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The Iraqi resistance is composed of over a dozen major insurgent organizations and countless smaller cells. It can be subdivided into three main ideological strands: Ba'athism, nationalism, and Islamism.



The Ba'athists are composed of former Ba'ath Party officials, the Fedayeen Saddam, and some former agents of the Iraqi intelligence and security services. Their goal, at least before the capture of Saddam Hussein, was the restoration of the former Ba'athist regime to power.



The nationalists are composed of former members of the Iraqi military as well as some ordinary Iraqis. Their reasons for opposing the occupation vary between a rejection of the foreign presence as a matter of principle to U.S failure to restore security and basic services or quickly hand over power. Many Iraqis who have had relatives killed by American soldiers may also be involved in the nationalist resistance as part of the Iraqi code of tribal revenge. Beyond the expulsion of U.S troops from Iraq, there is no coherent political goal being pursued by the Iraqi guerillas fighting under the banner of nationalism.

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With this week marking the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, thousands of people from more than a dozen countries on Sunday will join foreign policy experts and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a live video call to discuss ongoing conflicts, soaring military tensions across the globe, and "how we ...
Operation Fudge Documentation and Equivocate Endlessly Before Destabilizing a Key Part of the World Causing Ongoing Chaos a Decade and a Half Down the Line (not the official title) kicked off on 20 March 2003, lasting until the start of May before turning into the general Iraq War. This then dragged on ...

Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – An Iraqi lawmaker has warned of plots to expand U.S. military bases in Iraq, stressing that his country is no longer in need of ... In recent weeks, suspected Islamic State insurgents have carried out several attacks targeting security forces in the areas north-west of Kirkuk.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi troops killed on Sunday seven Islamic State (IS) militants while trying to infiltrate into al-Ba'aj district in Nineveh province, a military ... The Islamic State group appeared on the international scene in 2014 when it seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, declaring the ...
Iraqi troops reinforced their presence in Kirkuk and launched operations to purge the province from remaining militant cells following an ambush set up by the militants in mid February left 27 mobilization members dead mid February. Iraq declared victory over Islamic State militants and the recapture of all of ...
TIKRIT, Iraq, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed at least seven Islamic State (IS) militants in clashes at a village near the city of Shirqat in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said. The clashes erupted at dawn when about 10 IS militants attacked a ...

Reasserting government control over such a large rural area has proved to be beyond the capabilities of Iraqi forces, which remain stretched after three years of concerted fighting against insurgents. "The militants are regrouping and retraining to carry out attacks on security forces in the region," Sarhad ...
On Wednesday, five Iraqi security personnel were killed and wounded in an armed attack launched by IS members, south of Balad town in Salahuddin. Four IS members were killed as Iraqi army, backed by PMFs, repelled an infiltration attempt into Shirqat via western borders. Thousands of IS militants as ...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two militants were killed as Iraqi troops launched an airstrike, north of Baghdad on Wednesday. A statement by Baghdad Operations Command said, “depending on accurate information gathered by the intelligence, security troops managed to follow three gunmen in al-Baghdadi ...
BAGHDAD, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi government-backed paramilitary Hashd Shaabi members on Wednesday killed 10 Islamic State (IS) militants near the town of Hawijah in Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk, the Iraqi military said. Acting on intelligence tips, paramilitary Hashd Shaabi fighters carried ...

KIRKUK, Iraq (AA) – Eleven Daesh militants were killed in an Iraqi security operation in the northern Kirkuk province on Thursday, according to a local police officer. The militants were intercepted at a point close to the Riyad town of Kirkuk as a result of some intelligence obtained, Police Capt. Muntazar ...
Last moth, Kuwait hosted an international donors conference for the reconstruction of Iraq after the damage sustained during the war against Islamic State militants since 2014. At the end of the conference, Iraq had acquired nearly USD30 billion, much less than a previously projected USD100 billion. Iraqi ...
Six Daesh militants were killed in an Iraqi security operation in the northern Kirkuk province on Saturday, according to a local police officer. The militants were hiding ... Last December, officials in Baghdad had declared that Daesh's military presence in Iraq had been all but dismantled. However, it appears ...
Now, many of Iraq's tanks are immobilized for want of maintenance, potentially jeopardizing the country's ongoing campaign against Islamic State militants. While the Islamic State has retreated from large swaths of Iraq it once controlled, mobile groups of militants continue to stage attacks on Iraqi troops ...
The Turkish General Staff said in a statement on March 1 that four Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have been “neutralized” in air strikes, launched after the militants opened fire at military posts. The authorities use the word “neutralized” in statements to imply that the militants in question either ...
The Islamic State (IS) group on Saturday killed two policemen guarding a northern Iraqi oil field, in a first attack on energy facilities since militants were driven from the region's towns, a security source said. "A large number of IS terrorists attacked a post of the oil police force near well 43 in the Khabbaz oil ...
Why We Need to Remember the Iraq War—As Well as the Global Resistance to It .... We need to remember that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, perhaps over 1 million, died in the US war and occupation—and that doesn't even count the hundreds of thousands already dead from the 12 years of ...
The Iraqi army and the Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces on Wednesday started a major offensive against armed militants in the country's northeastern region near the border with Iran. Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement the operation was aimed at cracking down on remaining Islamic ...
Speaking to Alghad Press news website, Ali al-Husseini, a spokesman for al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) northern axis, said “During a military operation to hunt for Islamic State militants in Kirkuk, paramilitary troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi found a hideout that was used by the militant ...


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