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.

Operation Northern Lights
Part of the Post-invasion Iraq

Operation Northern Lights.
Date22 March 2006 -
Location
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

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