Free Iraqi Army

Free Iraqi Army
الجيش العراقي الحر Participant in the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi insurgency
Old Flag of Iraq
Active	9 November 2012 – August 2014
Ideology	Sunni Islamism
Area of operations	Iraq Al Anbar Governorate Nineveh Governorate
Strength	2,500+
Allies	Naqshbandi Army SCJL MCIR Anbar Tribal Councils Free Syrian Army
Opponents	Iraqi government Iraqi Army Iraqi Air Force Special Operations Forces Special Groups IRGC Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Badr Brigades Kata'ib Hezbollah Mukhtar Army
Battles and wars	Iraqi insurgency
Website	https://www.facebook.com/freeiraqiarmypage

Iraq

Naqshbandi Army
SCJL

MCIR
Anbar Tribal Councils

Iraqi government

Special Groups

The Free Iraqi Army (Arabic: الجيش العراقي الحر‎‎, Al-Jayš Al-‘Irāqī Al-Ḥurr, FIA) was a Sunni rebel group formed in the western Sunni-majority provinces of Iraq from Iraqi supporters of the Free Syrian Army rebels fighting in the Syrian Civil War. The group aimed to overthrow the Shia-dominated government of Iraq, believing that they would gain support in this from Syria should the rebels be successful in overthrowing Bashar al-Assad. An Iraqi counterterror spokesman denied this, saying that the name is merely being used by al-Qaeda in Iraq to "attract the support of the Iraqi Sunnis by making use of the strife going on in Syria."

Aside from Anbar Province, the FIA reportedly had a presence in Fallujah, along the Syrian border near the town of Al-Qaim, and in Mosul in the north of Iraq. A recruiting commander for the group told a reporter from The Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon that the group was opposed to both Al-Qaeda in Iraq and their opponents in the Sahwa militia. The same commander claimed that the group received financial support from cross-border tribal extensions and Sunni sympathizers in the Persian gulf states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

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