Wikipedia's first sentence called it “final major military operation of the iraqi civil war”. Today it says “final military operation of the 2013–2017 war in iraq”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Abdel Emir Yarallah Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Units involved Iraqi pro-government forces Iraqi security forces Armed Forces Federal Police Local Sunni tribes Popular Mobilisation Forces Military of the Islamic State Strength Unknown 1,500 (CJTF-OIR estimate) Casualties and losses Unknown Unknown The 2017 Western Iraq campaign was the final major military operation of the 2013–2017 war in Iraq , in the western province of Anbar , and on the border with Syria , with the goal of completely expelling IS forces from their last strongholds in Iraq. The offensive followed the Hawija offensive by the Iraqi Government, and was also concurrent with several major offensives in Syria: the Syrian Democratic Forces ' Deir ez-Zor offensive , and the Syrian Government's Battle of Deir ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing .
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1296669370.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Abdul Amir Yarallah Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Units involved Iraqi pro-government forces Iraqi security forces Armed Forces Federal Police Local Sunni tribes Popular Mobilisation Forces Military of ISIL Strength Unknown 1,500 (CJTF-OIR estimate) Casualties and losses Unknown Unknown The 2017 Western Iraq campaign was the final major military operation of the Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) , in the western province of Anbar , and on the border with Syria , with the goal of completely expelling ISIL forces from their last strongholds in Iraq. The offensive followed the Hawija offensive by the Iraqi Government, and was also concurrent with several major offensives in Syria: the Syrian Democratic Forces ' Deir ez-Zor offensive , and the Syrian Government's Battle of Deir ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 964707747.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Abdel Emir Yarallah Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Units involved Iraqi pro-government forces Iraqi security forces Armed Forces Federal Police Local Sunni tribes Popular Mobilisation Forces Military of ISIL Strength Unknown 1,500 (CJTF-OIR estimate) Casualties and losses Unknown Unknown The 2017 Western Iraq campaign was the final major military operation of the 2013–2017 war in Iraq , in the western province of Anbar , and on the border with Syria , with the goal of completely expelling ISIL forces from their last strongholds in Iraq. The offensive followed the Hawija offensive by the Iraqi Government, and was also concurrent with several major offensives in Syria: the Syrian Democratic Forces ' Deir ez-Zor offensive , and the Syrian Government's Battle of Deir ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1143405645.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “final major military operation of the iraqi civil war”. Today it says “final military operation of the 2013–2017 war in iraq”. Read the current article and compare.
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2020, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
final major military operation of the iraqi civil war
Now
final military operation of the 2013–2017 war in iraq
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
