Urmia clashes

Urmia clashes
	Part of the occupation of Northwestern Iran of the Persian campaign (World War I)
	; Agha Petros (with white Cossack hat) waiting for the Persian mullah's white flag's of surrender
Date	February 1918
Location	Urmia, Persia
Result	Assyrian victory Assyrian control of the city established; Muslims surrender;
Belligerents
Assyrian volunteers Tyari; Armenian fedayi;	Qajar Iran Tribes of Karadagh; Local Persians; Local Azerbaijanis; Local Kurds; Local Turks;
Commanders and leaders
Agha Petros; Mar Benyamin Shimun; Malik Khoshaba; Andranik Ozanian;	Arshad-el-Moolk ; Moosa Agha Sadir; Irshad Homayun; Haji Samad; Riza Khan †;
Strength
A few hundred	Around 2,000+
Casualties and losses
Around 80 killed	1,000+ killed

The Urmia clashes (February 1918) or the Urmia revolt was a series of clashes and an Islamist uprising in the city of Urmia between the Assyrian Volunteers, led by Agha Petros and Malik Khoshaba, against the city mayor Irshad Homayun and his supporters, including General Arshad el Moolk. This was caused by the Russian withdrawal from Qajar Iran due to the Russian Revolution. The motive for the uprising was to exterminate the Christian authority in the region.