Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)

Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
	Part of the Iraqi conflict
	; Fighters of a self-defense group in northeastern Iraq in June 2018. IS still has a presence in remote areas of the country, often attacking small villages and forcing the locals to fight or flee.
Date	9 December 2017 – present; (6 years, 4 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	Iraq
Status	Ongoing as a hit-and-run campaign
Belligerents
Iraq Iraqi Federal Police; Iraqi Armed Forces Special Operations Forces (SOF); Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF); ; Pro-Government Tribes (ar); Islamic Resistance in Iraq; Rojava (cross-border cooperation since May 2018); Supported by:; CJTF-OIR (until 2021); United States; United Kingdom; France; Kurdistan Region Peshmerga; Supported by:; Netherlands	Islamic State; White Flags
Commanders and leaders
Abdul Latif Rashid; (Commander in Chief); Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani; (General Commander); Abdel Emir Yarallah; (Chief of the General Staff); Abdul Amir al-Shammari; (Minister of Interior); Thabit Al Abassi; (Minister of Defence); Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi; (Counter Terrorism Service); Falih Alfayyadh; Qais Khazali; Hadi al-Amiri; Emmanuel Macron; Rishi Sunak; Joe Biden; Donald Trump; Lt. Gen. Paul LaCamera Former Fuad Masum ; Barham Salih ; Haider al-Abadi ; Adil Abdul-Mahdi ; Mustafa Al-Kadhimi ; Qasim al-Araji ; Yassin al-Yasiri ; Othman al-Ghanmi ; Erfan al-Hiyali ; Najah al-Shammari ; Juma Inad ; Fadhil Barwari ; Talib Shaghati ; Killed: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis † (Popular Mobilization Forces commander, killed in American Airstrike); Lt. Col. Zaid Jassim Al-Shammari (Commander of 3rd Infantry Regiment) ; Abu Sadiq al-Khashkhashi † (commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces's 9th brigade) ; Maj. Gen. Ali Khalifa † (commander of the PMF) ; Lt. Col. Haidar Adel Mohammad (Senior Iraqi Army Commander) † ; Col. Yasser al-Jourani ; Nechirvan Barzani; Masoud Barzani; Sirwan Barzani; Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa	Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Leader of IS); Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari (Spokesmen) ; Abu Fatima al-Jaheishi; Abu Jandal al-Masri ; Abu Yusaf; Abu Muhammad al-Jazrawi; Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jaburi (POW); Faysal Ahmad Ali al-Zahrani; Zulfi Hoxha †; Bajro Ikanović †; Ahlam al-Nasr ; Hiwa Chor; Assi al-Qawali (POW) Killed: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi † (Former IS leader, killed in Syria); Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † (killed in Syria); Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † (killed in Syria); Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi †; Abu Ahmad al-Alwani † (killed in Iraq); Abu Yasser al-Issawi † (Former deputy leader of IS); Abu Hamza al-Qurashi † (Killed in Syria); Abu Obeida Baghdad (POW) ; Omar Jawad al-Mashhadani † (Chief IS suicide attack organiser in Baghdad); Muthanna Shataran al-Marawi † (IS military commander in charge of the Al-Rutba region; Osama al-Mulla † (IS's deputy security chief); 'Hawi the Great' † (High ranking IS Emir);
Units involved
Iraq Iraqi Armed Forces Iraqi Army; Iraqi Special Operations Forces; Iraqi Air Force; Popular Mobilization Forces Badr Organization; 21st Brigade; Liwa Ali al-Akbar; ; ; Iraqi Federal Police; Islamic Resistance in Iraq Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq; Kata'ib Hezbollah; ; Kurdistan Region Peshmerga;	Islamic State Military of ISIS;
Strength
Iraq:; 530,000 personnel (including paramilitary forces)	Islamic State: 5,000–7,000 (per UN, 2023, in Iraq and Syria); 400–500 (per Iraq, 2023)
Casualties and losses
Unknown; 8 killed, 2 HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters crashed	6,266 killed (as of December 2023) (Iraqi government claim)

The Islamic State insurgency in Iraq is an ongoing low-intensity insurgency that began in 2017 after the Islamic State (IS) lost its territorial control in the War in Iraq, during which IS and allied White Flags fought the Iraqi military (largely backed by the United States, United Kingdom and other countries conducting airstrikes against IS) and allied paramilitary forces (largely backed by Iran).

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