✦ History

Part of Iran–Iraq War, Tawakalna ala Allah Operations

Second Battle of al-Faw

April 17–18, 1988 · Second Battle of al-Faw

Result Iraqi victory

Iraq retook the al-Faw peninsula in two days, opening its final offensives.

On the map Contemporaries

Iran

Iraq

Iran
Iraq
Ruhollah Khomeini military commander Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani military commander Mohsen Rezaee military commander
Saddam Hussein military commander Maher Abd al-Rashid military commander Ayad Futtayih al-Rawi military commander Adnan Khairallah military commander

Strength and losses

Killed
5,000
Captured
10,000
Killed
800
Tanks lost
20

Units

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Iraqi Republican Guard 1st Hammurabi Armoured Division 2nd Al Medina Armored Division Iraqi VII Corps (1980–1988) 1st Division (Iraq) 6th Division (Iraq) 7th Division (Iraq)

Also involved 1