Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)

Iraqi insurgency;
	Part of the Iraqi conflict (2003–present)
	; U.S. and Kuwaiti troops unite to close the gate between Kuwait and Iraq after the last military convoy passed through on Dec. 18, 2011, signaling the end of Operation New Dawn and the beginning of the post-U.S. phase of the insurgency
Date	18 December 2011 – 30 December 2013; (2 years, 1 week and 5 days)
Location	Iraq (mostly central and northern, including Baghdad)
Result	Escalation of the insurgency, beginning of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) Significant increase in violence since the U.S. withdrawal, with an increasing number of insurgent large-scale attacks and assaults; Resurgence of ISI, later transforming to ISIL;
Belligerents
Sunni insurgent factions:; Al-Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL since April 2013); ; Ba'ath Party Loyalists Islamic Army in Iraq; Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order; Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation; Other Sunni insurgents and militia;	Iraqi Government Security forces; Private security contractors; Iraqi Kurdistan Peshmerga; Asayish; CTG Kurdistan; Parastin u Zanyari; Sons of Iraq; Supported by:; United States
Commanders and leaders
Abu Dua; Abu Mohammad al-Adnani; Ishmael Jubouri Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri; Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed	Jalal Talabani; Masoud Barzani; Nouri al-Maliki; Babaker Zebari; Ahmed Abu Risha
Strength
Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation: 2,000–3,000; Islamic Army in Iraq: 10,400 (2007) Al-Qaeda: 1,000–2,000; JRTN: 1,500-5,000	Iraqi Security Forces; 600,000 (300,000 Army and 300,000 Police); Awakening Council militias – 30,000; Contractors ~7,000
Casualties and losses
919+ insurgents killed, 3,504 arrested	1,156 policemen and 949 soldiers killed; 2,286 policemen and 1,759 soldiers wounded
	6,746 civilians killed and 10,511 wounded; 9,770 people killed in total; (Government figures, December 2011 – December 2013); 14,855 civilians killed; (Iraq body count figures, December 2011 – December 2013)

The Iraqi insurgency was an insurgency that began in late 2011 after the end of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, resulting in violent conflict with the central government, as well as low-level sectarian violence among Iraq's religious groups.

The insurgency was a direct continuation of events following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Sunni militant groups stepped up attacks targeting the country's majority Shia population to undermine confidence in the Shia-led government and its efforts to protect people without coalition assistance. Many Sunni factions stood against the Syrian government, which Shia groups moved to support, and numerous members of both sects also crossed the border to fight in Syria.

In 2014, the insurgency escalated dramatically following the conquest of Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Qutbi-Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. ISIL gained global prominence in early 2014 when it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in its Western Iraq offensive, followed by its capture of Mosul and the Sinjar massacre, thereby merging the new conflict with the Syrian Civil War, into a new, far deadlier conflict.

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