Ka kammala wannan magana: 'Yan Turkiyya
kewaye da kuma kewaye Janar Charles Townshend ta Birtaniya Empire sojojin wanda mamaye Kut. Rundunar Ottoman ta zabi Kogin Gharraf a matsayin wani wuri mai amfani a matsayin wani ɓangare na wannan kewaye. A lokacin kewaye da Ottomans sun kori ƙoƙarin taimako daga sojojin Anglo-Indiya a cikin Yaƙin Hanna a watan Janairun 1916 da Yaƙin Dujaila a watan Maris. Ofaya daga cikin dalilan da yasa Birtaniyya ta yanke shawarar kare Kut shine cewa ana ɗaukar tashar a matsayin hanyar da za ta yiwu ga Turkawa ko Anglo-Indian Force don jigilar sojoji tsakanin Tigris da Yufiretis da akasin haka. A ranar 20 ga Mayu 1916, Birtaniyya ta mamaye gefen dama (kudu) na Tigris har zuwa yammacin Gharraf, ta share shi daga sojojin Turkiyya, amma har yanzu ba ta sake kama Kut ba. Sun sami damar tsallakawa zuwa wancan gefen a ranar 13 ga Disamba, 1916. Turkawa sun kwashe Kut a ranar 24 ga Fabrairun 1917 kuma suka koma Bagadaza.