Operation al-Shabah

Operation al-Shabah
	Part of the Syrian civil war and Iraqi insurgency
	; Location of Al Anbar and Nineveh Governorates within Iraq
Date	20 May – 14 July 2013; (1 month, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Al Anbar and Nineveh Governorates, Iraq
Result	Several militant camps and weapons caches eliminated
Belligerents
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Al-Nusra Front	Iraqi Government Iraqi Army; Iraqi Air Force; Iraqi Police;
Commanders and leaders
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; Abu Mohammad al-Julani	Nouri al-Maliki; Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari; Lieutenant-General Basim al-Tai
Strength
Unknown	8,000
Casualties and losses
43 killed, 57 captured	20 policemen killed; 16 policemen injured; 7 soldiers killed; 10 soldiers injured
	3 Syrian civilians killed; 6 Iraqi civilians killed; 4 Iraqi civilians kidnapped; 6 Iraqi civilians injured

Operation al-Shabah (Arabic: عملية الشبح, lit. 'Operation Phantom') was launched in May 2013 by the Iraqi Army, with the stated aim of severing contact between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the al-Nusra Front in Syria by clearing militants from the border area with Syria and Jordan.