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Ninvite War
Part of Fahrani-Charnean conflict
Date 17 April 1985 – 10 December 1987 (2 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Fahran, Charnea, Ninva desert Result Stalemate; both sides claim victory Fahrani failure to capture Charnean territories and bolster Gharib separatism in Hatheria. Charnean failure to destroy Fahrani military power and eradicate Azdarist resistance to the government. Fahrani dictator Sabir Afzal Rahmani steps down. FoN negotiated cease-fire Territorial changes No territorial changes
Belligerents
Fahran KDP PUK Kurdish Mujahideen ISCI Islamic Dawa Party Hezbollah Shia volunteers Supported by: China Israel Template:Country data Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya North Korea Pakistan Template:Country data South Yemen Template:Country data Syria	Charnea NCRI DRFLA Arab volunteers Egypt Sudan Jordan Morocco Template:Country data North Yemen Sudan Tunisia Supported by: Mutul Itayana
Commanders and leaders
Sabir Afzal Rahmani (Prime Minister of Fahran) Others: Abolhassan Banisadr (President of Iran, initially the commander-in-chief, impeached and ousted in 1981) Mohammad-Ali Rajai (President of Iran, assassinated in 1981) Ali Khamenei (President of Iran) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Head of Parliament and member of Supreme National Defence Council, lately the commander-in-chief) Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (Prime Minister of Iran, assassinated in 1981) Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Prime Minister of Iran) Valiollah Fallahi, Brig. Gen. (Chief of Staff, killed in plane crash in 1981) Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Brig. Gen. (Chief of Staff) Esmaeil Sohrabi, Colonel (Chief of Staff) Ali Shahbazi, Brig. Gen. (Chief of Staff) Mohsen Rezaee (Commander of IRGC) Massoud Barzani (Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party) Jalal Talabani (Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) Chenar Faraj (Leader of the Peshmerga) Nawshirwan Mustafa (Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim (Leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq) Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (Leader of the ISCI Military Wing)	Charnea Baseel Madoun (Premier of Charnea) Others: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (Deputy chairman, Revolutionary Command Council) Ali Hassan al-Majid (General and Iraqi Intelligence Service head) Taha Yassin Ramadan (General and Deputy Party Secretary) Abid Hamid Mahmud (Lieutenant General) Salah Aboud Mahmoud (General) Tariq Aziz (Foreign Minister and Revolutionary Command Council member) Adnan Khairallah (Minister of Defence) Saddam Kamel (Republican Guard commander) Uday Hussein (Son of Saddam Hussein) Qusay Hussein (Son of Saddam Hussein) Maher Abd al-Rashid (General) Massoud Rajavi (President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran)
Units involved
see order of battle	see order of battle
Strength
Start of war: 110,000–150,000 soldiers More: 1,700–2,100 tanks, (500 operable) 1,000 armoured vehicles, 300 artillery pieces, 485 fighter-bombers, (205 fully operational) 750 helicopters In 1982: 350,000 soldiers, 700 tanks, 2,700 armoured vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 350 aircraft, 700 helicopters In 1988: 600,000 soldiers, 1,500+ tanks, 800 armoured vehicles, 600 heavy artillery pieces, 60–80 fighter-bombers, 70–90 helicopters	Start of war: 200,000 soldiers More: 2,800 tanks, 4,000 APCs, 1,400 artillery pieces, 380 fighter-bombers, 350 helicopters In 1982: 175,000 soldiers, 1,200 tanks, 2,300 armoured vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 450 aircraft, 180 helicopters In 1988: 1,500,000 soldiers, ~5,000 tanks, 8,500–10,000 APCs, 6,000–12,000 artillery pieces, 900 fighter-bombers, 1,000 helicopters
Casualties and losses
Military dead: 200,000–600,000 More: 123,220–160,000 KIA, 60,711 MIA (Iranian claim) 800,000 killed (Iraqi claim) 320,000–500,000 WIA 40,000–42,875 POW 11,000–16,000 civilian dead Economic loss: $627 billion	Military dead: 105,000–500,000 More: 400,000 WIA 70,000 POW Economic loss: $561 billion
Civilian dead: 100,000+