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-{{Infobox military conflict
-| conflict = Insurgency in Iraq after US withdrawal
-| partof   = [[Iraq War]]
-| image    =
-| caption  =
-| date     = [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq|December 2011]] - present
-| place    = [[Iraq]] (mostly central, including [[Baghdad]])
-| result   =  ongoing
-| combatant1 = '''Sunni factions:'''<br>
-{{flagicon image|Flag of The Islamic State of Iraq.jpg}} [[Islamic State of Iraq]]<br />
-{{flag|al-Qaeda}} [[al-Qaeda in Iraq]]<br />
-{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ba'ath Party.png}} [[Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-led faction)|Iraqi Ba'ath Party]] [[Iraqi Insurgency#Ba'athists|Loyalists]]<br/>
-[[Ansar al-Sunna]]<br/>
-[[Islamic Army of Iraq]] <br />
-[[Arab tribes in Iraq|Sunni tribes]]<br />
-[[Iraqi insurgency#Sunni Islamist|Other Sunni insurgents and militia]]
-| combatant2 = '''Shi'a factions:'''<br />
-[[Mahdi Army]] <small>(and [[Special Groups (Iraq)|Special Groups]])</small><br />
-[[Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq]]<br />
-[[Kata'ib Hezbollah]]<br />
-[[Promised Day Brigades]]<br />
-[[Badr Brigades]]<br />
-Rogue elements among the Iraqi security forces<br />
-[[Soldiers of Heaven]]<br />
-[[Arab tribes in Iraq|Shia tribes]]<br />
-[[Private militias in Iraq|Other militias]]
-| combatant3 = '''Public security:<br />'''
-{{Flagicon|Iraq}} [[Iraqi security forces]]<br />
-[[Private Security Contractors]]<br />
-{{Flagicon|Kurdistan}} [[Peshmerga]]<br/>
-| commander1 = [[Ishmael Jubouri]]
-| commander2 = [[Muqtada al-Sadr]]
-| commander3 = {{Flagicon|Iraq}}{{Flagicon|Kurdistan}} [[Jalal Talabani]]<br />
-{{Flagicon|Iraq}} [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]<br />
-{{Flagicon|Iraq}} [[Nouri al-Maliki]]<br />
-{{Flagicon|Kurdistan}} [[Massoud Barzani]]<br />
-[[Ahmad Abu Risha]]
-| strength1   =
-| strength2   =
-| strength3   = [[Private military company|Contractors]] ~7,000<ref name=LATcontractors>[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-private4jul04,0,5419234,full.story "Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq"]. By T. Christian Miller. ''[[Los Angeles Times]].'' July 4, 2007.</ref><ref name=contractorsguardian>[http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660198347,00.html "Contractor deaths add up in Iraq"]. By Michelle Roberts. ''[[Deseret Morning News]].'' Feb. 24, 2007.</ref><br />'''Iraqi Security Forces'''<br />618,000 (805,269  [[New Iraqi Army|Army]] and 348,000 [[Iraqi Police|Police]])<ref>Collins, C. (August 19, 2007) [http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/19049.html "U.S. says Iranians train Iraqi insurgents,"] ''McClatchy Newspapers''</ref><br />[[Awakening movements in Iraq|Awakening Council]] militias - 103,000<ref>[http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,159357,00.html A Dark Side to Iraq 'Awakening' Groups<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
-| casualties1 =
-| casualties2 =
-| casualties3 =
-| notes       = '''Total: hundreds killed'''
-| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Iraq War}}
-}}
-The '''Iraqi insurgency after US withdrawal''' relates to the terror activities engaged by Iraqi, primarily radical Sunni, insurgent groups against the central government and the warfare between various factions within Iraq, in the aftermath of the US withdrawal. The events of violence succeeded the previous insurgency in Iraq, prior to December 2011, but showed different patterns.
-==Timeline==
-==Insurgent groups==
-Because of its clandestine nature, the exact composition of the Iraqi insurgency is difficult to determine, but the main groupings are:
-*[[Ba'ath party|Ba'athists]], the supporters of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s former administration including army or intelligence officers, whose ideology is a variant of [[Pan-Arabism]].
-*[[Iraqi nationalism|Iraqi nationalist]]s, Iraqis who believe in a strong version of Iraqi [[self-determination]]. These policies may not necessarily espouse a [[Pan-Arab]] ideology, but rather advocate the country's [[territorial integrity]] including [[Kuwait]] and [[Khūzestān Province|Khuzestan]]. Historical figures of this movement include the pre-Ba'athist leader of Iraq [[Abd al-Karim Qasim]] and his government.
-*Iraqi [[Salafi]] [[Islamism|Islamists]], the indigenous armed followers of the Salafi movement, as well as any remnants of the [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] [[Ansar al-Islam]]: individuals with a Salafi-only policy opposed to non-Salafis though not aligned to one specific ethnic group. Though opposed to the US-led invasion, these groups are not wholly sympathetic towards the former Ba'ath Party as its members included non-Salafis.
-*[[Shi'a]] militias, including the southern, [[Iran]]-linked [[Badr Organization]], the [[Mahdi Army]], and the central-Iraq followers of [[Muqtada al-Sadr]]. These groups neither advocate the dominance of a single ethnic group, nor the traditional ideologies behind the Iraqi state (e.g. these particular Shi'as do not support the capture of Khuzestan or other border areas with Iran, but rather promote warm relations with Iran's Shi'a government).
-*Foreign Islamist volunteers, including those often linked to [[al Qaeda]] and largely driven by the Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine (the two preceding categories are often lumped as "[[jihad]]ists");
-*Possibly some [[socialist]] revolutionaries (such as the [[Iraqi Armed Revolutionary Resistance]], which claimed one attack in 2007).
-*[[Non-violent resistance]] groups and political parties (not part of the armed insurgency).
-==Casualties==
-{{See|Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003|Iraq Body Count project}}
-==Iraqi government support by Western countries==
-==See also==
-*[[Challenge Project]]
-*[[Civil war in Iraq]]
-*[[Fallujah during the Iraq War]]
-*[[List of modern conflicts in the Middle East]]
-*[[Sunni-Shia relations]]
-==References==
-{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
-{{Iraq topics}}
-{{Iraq War}}
-{{War on Terrorism}}
-{{Asia in topic|Terrorism in}}
-{{Armed Iraqi Groups in the Iraq War and the Iraq Civil War}}
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Iraqi Insurgency}}
-[[Category:Iraqi insurgency|*]]
-[[Category:2011 in Iraq]]
-[[Category:2012 in Iraq]]
-[[Category:Al-Qaeda activities in Iraq]]
-[[Category:Conflicts in 2011]]
-[[Category:Conflicts in 2012]]
-[[Category:Politics of Iraq]]
-[[Category:Religion and violence]]
-[[Category:War on Terror|War on Terrorism]]
-[[Category:Insurgencies currently ongoing]]