Counterinsurgency: An effort to disrupt insurgent activity and to root out their weapons stores along the Euphrates River.

15-27 January 2006. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/2 and Iraqi army soldiers conducted Operation Koa Canyon along the Western Euphrates River Valley in Iraq. The operation’s aim was to disrupt insurgent activities and to root out their weapons caches. Forty-five weapons caches were uncovered and destroyed. There were no coalition casualties.