The siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British Army garrison...

campaign in Mesopotamia. His troops were besieged and captured at the Siege of Kut (December 1915 - April 1916), which was possibly the worst defeat suffered...

Ctesiphon Siege of Kut Attempts to Relieve Kut: Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad Battle of the Wadi Battle of Hanna Battle of Dujaila Redoubt First Battle of Kut Second...

[dubious – discuss] The other major siege outside Europe during the First World War was in Mesopotamia, at the siege of Kut. After a failed attempt to move...

command of Charles Townshend in the Mesopotamian Campaign which led to the siege of Kut has been the object of much controversy. Townshend successfully led his...

Naval Sieges See also A chronological list of sieges follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum...

and the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. After the surrender of the Kut garrison on 29 April 1916, the British Army in Mesopotamia underwent a major...

The siege of Przemyśl was the longest siege in Europe during the First World War. The siege was a crushing defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Army by the...

Public opposition to Ukrainian involvement increased following the Battle of Kut [uk] in 2004, which led to a reassessment of Ukrainian activities in Iraq...

failures. Super-heavy siege guns arrived and destroyed the forts one by one; the last fort surrendered on 16 August. The siege of Liège may have delayed...