Unified Task Force

Operation Restore Hope
Part of the Somali Civil War
Date 5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993 (6 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) Location Somalia Result United Nations operational success,[1] Somali National Alliance political victory UN Charter Chapter VII UN Resolution 794, 837
Participants
UNITAF  Australia  Bangladesh  Belgium  Botswana  Canada  Egypt  Ethiopia  France  Germany  Greece  India  Indonesia  Italy  Kuwait  Malaysia  Morocco  New Zealand  Nigeria  Norway  Pakistan  Saudi Arabia  Spain  Tunisia  Turkey  UAE  United Kingdom  United States  Zimbabwe	Somali National Alliance
Commanders and leaders
Boutros Boutros-Ghali George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton Robert B. Johnston	Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Casualties and losses
82 killed 43 killed 24 killed 6 killed 3 killed 3 killed 1 killed 1 killed[2] 1 killed ~300 wounded 153 wounded[3] 75+ wounded 36 wounded 23 wounded 3 wounded 2+ wounded 4 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.