Operation Provide Comfort

Operation Provide Comfort/Provide Comfort II
	Part of the Iraqi no-fly zones conflict
	; Commemorative medallion issued to some participating US soldiers
Date	March 1991 – 31 December 1996
Location	Northern Iraq
Result	Establishment of Kurdish de facto autonomous region in northern Iraq
Belligerents
United States; Peshmerga; United Kingdom; Germany; France; Australia; Netherlands; Turkey; Italy; Spain; Portugal	Iraq; Support:; Belarus
Commanders and leaders
John Shalikashvili	Saddam Hussein
Casualties and losses
2 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters downed by friendly fire with 26 killed; 5 US servicemen killed and 25 wounded; 3 UK servicemen wounded; 2 Dutch servicemen wounded Total: 31 killed, 30 wounded	90 killed, 85 wounded; Many air defense systems destroyed; 1 MiG-23 Flogger shot down; 1–2 Su-22 Fitters shot down

Operation Provide Comfort and Provide Comfort II were military operations initiated by the United States and other Coalition nations of the Persian Gulf War, starting in April 1991, to defend Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and to deliver humanitarian aid to them. The no-fly zone instituted to help bring this about would become one of the main factors allowing the development of the autonomous Kurdistan Region.

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