List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War in 2006

300px|thumb|right|M1A1 Abrams pose for a photo under the "Hands of Victory" in Ceremony Square, Baghdad, Iraq.
This is a list of known Coalition military operations of the Iraq War during 2006.
==2006 military operations==
The beginning of 2006 was marked by government creation talks, growing sectarian violence, and continuous anti-coalition attacks. Sectarian violence expanded to a new level of intensity following the al-Askari Mosque bombing in the Iraqi city of Samarra, on 22 February 2006. The explosion at the mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shi'a Islam, is believed to have been caused by a bomb planted by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Although no injuries occurred in the blast, the mosque was severely damaged and the bombing resulted in violence over the following days.
As of 20 October the U.S military announced that Operation Together Forward had failed to stem the tide of violence in Baghdad, and Shiite militants under al-Sadr seized several southern Iraq cities.
On 23 November, the deadliest attack since the beginning of the Iraq war occurred. Suspected Sunni-Arab militants used five suicide car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital's Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least 215 people and wound 257. Shiite mortar teams quickly retaliated, firing 10 shells at Sunni Islam's most important shrine in Baghdad, badly damaging the Abu Hanifa mosque and killing one person. Eight more rounds slammed down near the offices of the Association of Muslim Scholars, the top Sunni Muslim organisation in Iraq, setting nearby houses on fire. Two other mortar barrages on Sunni neighborhoods in west Baghdad killed nine and wounded 21, police said.
After capture in December 2003, Saddam Hussein was hanged on 30 December 2006 after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by an Iraqi court.
Battle/Operation name 	From date 	To date 	Location 	Purpose and result
Operation Industrial Revolution 	 	 	Southeast Fallujah/Industrial Sector 	Cordone and Search Looking for roadside and car bomb Making Facilities
Operation Iron Arrow I 	 	 	Obeidi region, northern portion 	Conducted to root out terrorists on the Sunni side of town
Operation Post Hawk 	 	 	 	
Operation Unified Fist 	 	 	Baghdad 	
Operation Baghdad is Beautiful 	 	 	Baghdad 	Cleanup up Baghdad
Operation King Tut 	 	 	Baghdad 	Searched for weapons caches
Operation Red Bull 	 	 	the "Triad" area of Haditha, Haqlaniyah and Barwana 	The search revealed 75 weapons caches terrorists planned to use during attacks in the region.
Operation Falcon Sweep 	, on or about	, on or about	Shakaria 	One of the operation's objectives was to identify and capture terrorists in the village
Operation Red Bull II 	 	 	the "Triad" area of Haditha, Haqlaniyah and Barwana 	Continue clearing all insurgent operations out of the “Triad” area.
Operation Final Strike (Al Dharba Al Nihaa’ya)	 	 	Jazerra area northwest of Habbaniyah, 75 km west of Baghdad 	Aimed at neutralizing the insurgency activity and providing a secure area for the citizens of the Jazerra.
Operation Smokewagon 	 	 	Hīt, numerous villages south of 	Looking for insurgents and their weapons caches
Operation PitBull 	 	 	east of the Euphrates River 	Designed to squash insurgent operations
Operation God help us (Ala Allah) 	 	 	Subiyhat 	To clear the area of insurgents and interact with the populace
Operation Dirty Harry 	 	 	Muqdadiyah, a neighborhood and farmlands in the southern portion 	To cordon and knock a local neighborhood which included searching homes and farmland for anti-coalition forces and weapon caches
Operation Minotaur 	 	 	a town along the Euphrates River in Al Anbar Province, northwest of Baghdad 	Was aimed at clearing more than nine kilometers of riverbank and several small villages south of Haqlaniyah
Operation Swamp Fox 	 	 	Muqdadiyah 	Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 104 suspected insurgents and confiscated a cache of weapons
Operation Raging Bull 	 	 	the "Triad" region of Haditha, Haqliniyah, and Barwanah off the Euphrates River in western Al Anbar Province	The first, fully independent Iraqi Army-led mission in the “Triad” region
Operation Raging Bull II 	 	 	 	
Operation Jaws V 	 	 	Fallujah 	Disrupting insurgents’ efforts to launch mortar and improvised explosive device attacks against Coalition Forces
Operation El Toro Loco 	 	 	Baghdadi 	
Operation Glory Light 	 	 	Sadr to Yusufiyah area 	Was designed to deny insurgents sanctuary and preempt enemy attacks in the Baghdad area
Operation Lion 	 	 	Baghdad 	Discovered more than 62 tons of munitions and weapons were discovered in over 80 weapons caches as well as the capture of 65 suspected insurgents
Operation Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. 	 	 	Fallujah 	Handed out toys and pamphlets to Iraqi Children
Operation Focus 	 	 	Diwaniyah 	Found a weapons cache
Operation Scales of Justice 	 	 	Baghdad 	Approximately 800 suspected insurgents had been detained and 140 weapons caches discovered and cleared as part of the operation.
Operation Swarmer 	 	 	a 10-by-10-mile square area northeast of Samarra 	The operation resulted in 104 suspected insurgents currently being detained and questioned, and 24 caches discovered.
