Operation Viking Hammer
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<entity_0> was an unconventional warfare operation during the <entity_3> which took place in northern <entity_6>, commonly known as <entity_1>. From 2001 to <entity_7>, they fought against Kurdish forces in northern <entity_6>, carving out an enclave around the town of <entity_4> which they placed under their control. After Turkey had denied the U.S. 4th Infantry Division passage through their borders, the burden of carrying out the northern front of the war in <entity_6> fell on an ad hoc coalition of Americans to include CIA Special Activities Division (SAD) paramilitary operations officers, Special Forces soldiers from 10th SFG, U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment and airborne units that parachuted into northern <entity_6> (however, the 173rd did not take part in <entity_0>), and Kurdish Peshmerga forces of the Patriotic Union of <entity_2> and Kurdish Democratic Party. On the eve of the <entity_5>, the Islamic Group of <entity_2>, which had been allied with Ansar al-Islam, surrendered after having suffered 100 men killed in the March 21 strikes. <entity_0> had eliminated Ansar al-Islam's presence in northern <entity_6>, and allowed Kurdish units to join the fight against Iraqi troops in northern <entity_6>. In April 2019, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mick Mulroy praised the role of Kurdish forces in “<entity_0>,” carried out by the Peshmerga and a small group of special US forces in the earliest stages of the <entity_7> <entity_6> war.
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