The interest of Tiglath-Pileser's military operations attaches especially to his campaigns in Babylonia and in Syria, where he is brought into contact with persons otherwise known to us.

His other wars are comparatively unimportant.

Under these circumstances it is proposed to consider in detail only the Babylonian and Syrian expeditions, and to dismiss the others with a few general remarks on the results which were accomplished by them.
Tiglath-Pileser's expeditions against Babylon were in his first and in his fifteenth years, B.C.745 and 731.

No sooner did he find himself settled upon the throne, than he levied an army, and marched against Southern Mesopotamia, which appears to have been in a divided and unsettled condition.

According to the Canon of Ptolemy, Nabonassar then ruled in Babylon.