Operation Restore Hope | |||||||||||
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Part of the Somali Civil War | |||||||||||
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Participants | |||||||||||
Somali National Alliance | |||||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||||
Mohamed Farrah Aidid | |||||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||||
82 killed
~300 wounded
| Several thousand both civilians and military insurgents (per Aidid) |
The Unified Task Force (UNITAF) was a United States-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia from 5 December 1992 until 4 May 1993. A United States initiative (code-named Operation Restore Hope), UNITAF was charged with carrying out United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 to create a protected environment for conducting humanitarian operations in the southern half of the country.