| Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) |
| Part of the Arab Winter and the spillover of the Syrian Civil War
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Military situation in Iraq on 16 May 2017
For a map of the current military situation of Iraqi insurgency, see . |
| Date |
1 January 2014 – present
(3 years, 5 months) |
| Location |
Iraq |
| Status |
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ISIL forces seize at least 70% of Anbar province, including the cities of Fallujah,Al Qaim,Abu Ghraib and half of Ramadi during the Anbar campaign
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Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh province, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala provinces, seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive
- ISIL captures Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar becomes a contested city in December 2014
- ISF expel ISIL from Diyala in February 2015, and recapture Tikrit in April 2015
- ISIL fully captures Ramadi in May 2015, leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar
- Peshmerga recapture Sinjar in November 2015, and ISF recapture Ramadi in February 2016, Hīt in April 2016 and Fallujah in June 2016
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| Main belligerents |
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 Republic of Iraq
 Iran
 Iraqi Kurdistan
 TEV-DEM
 PKK
 PJAK
 Sinjar Alliance
 Assyrian forces
 United States
 France
 United Kingdom
 Belgium
 Netherlands
 Australia
 Jordan
 Denmark
 Morocco
 Hezbollah
 Canada (2014–15)
 Syria (2014)
 Iraqi Turkmen Front
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 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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| Commanders and leaders |
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Haider Al-Abadi (2014–present)
Fuad Masum (2014–present)
Nouri al-Maliki (2014–2015)
Babaker Shawkat B. Zebari (2014–2015)
Ahmad Abu Risha (2014–present)
 Muqtada al-Sadr
Qais al-Khazali
Akram al-Kabi
 Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani
 Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Wathiq al-Battat (POW)
Massoud Barzani
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
(Leader of ISIL)
Abu Fatima al-Jaheishi
(Deputy leader in Iraq)
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| Strength |
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Iraqi Security Forces
600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police)
Awakening Council militias - 30,000
Contractors ~7,000
US Forces: 5,000
Canadian Forces: 600
French Forces: 500
British Forces: 500
Popular Mobilization Forces: 60,000-90,000
- Badr Brigade: 10,000
- Turkmen Brigades: 30,000
Peshmerga: 200,000 |
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant:
 Ba'ath Party Loyalists
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| Casualties and losses |
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Iraqi security forces and militias:
16,457 killed and 13,399 wounded
Peshmerga fighters:
1,668 killed, 9,725 wounded and 60 missing or captured
IRGC militia:
38 killed
 CJTF–OIR:
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39 killed (30 non-hostile), 34 wounded
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1 killed (non-hostile)
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1 killed
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 1 dead
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ISIL fighters:
22,632+ killed and 5,841 captured |
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18,802 civilians killed and 36,245 wounded
(UN figures, January 2014 – October 2015)
37,497 civilians killed
(Iraq body count figures, January 2014 – February 2016)
4,525,968 displaced (IOM Iraq figures, January 2014 – February 2017)
Total deaths: 53,361–72,056
(as of February 2016)
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a Numbers include Peshmerga killed and wounded, and do not include ISF killed and wounded in the Al Anbar Governorate
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Massoud Barzani
ISIL fighters:
TEV-DEM
PKK
PJAK
Sinjar Alliance
Assyrian forces