Tariq-ol-Qods
Fath-ol-Mobin
Beit-ol-Moqaddas (2nd Khorramshahr)

Iranian offensives in Iraq (1982–84)

Ramadan (1st Basra)
Moslem Ibn Aqil
Muharram ol-Harram
Before the Dawn
Dawn 1
Dawn 2
Dawn 3
Dawn 4
Dawn 5 (2nd Basra)
Kheibar (3rd Basra)
Kurdish rebellion (1983)
Dawn 6
Dawn 7
Marshes

Iranian offensives in Iraq (1985–87)

Badr (4th Basra)
Dawn 8 (1st al-Faw)
Dawn 9
Karbala 1 (Mehran)
Karbala 2
Karbala 3
Fath 1
Karbala 4 (5th Basra)
Karbala 5 (6th Basra)
Karbala 6
Karbala 7
Karbala 8 (7th Basra)
Karbala 9
Karbala 10
Nasr 4

Final stages (1988)

Beit-ol-Moqaddas 2
Anfal campaign
Beit-ol-Moqaddas 3
Dawn 10
Halabja massacre
Beit-ol-Moqaddas 4
Zafar 7
Tawakalna ala Allah (2nd al-Faw)
Forty Stars
Eternal Light
Mersad

Tanker War

June 5 1984 Skirmish
Earnest Will
Bridgeton incident
Prime Chance
Eager Glacier
Nimble Archer
Praying Mantis

International incidents

Operation Karbala 10 was a joint operation by Iran and Kurdish PUK rebels in Iraq.

Following the failure of the Siege of Basra, the Iranians launched Operation Karbala 10 in northern Iraq on 14 April. The Iranians, supported by a few thousand PUK Peshmergas succeeded to capturing the outskirts of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja and lands around them.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Razoux, Pierre (2015-11-03). The Iran-Iraq War. Harvard University Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-0-674-08863-4.
^ Sadri, Houman A. (1997). Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and Iran. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-275-95321-8.