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 Supported by:  United States Popular Mobilization Forces Badr Organization Kata'ib Hezbollah Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces Peace Companies Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Supported by: Iran Hezbollah Iraqi Turkmen Front Supported by:  Turkey[1] CJTF–OIR  United States  Australia  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Jordan  Morocco  Netherlands  United Kingdom  Turkey  Iran Iranian Air Force IRGC Air Force  Syria Syrian Arab Army[2] Syrian Arab Air Force[3]	Iraqi Kurdistan Peshmerga Asayîş Supported by:  Turkey[4]  Germany[5]  United States[6]  Canada[7]  Czech Republic[8] Allied armed groups: Assyrian Forces Syriac Military Council Nineveh Plain Protection Units Qaraqosh Protection Committee Dwekh Nawsha Sinjar Alliance[9] Sinjar Resistance Units Êzîdxan Women's Units Êzîdxan Protection Force[9] Kurdistan Workers Party People's Defence Forces Free Women's Units Rojava People's Protection Units[10] Women's Protection Units[10] Party of Free Life of Kurdistan[11] East Kurdistan Defense Units[11] Women's Defence Forces[11] CJTF–OIR  United States  Australia  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Jordan  Morocco  Netherlands  United Kingdom  Turkey	Ba'ath Party Loyalists GMCIR[12][13] Naqshbandi Army 1920 Revolution Brigade Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation Supported by:  Jordan[14] Sunni insurgents: Islamic Army in Iraq Fallujah Military Council Iraqi Hamas[14] Free Iraqi Army Jihad and Reform Front Jaish al-Rashideen Council of Revolutionaries of the Tribes of Anbar Jaish al-Mujahideen[14]	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Military of ISIL Ansar al-Islam (majority joined IS) Al-Qaeda Ansar al-Islam (splinter group, majority joined IS) Ansar al-Sunna[14] Al-Nusra Front (alleged)[15]

Military situation in the Iraqi Civil War as of May 1, 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^[9] 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.^[9]
• 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.^[14]
• 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.^[16]

Spillover

Syria

Syrian government and allies	Syrian opposition and allies Al-Qaeda and allies	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Syrian government Syrian Armed Forces National Defence Forces Popular Mobilization Forces Badr Organization Kata'ib Hezbollah Peace Companies Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada Kata'ib al-Imam Ali Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Hezbollah  Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade Liwa Fatemiyoun	Syrian opposition Free Syrian Army Islamic Front Al-Qaeda Al-Nusra Front Jund al-Aqsa Turkistan Islamic Party Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Jabhat Ansar al-Din	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Military of ISIL

See also

• List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War

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