List of armed groups in the Iraqi Civil War

Overall conflict (2011–present)

Republic of Iraq and allies Iraqi Kurdistan and allies	Ba'ath Party loyalists, Sunni insurgents and allies	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and allies
Iraqi government forces Iraqi Armed Forces Iraqi Army Iraqi Special Operations Forces Iraqi Air Force Iraqi Navy Allied armed groups: Iraqi Turkmen Front Kata'ib al-Mosul Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas[1] Kata'ib al-Hamza Harakat Ahrar al-Mosul[2] Martyrs of Salahiddeen[3] Hezbollah[4] Iraqi Communist Party Mukhtar Army al-Jiburi tribe militias Popular Mobilization Forces (from 2014) Badr Organization Kata'ib Hezbollah Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Quwwat Sahl Ninawa[5] Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Peace Companies Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Turkmen Brigades[6] 16th Brigade Bashir Regiment Sayyid al-Shuhada 52nd Brigade Taza Regiment 92nd Brigade Talafar Regiment Brigade of Imam Hussein Babylon Brigades[7] Saraya al-Jihad[8] Kata'ib al-Imam Ali Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam Martyr Sadr Forces Liwa Ali al-Akbar Al-Qa'im Regiment Firqat al-Abbas al-Qitaliyah[9] Iran (from 2014) Iranian Air Force IRGC Air Force Syria (2013-14) Syrian Arab Army[10] Syrian Arab Air Force[11] Allied armed groups: Assyrian Forces Syriac Military Council Assyrian Democratic Movement Nineveh Plain Protection Units Qaraqosh Protection Committee Dwekh Nawsha Nineveh Plain Forces[12] Tiger Guards[13][14]  Iraqi Kurdistan Peshmerga KDP-Peshmerga PUK-Peshmerga[9] See also: Peshmerga § Structure Kaka'i Battalion[15][16] Asayîş Supported by:  Turkey[17]  Germany[18]  United States[19]  Canada[20]  Czech Republic[21]  Russia[22] CJTF–OIR (from 2014)  United States  Australia  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Jordan  Morocco  Netherlands  United Kingdom  Turkey Kurdistan Communities Union Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) People's Defence Forces Free Women's Units Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) People's Protection Units[23] Women's Protection Units[23] Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK)[24] East Kurdistan Defense Units[24] Women's Defence Forces[24] Sinjar Alliance[25] Êzîdxan Protection Force[25] Sinjar Resistance Units Êzîdxan Women's Units Asayîşa Êzîdxanê[26][27] Special Forces of Êzîdxan (YTÊ)[28] Allied armed groups: Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)[29] Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (PSDK)[9] Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Turkey (MLKP)[30] Ninewa Falcons Battalion[31]	Ba'ath Party Loyalists GMCIR[32][33] Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order 1920 Revolution Brigade Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation Al-Awda Supported by:  Jordan[34] Sunni insurgents: Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance Islamic Army in Iraq Fallujah Military Council Iraqi Hamas[34] Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance Jaish al-Mujahideen[34] Jihad and Reform Front Jaish al-Rashideen Free Iraqi Army Council of Revolutionaries of the Tribes of Anbar Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna faction[35] Jabhat al-Murabiteen[36] Jaysh al-Izza wa al-Karama[37] Kata'ib Thuwar al-Sunna[38] Al-Qaeda Ansar al-Islam faction Al-Nusra Front[39]	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Military of ISIL Ansar al-Islam (majority joined IS)

Military situation in the Iraqi Civil War as of 000000002016-11-16-0000November 16, 2016.

  Controlled by the Iraqi Government and/or Shi'ite militias

  Controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and allies

  Controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government and allies

Notes

• PKK and affiliates like the Sinjar Resistance Units^[25] are allied with the Peshmerga in the battle against ISIL, but there are tensions because the Sinjar Resistance Units aim to establish an autonomous Sinjar region within Iraqi Kurdistan, which the Kurdish Regional Government refuses.^[25]
• The Sunni insurgents of Iraq mostly attack the Iraqi Army along with ISIL, even if there are ideological and sometimes even armed conflicts between them and ISIL.^[34]
• Since October 2015 there have been ethnic conflict between Iraqi Turkmen militias in the Popular Mobilization Forces and the Peshmerga in the mainly Shia Turkmen city of Tuz Khormato.^[40]
• The Quwat Sahl Ninawa militia of the Shabak minority is allied with Shia extremist militias, but it doesn't represent all Shabaks,^[41] since there is also another Shabak militia under the control of Peshmerga commanders.^[5]
• Other than the Assyrian Christians, the Chaldean Christians, which are actually a bigger minority than the first ones, have no own militia, since their Patriarch, Louis Raphael I Sako refuses sectarian militias, because they create new tensions which could lead to further massacres between ethnic and religious groups.^[42][43]
• The two Shia militias of the Badr Organization and the Mahdi Army, loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, have clashed multiple times before the emergence of ISIL.^[44] However, due to the 2014 war, they have since cooperated under the Popular Mobilization Forces against ISIL.

See also

• List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War
• Combatants of the Iraq War

References