Operation Northern Lights

Operation Northern Lights (Arabic: عملية أضواء الشمال) was a joint U.S-Iraqi operation. It Consisted of approximately 1,400 personnel with a mission to disrupt anti-Coalition forces and to find and destroy rebel caches in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, Iraq.

For other uses, see Operation Northern Lights (disambiguation).

Operation Northern Lights
Part of the Post-invasion Iraq

Operation Northern Lights.
Date22 March 2006 -
Location
Iraq
Result Indecisive
Belligerents
US-led coalition, New Iraqi Army Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi insurgents
Commanders and leaders
Confidential Confidential
Strength
1,400 troops Unknown

References
  • Fred J. Pushies (2008). 10th Mountain Division. MBI Publishing Company. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-1-61673-268-4.


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