Mesopotamian campaign
November 6, 1914 – November 14, 1918 · Mesopotamia
Result Allied victory
British and Indian forces fought the Ottoman Empire in Mesopotamia, now Iraq. After the disaster at Kut, the British took Baghdad in 1917 and held most of the region by the end of the war.
Allies
Central Powers
Battles 16
- Fao Landing November 6, 1914 · British victory
- Battle of Basra (1914) November 11–22, 1914 · British victory
- Battle of Qurna December 3–9, 1914 · British-Indian victory
- Battle of Shaiba April 12–14, 1915 · British-Indian victory
- Battle of Es Sinn September 28, 1915 · British–Indian victory
- Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) November 22–25, 1915 · Inconclusive
- Siege of Kut December 7, 1915 – April 29, 1916 · Ottoman victory
- Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad January 6–8, 1916 · British-Indian victory
- Battle of Wadi (1916) January 13, 1916 · Ottoman victory
- Battle of Hanna January 21, 1916 · Ottoman victory
- Battle of Dujaila March 8, 1916 · Ottoman victory
- Second Battle of Kut February 23, 1917 · British Empire victory
- Capture of Baghdad (1917) March 8–11, 1917 · British victory
- Samarra offensive March 13 – April 23, 1917 · British victory
- Battles of Ramadi (1917) September 28–29, 1917 · Ottoman victory
- Battle of Sharqat October 23–30, 1918 · British–Assyrian victory
Before and after
- Ended by
- Armistice of Mudros October 30, 1918
