Sinjar Alliance

An unofficial flag used by some Yazidis

A flag used by the Yazidi militia HPÊ

The Sinjar Alliance is an umbrella organization of three Yazidi militias: the Protection Force of Sinjar, the Sinjar Resistance Units, and the Êzidxan Women's Units. The last two militias are linked to the PKK.

The alliance was created in November 2015 and aims to establish democratic confederalism and a Yazidi autonomous region within the Kurdish Regional Government. There are tensions between the Sinjar Alliance and the Kurdish Regional Government because the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani aims to control all of Sinjar and demands the withdrawal of PKK-linked militias.^[1]

Armed groups in the Iraq War and the Iraqi Civil War

Ba'athists

Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
Fedayeen Saddam
General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries
Al-Awda
General Command of the Armed Forces, Resistance and Liberation in Iraq
Popular Army
New Return
Patriotic Front
Political Media Organ of the Ba'ath Party
Popular Resistance for the Liberation of Iraq
Al-Abud Network

Iraqi Armed Forces
and Police

Iraqi Army
Iraqi Air Force
Iraqi Police
- Iraqi Police Service
- National Police
- Supporting Forces
Facilities Protection Service

Insurgents

Nationalist Salafis	Mujahideen Army Mujahideen Battalions of the Salafi Group of Iraq Islamic Salafist Boy Scout Battalions Mohammad's Army

Salafi Jihadists	Ansar al-Islam Black Banner Organization Abu Theeb's group Jaish Abi Baker's group Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Mujahideen Shura Council Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad Wakefulness and Holy War

Militias and others

Shia militias	Mahdi Army Abu Deraa's Mahdi Army faction Badr Organization Sheibani Network Soldiers of Heaven Special Groups (Iraq) Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Promised Day Brigade Kata'ib Hezbollah

Sunni militias	Awakening groups 1920 Revolution Brigade Jaish al-Rashideen Islamic Army in Iraq Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance Hamas of Iraq

Kurdish militias	Peshmerga Kurdistan Workers' Party Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Party of Free Life of Kurdistan

Minority militias	Qaraqosh Protection Committee Malik Al-Tawus Troop Sinjar Alliance

References

↑ "From survival to diaspora: the Yazidis in North Kurdistan". Nationalia. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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Sinjar Alliance

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