Operation Cowpens 	 	 	Jabouri Peninsula 	Discovering caches and hampering insurgent efforts
Operation Northern Lights 	 	 	Abu Ghraib 	To disrupt anti-Iraqi forces and to find and destroy terrorist caches in Abu Ghraib. Operation Northern Lights was a joint U.S-Iraqi operation which consisted of approximately 1,400 personnel. Most of the information is confidential and not public.
Operation Scorpion 	 	 	Hawijiah 	A sequential cordon and search of eight villages in and around Hawijah
Operation Red Light II 	 	 	Saladin Province 	Detained 17 anti-Iraqi forces personnel and discovered four weapons caches
Operation Cobra Strike (2006) 	 	 	Haswah and Iskandariyah 	Was a mission intended to locate the suspected leader and financier of a terrorist cell working in the area. The suspected terrorists were implicated in murders, kidnappings and the emplacement of roadside bombs
Operation Harvest Lights 	 	 	Najaf, Karbala and Babil Provinces 	To control the progressive loss of the date palm crop and regenerate the industry
Operation Money Worth 	 	 	Baghdad 	Placed more than 500 concrete barriers at points throughout Baghdad
Operation Sterling 	 	 	Basra 	Detained 14 individuals and recovered a significant weapons cache
Operation Hastings 	 	 	Fallujah, northeast of 	To take weapons out of the hands of insurgents
Operation Bastogne 	 	 	Baghdad 	Blocking off escape routes frequented by insurgents
Operation Bold Action 	 	 	Tarmiya, near 	To provide more security near Tarmiya by chasing the terrorists
Operation Swift Sword 	 	 	the villages and farms west of Bayji 	The operation resulted in the capture of 17 suspected insurgents and the confiscation of a cache of weapons. The cache included more than 100 artillery rounds, mortar rounds, mines, rocket-propelled grenades, sniper rifles, and 4,500 rounds of ammunition
Battle of Diwaniya 	 	 	Diwaniya 	Battle between the Mahdi Army and the Iraqi Army
Operation Babil Perimeter 	 	 	Al Hayy 	Detained five known insurgents and found some weapons caches
Operation Lion Hunt 	 	 	Mosul 	Designed to remove the insurgents from the region making the area safer and to train the Iraqi police
Operation Dragons Breath 	 	 	Ramadi 	Search for weapons caches and insurgents
Operation Lion Hunt II 	 	 	Ninewah province 	To further develop the Iraq police in cordons and searches while reducing the insurgency in the Ninewah province
Operation Stallion Run 	 	 	Baghdad 	The operation was focused on clearing the roads of bombs and the debris that could hide them
Operation Lion 	 	 	Mosul 	A cordon and search operation
Operation Lightning Blitz 	 	 	 	
Operation Tropical Lightning 	 	 	 	
Operation Unified Front 	 	 	Ameriya 	An effort to capture anti-Iraqi forces and seize weapons caches in the neighborhood of Ameriya
Operation Lofty Summit 	 	 	Mushada 	Coalition forces will stage out of the same patrol base as the 11th Special Infrastructure Battalion, a specialized Iraqi army unit that protects an oil pipeline running through Mushada.
Operation Iron Triangle 	 	 	Tikrit 	The operation resulted in the detention of 200 suspected terrorists and the confiscation of weapons and propaganda materials at an insurgent training camp southwest of the city.
Operation Barnstormer 	 	 	Karbala, Wassit, Babil, Baghdad, Diyala, Ninewa and Dohuk 	To protect key staple crops from insect damage in several Iraq provinces
Operation Chepultepec 	 	 	the Ubaydah region of Southern Lutafiyah 	Iraqi Police and Coalition Forces provided the outer cordon around the 80 square kilometer area while the Iraqi Army advanced to their objective to drive the terrorists from the region.
Operation Tinto 	 	 	Basrah 	Was a search and arrest mission
Operation Coolspring VIII 	 	 	Mosul 	Three men of military age previously on the Iraqi Army's most wanted list were detained in searches of a wide area south of the city.
Operation Roaring Tiger 	 	 	Baghdad, Adhamiyah district 	The operation captured 19 suspected insurgents
Operation Cool Carpet 	 	 	Gharmah 	To deliver prayer rugs along with two new air conditioning units
Operation Together Forward 	 	 	Baghdad 	One of the largest combined security operations in the city since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003
Battle of Ramadi (2006) 	 	 	Ramadi 	The objective of the operation was to take full control of a city that had been out of the hands of the American military for the better part of two years.
Operation Sand Storm 	 	 	Ayn Mana 	To seek out illicit weapons and insurgent forces
Operation Iron Gate 	 	 	Hawija and Riyadh 	Observe and prevent illegal border crossing's from Iran
Operation Relentless Hunt 	 	 	Hawija and Riyadh 	
Operation Gaugamela 	 	 	Hawija and Riyadh 	A search for suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in towns just west of Kirkuk
Operation River Falcon 	 	 	Sayifiyeh 	The operation was aimed at denying terrorists the use of the town as a safe haven, disrupting insurgent attacks on Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces, and on collecting and destroying insurgent munitions
Operation Thundercat 	 	 	Baghdad 	To disrupt and destroy the insurgency in and around Baghdad
Operation Floodlight 	 	, on or about	Fallujah 	To locate insurgents and weapons targeting coalition and Iraqi forces south of the city
Operation Guardian Tiger IV 	 	 	Haditha Triad region's 	Captured more than 30 suspected insurgents
Operation Passage 	 	 	Al Magrab, near Mosul 	an Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police and U.S. Army joint forces mission
Operation Rubicon 	 	 	Husayba 	A combat mission when they stopped to give the refreshments to the kids
Operation Constant Solidarity 	 	 	Diwaniyah 	To weed out more than 2,000 terrorists in and around the city
Operation Yorktown 	 	 	Al Anbar Province 	Security and Law enforcement: To develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi reconstruction
Battle of Al Rumaythah 	 	 	Al Rumaythah 	Contact between Australian forces from Overwatch Battle Group (West) and unidentified insurgents.
Operation Iron Arrow II 	 	 	Obeidi region 	An IA-led effort aimed at establishing security in the northern portion of the region on the Shia side
Operation Commando Hunter 	 	 	Yusufiyah 	Was intended to deny terrorists sanctuary in the city 20 mi (30 km) southwest of Baghdad
Operation SOUK 	 	 	Fallujah 	A cordon and search mission
Operation Half Nelson 	 	 	Hurriyah 	Peacekeeping and Counterinsurgency: An attempt to build trust with Iraqi civilians and eliminate terrorists
Operation Medusa 	 	 	Mosul 	
Operation Benefit Day 	 	 	Baghdad 	Marines and Iraqi Security Forces passed out backpacks full of school supplies to the children
Operation Dealer 	 	 	Ramadi 	Was undertaken to establish a combat outpost in the area.
Battle of Amarah 	 	 	Amarah 	Began when 800 masked members of the Mahdi army stormed three police stations in Amarah
Operation Helping Hand 	 	 	Tuz 	Delivered basic food staples to about 300 Kurd, Turkmen and Arab families
Battle of Fallujah(2006) 	 	 	Fallujah 	(See Operation Phantom Fury)
Operation Trifecta 	 	 	Zaidon 	Performed house-to-house searches and wide spread cache sweeps
Battle of Turki 	 	 	Turki 	Was fought over 40 hours between American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division and well trained insurgent forces.
Operation Talon 	0 	 	Fallujah, north of 	Humanitarian and Counterinsurgency: Rescued 2 hostages and detained 13 suspected insurgents
Operation Polar Black Diamond 	 	 	al Taca 	Detained 10 terrorist suspects and found a cache of improvised explosive device components
Operation Polar Valor 	 	 	 	
Operation Cougar 	 	 	Adhamiyah 	A cordon and search operation
Operation Arctic Sunrise 	 	 	Baghdad, South of 	Removed a sizeable cache of bomb making material, detained 11 individuals believed to be involved in insurgent activities and improved the living conditions for the Iraqi people in the area
Operation Eagle Watch 	 	 	Tikrit 	Fifteen suspects were detained in several locations near the city
Operation Moonlight (Alkamra Almaner) 	 	 	 	Netted a weapons cache and demonstrated the Iraqi Army soldiers’ ability to gather intelligence, plan, execute and exercise command and control during a large-scale operation
Operation Gladiator 	 	 	Baghdad 	To sweep the Al Doura market and clear the area so merchants can return and be safe
Operation Beastmaster 	 	 	Baghdad, the western suburb of Ghazaliya 	Cleared three large neighborhoods which were the sights of much sectarian violence
==See also==
*List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War
*2006 in Iraq
==References==
*National Force Iraq Website
*Global security
*National Corps-Iraq
*Defense America
*Army 1st Division website
*DVIDS Website
*States Army Website
==External articles==
;Maps of Iraq
*High resolution maps of Iraq.
;Iraqi sources
*Iraq Diaries – Iraqis writing about their experiences of war.
*The Ground Truth Project – A series of exclusive, in-depth interviews with Iraqis, aid workers, military personnel and others who have spent significant time on-the-ground in Iraq.
*What Iraqis Think – A compilation of the latest polls and blogs coming out of Iraq.
;Casualties
(additional links not found in Casualties links section)
*"; Iraqi Civilian Deaths Increase Dramatically After Invasion" Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 28 October 2004.
*"One-Day Toll in Iraq Combat Is Highest for U.S. in Months", Washington Post, 19 October 2006.
*U.S. Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Running Log.
; Combat operations related
*"Aerial Propaganda Leaflet Database". Psywar.org, 6 November 2005. (ed. Iraq War PSYOP leaflets and posters)
;News
*Electronic Iraq: Daily news and analysis from Iraq with a special focus on the Iraqi experience of war.
*News from Iraq: Aggregated news on the war, including politics and economics.
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